The other Senior couple spent many long hours making our apartment a comfortable, homey place. They did a great job and we love it. And yes, it is on the 4th floor. The arrow points to our living room window.
Climbing up all those stairs several times a day helps us get our daily exercise. Hermana Malpica lives directly below us. Almost every time we come home, George says, “If we lived in her house, we’d be home.” Our Apple Watches have alerted us that the numbers of ‘flights climbed’ over the last few months has increased significantly. No joke!
An interesting thing to note on stairs here is that some stairs as you turn the corner are triangles and others are squares. And it isn’t consistent. For a few days the lights on our stairs were not working and I held on as I made my way up and down. Don’t want to misjudge, thinking it is a square step and be surprised with the cut off.
Another interesting thing about apartment here is the security. We have two keys, one to let us in the locked common area before the stairs and another to get us in our apartment. Here is lock #1.
We have heard of missionaries getting locked out of their apartment but also locked in the apartment outside area. You would just hope you have your cell phone so someone can be called to rescue you.
On the first floor of our apartment is a living/dining room, laundry room, a kitchen, Elder Lewis’s office, and a cute little under stair bathroom/luggage storage area
Upstairs there are two bedrooms, one of which is my ‘office’, and a bathroom. The only hot water in the entire house is in the shower. None of the elders and most of the sisters don’t have the luxury of hot water. We did just get permission to put instant hot water heaters in the showers in all the sister’s houses. They are thrilled with that news.
Here’s the view from our front windows.
I have been amazed at how quickly a foreign place can feel like HOME. And our little corner of Piura definitely does.
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