Our House

This is our house looking from the back. The people who lived in the house before us put a lot of work into the yard. They essentially did everything - planting, landscaping, etc. Well, them and our amazing gardener - Harrison who also worked for them before us. Right now we have two mango trees, an orange tree, an avocado tree, two passion fruit vines, and a garden that includes maize (of course), sweet potato, carrots, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, cucumber, hot peppers, different types of herbs and tomatoes. You gotta love a year round growing season! Look at that sweet RAV4!



This is a view looking from the side of the house to the back yard.



This is our staff quarters. Often staff will live in staff quarters like this with their families. We use ours for storage and for our staff to cook (we provide them with maize and tea) and put their things.



We had to give a try at growing some maize. Don't tell, but we're actually not too fond of Nsima (the main maize dish). You pretty much need to use fertilizer to grow maize in Malawi, which causes a lot of problems to the soil and it is very expensive (most can't afford it, so the government subsidizes).



This is a view of our front yard.



Lots of nice flowers.



This is our living room. A very minimilist strategy seeing as though the costs of things our here!



View to our front porch.



Our Kitchen, which houses most of our insect populations. We had at one point big ants, medium ants and cockroaches. We then sprayed to try to get rid of them. It worked! However like the drug trade, you get rid of one infestation and another takes its place - we now have little ants that have taken over as our kitchen mafia. Oh, and there are still many cockroaches.



Our roomate Heather and Vii - both also work for WUSC.



View from our kitchen door to the outside.



Our favorite place to sit and drink Malawi gin and tonics, to have Braiis, or to practice up on our Scrabble skills.