Living in a house with 9 others is a lot of fun. It's a bit like living at home with my five brothers and sisters the adventures fun and silly things we do, only different. We all have lots of fun together and get along (well you would hope so seeing as we do work, eat and sleep and do whatever else we do together). The house has five different levels, meaning that we have 4 flights of stairs and as my bedroom is right at the top, I have to climb those stairs quite regularly. Lots of fun when you forget something as I have a tendency to do.
Yesterday afternoon we made our way home from work in a rain storm and were greeted with a flooded bedroom. That's right, the top floor of our house had flooded. After the panic to ensure that all our valuables and electronics were safe and sound we had lots of fun unplugging the drain on the balcony and cleaning up the mess that was made. I made sure I took out my camera just so that I could document our adventure with water.
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| Ahhh! Our room when I saw it first. My mattress had been put up against the wall, but that big puddle you see is were my bed is supposed to be |
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| The flooded balcony and the water lapping in... The water on the balcony was about 20cm deep, fortunately there is a step into our room |
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| Lizzie and Julia our long term volunteers sorting out the issue |
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| Mopping up the mess... only one of four mattresses stayed dry |
So yeah, that was one of the many adventures that we have while living here in Sirin house. Others include making peanut butter (because we are such poor volunteers and peanut butter is so expensive), having tea tasting tests (Aussie vs. British), sliding down the stairs and playing games. If your lucky you might get to hear of more.
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| The view from the top balcony... I just thought I'll include a picture of our street. Our house looks pretty much the same |
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