The house we live in is great

This is how I feel about our house

This is not our house

These are not our houses either. These tall town houses are common here. I lived in one in my first year in Cambodia.

This is also not our house

Again, not our house, but gives you an idea of what many people live and work in. These are some old tall long houses.

And these are some new ones, they are springing up all around us, like grass in rainy season.

Again, this is not our house

We're really enjoying living in the house we're renting at the moment. My first house in Cambodia didn't have much natural light or air flow, in fact my bedroom didn't have any. Many houses here tall, long town houses. Everything seems squashed together so many rooms don't have external windows, which I find weird. My first bedroom in Cambodia did have one external window, but the next building was close enough for me to touch. So it was very hot and dark and depressing at home. In contrast the duplex on the Bible school campus and huge external windows with big eaves. So the light and air can come in, but the eaves keep out a lot of direct sunlight so its not as hot as it would be otherwise.

Also, as our house is new its seems the rats and cockroaches haven't found it yet (no rats inside, only a few cockroaches). We've mostly only had friendly visitors such as the many geckos, and a few frogs who we named Jeremy. We do have lots of ants though, and there was one snake. Kimsoeun bashed it to death with the broom handle.

Our rent is fairly cheap, and hasn't gone up over the last 5 years. And we haven't had to move- for both of us its the longest time in an adult life we have lived in one place continually, and we probably won't beat that record anytime soon.  Plus although the flood waters have surrounded our house, they haven't come in- very glad about that.

I was just writing our November Kronicle email, as some of you will see when I send it on Monday there is a short version of this there. Trying to post house pictures...not really working....