Getting Settled In

Elder and Sister Schlager from Independence Missouri was asked to help us get to our new home, our car, take us shopping for food and whatever else we needed and to show us around.  They are great friends already!  We have a lot in common and are enjoying them so much.

We live in Antipolo which is up on a hill from Quezon City.  A nice half hour or so away and a little above the smog in the city.  Our home is in a subdivision that is gated with guards (with rifles) and is a jumbled mess of streets.  The homes are narrow, concrete, two story, brightly colored with gates around every home.  Hardly any yards to speak of as they are very close together.  It's considered higher middle class.  Our home has a parking spot outside the front door that barely fits our Toyota Corolla when the gate is shut and locked.

There is absolutely no storage available in this home.  just walls, tile floors, windows, counter top in kitchen with a bottom cabinet which you wouldn't want to use.  See our pictures!

A 3 bedroom home, 1 bdrm up stairs we use as a laundry room since we have no dryer and have to hang our clothes to dry.









These pictures show our upstairs hallway.  See our linen closet on the left?

 

 Here is the upstairs bathroom (which here they call the CR, for comfort room)  No vanity or shelving of any kind.

The picture to the right is our heater for the shower.  It's the only place we have warm water.  It never gets hot, just a nice warm.

This is the middle bedroom and it has a portable closet in it for me and a shoe rack.

We purchased this plastic table and chair so I could have a vanity of sorts.  It works! No extra bed here.

 This is the master bedroom with a matching portable closet and shoe rack, & plastic stool.

 The Senior Couple who lived here before us were only in their 50's and he was in construction.  He had a friend in the states that sent money to him to build some of the people here houses.  He built this king-sized bed frame (wood) and put a heavy foam pad on it...so lucky us, we have the only king-sized bed in a senior apartment!  We had to go all over though to find sheets.  They had only this design, ha ha.  The bed is very comfortable.  The small air conditioning unit is above the bed.  You only need a sheet for bedding.


Very steep stairs to climb up to the bedrooms!  We were SO sore the day after moving in!  It felt like we climbed MT. Timpanogos!

Our "pantry" or cupboards.








Our stove and microwave...to ignite the flame you need to push a button.  We about blow up the house every time.  :)  The cutlery, utensils and everything on the counter because of no drawers or cupboards.  The blue plastic container is our 5 gallon water supply we have to buy to drink and cook with.

The kitchen sink with water filter just on the left hem of the curtain.  Under those bottom cabinets is a propane gas tank for the stove and a cleaning caddy.  Kind of ugly down there.  A very small refrigerator that needs to house any food item that gets opened.  If you leave anything out without being properly sealed, it's an invitation for BUGS!
We've only seen a 2" cockroach and a centipede so far... oh and a bunch of micro-tiny crawlers in the kitchen...not too scarey yet!

This is our dish and pan cupboard!  And the half wall that separates the kitchen and the dining area.  We've lined it with our kids pictures. 







This is a little nook room just off the kitchen that we use for an office.  The rack below is just a utility room cupboard.

Our dining area and living room are connected and is what you see when you walk in the front door.  Very cheap furniture that serves us just fine!  We aren't going to be here much as we will be working long hours away from home.

Across the street from our house...

Next door to our left.

Street view from our deck off the master bedroom.  Nothing is on the deck.  Everything is very minimal.  Notice the laundry hanging in all the homes.

Nice neighborhood really.  But if any of us lived here we'd be busy adding built-ins, up-dating and up-grading.  Just outside this subdivision is poverty unspeakable.  I will share those in a later post.





The Lord has blessed us at every turn.  We can't believe we have this unbelievable opportunity!

The people here are BEAUTIFUL....and the children....oh they are exquisite!  Everyone is happy, helpful, respectful and kind.  Loving it!!!