Seriously.
We have three rooms: a big front room, a kitchen, and a bedroom. The bedroom is about the size of a north quad dorm room, and contains the shrine/altar, closets for clothes and blankets, and two bed for amala and pala. It also has a tv.
The kitchen, though skinny, is probably 8 feet long, with two gas burners, a sink, and six feet of counter space. We also have a fridge (a total luxury here) that is about four feet high.
The main room functions as the living room, kitchen table, and bedroom for me and Dawa. There are two beds that serve as couches during the day, then an actual couch and two chairs, with a table in the middle. Everyone eats breakfast and dinner around the table. There is a flat screen tv on the wall (not made by sharp, dad) across from the actual couch ( the one that no one sleeps on)-I told you it was a mansion.
There is also a covered balcony, which I use to read and drink tea, and access to a pretty big roof, both of which look out over the valley and the mountains. We have our own bathroom just outside the front door with flushing squat toilet (a great invention), a washing machine (greater invention), and a geezer, the greatest invention known to man, woman, dog, or cold blooded creature. A geezer, in addition to being a nickname for an old fogey, heats water. So you can take a hot shower. Whenever you want. That's right, hot water comes out from above my head just fifteen minutes after I flip the switch! Lap of luxury.
Contrast this with Liz's apartment, which is literally twenty feet and two seconds away. She lives in an 8 by 8 concrete box with a tin roof, no sink, no fridge. Pretty much all that's in the room are two beds, a table, and a huge shrine that takes up half the wall. Her bathroom is downstairs, lacks ventilation, and I think she shares with the entire building. There is no shelf space. Julia has two rooms, and many shelves, but one room has almost no floor space as it is occupied by three beds and a table. She has a big front kitchen, but doesn't have a shower as far as I could tell. Like any place to shower.
In conclusion, I love geezers.
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