Where I Live!

The addition Elena build behind her house

My room...notice the hydrocortisone on the bed! (it is essential!)

Elena is housing five girls from UMD, and we are the first to stay in this new addition she build in the back of her house.  There are four bedroom, and a bathroom in the cement structure. Haley sleeps in a bedroom inside the house.  There as about a foot of space that is open and not sealed off beneath the ceiling, so lot of bug get in! The first week I was completely COVERED in bug bites. Everywhere I went people were asking me what I had been doing to get so many bites.  Elena thought it was funny and just kept telling me that I had sweet blood. It is sort of a cool to sleep here because it feels like I am sleeping outside, but I would like it more if I didn't get so many bites!

There is a tin roof, so when it rains it is the LOUDEST thing ever! Animals and birds run across it too which can be really startling!

Last week when we all went to Placencia Elena surprised us and put flooring down in each of our rooms.  This is really nice because the concrete got everything really powdery! The flooring reminds me of the rolls of sticking stuff you buy to line the inside of your kitchen cupboards!

Just recently I have been sleeping in the house. Haley is letting me share her bed with her to get away from the bugs.Two night ago we were just laying in bed awake talking and she started saying she felt something moving or crawling.  We were using her cell phone as a light to search for what it was. Finally I got up and turned on the light.  We would we had been sharing the bed with a cockroach!!