We first stayed in housing with our school but they only had room for us for 3 weeks, so with the help of our teachers, we would walk the streets close to school during class time and see if we could find an apartment to rent.

Around the corner from the school we saw this gate with a “for rent” sign.

Rony (Don’s teacher) got on his cell phone, called the number and made arrangements for us to see the apartment. Walking through the gate the next morning with our teachers and the land lady, this is the view we saw.

Our “apartamento” is the one in back on the second floor on the right.

After living for 10 months in Mexico City in a room that was 10′ x 12′, the apartment seemed huge! It came with minimal furniture but for us it was perfect.

Don and I bought two folding tables that we use as desks in the second bedroom. I bought some Mayan designed fabric as “table cloths” in a fabric store. I also purchased hand woven Mayan fabric pieces from a woman named Maria who comes to our school each week to sell her indigenous tapestries. These hang above our desks.

Not a lot of room for company, because we only have two chairs in our little living room (sala)! It’s tiny but cute.

Our kitchen is tiny, with a little “camp” sized cooktop hooked up to a propane tank out that side door to our little patio.

All apartments and homes have a patio of some sort for washing clothes and hanging them up to dry.  I use this a lot to hand wash clothes I don’t want going to the lavanderia.  There’s a translucent covering and it opens to a light shaft.

All in all, we love our new little casa!