Photos of Mehpara's home (my home during training, Oct thru mid-Dec)

Okay - here are some photos of the home I stayed at in Corat (pronounced Jorat) during training. It belongs to Mehpara and her two teenage kids, Nigar and Iosef. The blue doors are the front doors, and my room was behind the windows to the right. The living room was behind the windows to the left. The table outside the windows is where they cleaned and cut fruits and veggies:

This is the living room, seen from standing in the doorway to my room. It has a TV set, a VCR and a table. That's all. This is where they have meals, see guests, watch TV, etc. There's one table just to the right of the door where I was standing - that's where I ate (they sat on the floor in the middle of the room) and where the teenage girl studied:

This is the table I ate at. The picture is taken from beside the TV set:

 

Here's my room, taken from the doorway:

My room, taken from by the bed:

 

This is my desk, between the two photos above - the tall silver thing is the water filter the PCorps gives each of us:

Here's the the yard outside the house - those are pomegranate trees:

Here's the entrance to the shower/laundry room. The well where I brushed my teeth is in the foreground:

Here's the toilet. From the photo above, it's to the left of the well. The only thing in there that you can't see is a hose. The "toilet" is the hole in the floor in the middle of the picture.

Here's the entrance to the kitchen. It's to the left of the front of the house:

Inside the kitchen:

The gas stove in the kitchen (two burners worked; the oven didn't):

And the refrigerator. It worked:

And here's the entrance to her yard. The pomegranate trees are to the right, the toilet is just beyond the trees, the shower/laundry room is to the right behind the trees, and the front door to the house is behind me:

I have a bunch more pictures, but nothing really different. No people - I took these one day when only the daughter was home. She was taking her weekly shower, so I couldn't get a shot of the inside of that room. It's a stone cave with a faucet, a stone bench along one wall and a couple of buckets. That's all.