My First Home

I am now living in the "small house" or "little house" as it is called! The house is indeed small, but its the perfect size for me! I'm including some pictures in this post so you can actually see it.

From the street, you know it is my house by the bright pale green gate. Everyone here has gates to their homes - in fact, people were shocked to hear that in America, most people don't have gates and fences surrounding their front yard!I will say, it makes the parable where Jesus calls Himself the Gate make a lot more sense, since gates are so much more common here!

My Gate

Anyway, once you come through my gate, you go up a little path past the sour cherry tree (another thing to note! In Hungarian, there is a seperate word for sour cherries. It is its own fruit here! I don't like them very much, but I love the sweet cherries! Nearly everyone here has a cherry tree, so that fruit is in abundance!) and up to my front porch!

My House!

I like my little porch. I wish I had a chair for out there, but I can move my chair from inside out there if I want to. After opening the door, you walk into my living room/bedroom. There is a cabinet (I can't think of a better word, although I know there is one...) for my clothes. The couch pulls out into a bed (you store the blankets and pillows in the couch during the day), and I really like this room!

Front Room

Other View

Couch

Now its my bed!

The next room is the kitchen/dining room. I have a stove top, a refridgerator, and a sink. Then I have a shelf with a microwave, and a rolling "island" (it is very small, but you know what I mean!). There is a round table and two stools. Its the perfect size for me to fix my meals and eat in.

Kitchen

Dining Room/Kitchen

The final room is the bathroom! It has a toilet, a sink, a mirror, and a shower. I really like the light tile in it. The shower is a great size.

Bathroom!

I had to be a little ingenius with somethings. You see, the owners took out most of the furniture, but they left some random things here. For example, above my wardrobe for my clothes, there are these lounge chair cushions and some tools and things. On one of the shelves in the living room, there was a stack of nuetral-colored cushions. I didn't like where they were, and I didn't like the view above the wardrobe, so I put the cushions standing up around the cabinet top to hide everything up there.

Wardrobe (with hidey cushions) and shelves

 Its not perfect, but its better than it was! A makeshift block, but I don't mind it. I think it looks nicer than it did before, and it looks better in person. Most of the things on the shelves in the living room fit in the top cabinet (the owner had left stuff in there, so I added more). I now have these empty shelves, and one that holds a TV that doesn't work (and that I wouldn't understand anyway! Haha!), so I'm still figuring out what to do with that space. You know, its a work in progress! Anyway, I really like my "first home" and I'm very glad to be living here.

My View