Week 1 in Asia

We got to go on several tours of the city our first week here. While on our "business tour" we stood on a bridge that used to be the dividing point of two cities. Now it is one city and we live in this area which is the commercial/business district with sky scrapers and all. Here's a picture of what our streets are like. I think we're getting used to crossing the streets now.

This is a picture of a street vendor that is pulled by a sad little donkey. Something that we've noticed a huge difference in our city is the HUGE increase in the amount of cars (see in the back of the picture). It makes traffic crazy and the city more crowded. Our main transportation is our 1 gear bikes. We average probably an hour of biking a day. (Yes, our bums are sore!)

We thought we would included a picture of our new home and neighborhood, pictured to the right. Just kidding! Real pictures of our home will be later. (It's a work in process right now.) This pic is actually part of the old city, or what remains. A couple years ago it was the old cities 60th year anniversary and it was given a "face lift". Therefore not much of the old city remains. Now it has many new shiny high rise buildings.

We had our first kitchen flooding this week. The washing machine is kept in our kitchen because when you do a load of laundry you have to move it to the sink and take out the tube to the sink (green tube) and put the tube of the washing machine (white tube) in a pvc drain. In the middle of laundry, the tube to drain the washing machine popped out and leaked all over the floor. We had a good inch of dirty clothes water on our floor. Now we have to fight off mold under our kitchen! We're getting the hang of things here now though.