A House???

I was sooo happy to hear from the Chamber of Commerce that they'd identified a place for me to live (that was very close to the Chamber). One of my supervisors took me over and my excitement quickly dwindled. Although I loved that it was upstairs, it was really filthy, not very stable feeling and really MUCH too too large for someone with no furnishings.

These photos don't dipict well, just how gross everthing was ... there was old food & drinks crawling with bugs littering every cabinet in the kitchen, the bathroom had congealed urine covering the floor around the toilet and we found remnants of "romantic" rendevous in the bedrooms.

After spending a full day cleaning (with the help of Jason), I was close to tears most of the time with the thought that I was going to have to live here, in a place that would never feel or look clean...and where was I to sleep? Certainly not on the 'uli (dirty) mattresses left by the previous disgusting tenants.

A couple of the "critters" who'd been making this place their home ... they are normal residents in Tongan homes and although the fact that the spider was too BIG to wash down the drain is a little scary, they were the least of my concerns in this place that I will have to live in for the next 2 years.