For our independent, unstructured month of either internship or research project, 12 of the students decided to live together. We contacted a real estate agent to look at houses, and I felt like I was on a reality tv show. The houses we looked at were all in the Senior Quarters area of Gulu, which kind of feels like the suburbs. It's close to town, but it used to be where colonial administrators lived. The houses are big, fenced in and generally beautiful. We looked at a range of accommodations some had stoves, some didn't, some had toilets, latrines, pit latrines, but only two had green spaces (which is pretty key for me). Costs varied a lot too, with asking prices starting at 600,000 sh/ month to 2 million sh. ($300-800).
Of course, we settled on the most expensive (and biggest and most beautiful), but when you split it 12 ways it was still pretty cheap. It's actually not that crowded- 3 boys live in the extra house, 2 people live in huge closets, 2 doubles and 1 triple in the big house. It's college life in Uganda.
I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS HOUSE. It's huge and beautiful.
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| Kitchen, gas stove |
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| tire swing! |
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| Another tire swing! |
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| Resident Chickens |
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| Side yard |
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| Guava tree! |
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| My mess of a room |
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| key feature- star on the ceiling |
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| Like our Acholi families taught us, no shoes in the house |
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| orange trees! |
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| back porch |
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| said toilet |
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| water heater! |
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| earopean shower, but the pressure's so bad that we bucket shower anyway |
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| living room |
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| sunroom! |
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| what we call the Boys Quarters (2 rooms, one bath) |
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| Front yard |
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| giant grasshoppers that get everywhere :) |
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