Bungalow life and island life correlate to each other in the matter of simplicity. It’s as easy as stating everything here is simply just, simple. Our days come as easily as riding the tides and moving with the current.
The bungalow is simple.
You walk up the semi-rusted steps onto the balcony, you take your shoes off and open the door. Straight ahead is the bed, directly to the right is our “kitchen” area and next to that is our bathroom. Along the wall is a big dresser closet that holds our clothing. We have a nightstand, a fan, a tv stand sans the TV and we are surrounded by 9 tall windows, not including the little one in the kitchen and the little one in the bathroom. We have a ceiling fan which we still aren’t sure if it’s even helping and we have a floor fan, which is our knight in shining armor.
The kitchen is petite and I’m still not positive if it is worthy of being called a kitchen. It has a mini fridge and a leaky sink. We bought a water boiler, which I will assume you understand the uses out of that. We’re in the process of buying a hot plate/ electric grill so we can eat out less. We have cereal, PB&J, bread, Nutella, cup of noodles, and trail mix to snack on. The dishes are always clean, except when mike finishes using one and I’m not around. (Don’t worry babe, I’m not complaining-just explaining)
Our bungalow bathroom is different than any bathroom I’ve seen in the western culture. It compares in the fact that we have a sink, shower, and toilet yet the way to use these utilities differs pretty interestingly. It’s all just all so simple. The toilet is a bowl, essentially a toilet bowl. It brings on the true meaning of “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down” next to the toilet bowl is a faucet, with a bucket underneath.
To use:
Step 1: do your business
Step 2: if it’s yellow, let it mellow.
Step 3. If it’s brown continue to step 4
Step 4: turn on faucet and fill bucket with water, turn off faucet.
Step 5: after completing your business, take bucket and pour into toilet until everything has “flushed”
And there you have it crowd, in just 5 simple steps, you now know how to flush a toilet by yourself! Cheers!
On the other side of the toilet is one of those things you get to rinse your bum hole with, not mandatory.
We have a sink, with one little stand on top for our toothbrushes and deodorant and a little round mirror.
The shower is just a shower head with a nob, it also has another box where we can adjust the heat, but living where we live, we look forward to our evening cold shower together (save water, shower together!)
The shower head is adjacent but a little to the right of the toilet. No walls, no boundaries. A little drain sits in the corner.
Our bed is equally as hard as sleeping on the floor. We sleep on a sheet, with another sheet sometimes on top of us, sometimes between us, sometimes crumpled where ever it ends up in our tossing and turning of our hot uncomfortable slumbers. But somehow every morning we wake up between 6:30-8, ready to take on the day.
There’s little baby lizards running around our walls, we’ve found one cockroach prancing around our kitchen, and there’s spiders under the kitchen sink. Good thing I’ve got Mike to kick out all my unwelcome visitors.
Welcome to the Island life, as simple as it gets, and as easy as it comes.
Scuba Sex Sunshine 
I actually laughed out loud, at the wash your bum part. Lol. Lol..
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You had me till lizards, spiders and roaches…eeewww!!!
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Beats my place on my first overseas assignment! You at least have a bowel ….indoors yet. And aren’t sharing your digs with a horde of camel spiders about the size of cats lol. The place sounds great, and trust me you’ll both get use to sleeping in the heat. All the best!
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:o) Like your Mother, you had me too until the lizards and spiders!! Your place is beautiful and just perfect for the two of you. Be nicer when you can actually start cooking for yourselves. Where do you shop – out door places or do they have indoor grocery stores? Do they have western foods at all – is that where you bought the peanut butter and nutella? So interesting – thank you Cassie. ❤ SO happy you got the stitches out – did the Dr say it was doing well? Can you go into the water now? Can you buy a 5000 watt AC there? Love Nana Marsh
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