pictures from our pad

Wiring in our kitchen. Cousin Mike: how would this score on your home inspection?
An additional note on our wiring: plugs in the Middle East are supposed to be European. However, in our apartment alone we have European, African, and North American outlets, in addition to some that we can't place. This means that our vacuum only plugs into the living room, the toothbrush only plugs into the bedroom, and the tv has to be taped into an outlet to function.

This is our "new" washing machine. How does this work, you ask? Well, we fill up the left half with buckets of water from our kitchen sink, along with the clothes and soap. After it mixes everything together, we rinse the soap out of the clothes in the kitchen sink, and then put them in the right half of the machine to spin. The right half only holds about a third of what the left half holds, so the spinning part takes a few cycles. Unfortunately this beast still lacks a connection to the drain, so for now it's just a nice object d'art for our kitchen.

A note from Nate on this post: Morgan wouldn't know how this really worked unless it were for my detailed explanations, as I'm the only one who does laundry here. We have to use the washing machine in the boys' dorm (as ours doesn't actually work), and Morgan's not allowed up there (lucky for her).