1 Week break in Mid-term

This week I've been catching up on mountains of old and new paperwork and settling in our new house/room. We decided that the room was way too small and we needed another, fortunately the rooms on either side of us are empty... unfortunately apparently they have been claimed. So, it's still one small room for cooking, sleeping, working, everything!

I have some great pictures coming of m cooking and washing African style, something Simon thought was highly amusing until I told him that whoever cooks doesn't do the dishes and that he was going to be washing his own clothes!

He said, "But Emily, that's not African tradition! Men don't do those jobs!"
I said, "Too bad for tradition, it's that or nothing!"

He has done the dishes 3 times now and he spent all morning wahing his own clothes! No washing machines here and certainly no wifely slaves!

It's common to wash clothes and dishes outside, Simon insists on hiding inside to wash the dishes and he goes away from all the other women in our little complex when washing his clothes!

Simon already knows that I never iron!!!