Welcome to Laxmii Bazaar! - January 12, 2010 -- where I live

I have a home in Nepal!! We were supposed to move in on Sunday (10th) but the house wasn't ready yet, so we (me, Caitlin, Amy and Kirsten, my housemates) weren't able to actually move in until Tuesday (12th). We'd been staying up in Gorkha, a town about 10 mins by bus, since Sunday. Don't bother trying to find Laxmi Bazaar on a map, it can't be done. I tried many times before leaving Canada. Gorkha is there though, and Lazmi Bazaar is about 4km south. The only internet is up in Gorkha, so I go there fairly often.
The house is tiny but we love it. There are five rooms including the bathroom, two of which are bedrooms, one kitchen and a living room. Everything is painted pink, which will take some getting used to, as I am not usually a fan of pink. Furniture wise it is pretty spartan, but we do have a table in both the kitchen and living room, and four chairs to go with each. There is no hot water, so it is either a cold shower or a bucket bath. So far I've opted for the bucket bath. We don't have an actual toilet, but what is known as an Asian squat toilet. It's essentially a porcelain hole in the ground. We even have to burn our toilet paper!
The stove is gas powered, which is nice because we experience power cuts many times daily. The only thing we need for cooking that takes power is the rice cooker, but it is possible to cook rice on the stove (I don't do this, because I have a bad history with rice turning out horribly when I attempt it on the stove). All our water needs to be boiled for 5 mins before we can use it, so the stove is on pretty much non-stop while people are home.
The best part of the house by far is the roof. We have a 360 degree view from it, which includes the valley and Gorkha on the other side, with Himalayas on the other side of Gorkha. On the other side is more valley with forests and farms. It is gorgeous, I'm hoping to get some pictures of it up on here soon. On clear days we can see very far, including the sunset over the moutains, which we try to watch most afternoons (mostly because the roof in the sun is a wonderful place to relax). It's been foggy a few days though -- we tend to wake up with the house enveloped in fog, but its usually gone pretty quickly. On rare occasions the fog lasts until late in the afternoon, which it did twice last week. My school, which is about 2.5km down from the house, is enveloped in fog every morning. Its actually quite fun to walk down into a cloud!
That's all I have time for now, so I'll talk about my school next time!