One of our local friends graciously offered his house on a plantain farm for free until we finish building our house (gift-economy at work!). When he told us that some things need fixing, we didn’t take him that seriously.

We started the process of move-in and thus began a series of fixer upper tasks : fixing a leaking roof, covering the windows with mosquito nets, cleaning a ton of dust, changing a wash basin, repainting the kitchen, fixing the ceiling fan that thinks it’s a helicopter,  installing a bamboo  gate to prevent Aum from running into  the backyard well, changing light bulbs of course and so on. Our friend pitched in with all he can just to get us going.