Getting Settled

The Apartment
We live in an apartment that is built on top of a house belonging to an Indian family. It is a newly built house, very nice in a quiet area, five minutes walk from the shala. You walk up a staircase on the side of the house. It has a fairly big living room, a kitchen, one bedroom, a nice bathroom (after we cleaned it) and a lovely terass! The house is on a hillslope, so it's quite high up, which gives us a wonderfull view! We can see Chamundi Hill from our terrace.
There had only lived one person there before, a Chinese woman, but the place was soo dirty that we had to scrubb tthe place despite that an Indian cleaning lady had cleaned the place bofore! We decided to do our own cleaning. The Indian cleaning is not what we Swedes would consider clean! But, if I can get used to the hard bed, or eventually buy another mattress, I think I will enjoy living here.