Apartment?

In the last post, I mentioned that we are looking for a place of our own. “The plan” has gone through several revisions since a month, or two ago, but we think we have settled now.

Buying the house would have proved a stress, to say the least, on our finances. Once we did the math on that, we decided to look elsewhere. One of the ideas that kind of got this whole thing going was that there are some new apartments going in that are small enough to be affordable for us.



This is an image from Google Earth of the area. The top of your screen is due North. Incidentally, this is only about two kilometers away from the camp where we met. :D

So, to sum up what is happening here: We are not sure of anything yet. We are in the process of applying for the loan, and might know about that sometime this week. In the next month they are planning to have a drawing to see who gets to choose their apartment first (the construction is nearly done on the complex, unlike in this photo).

We visited, and had a look around on Sunday afternoon, and were impressed. They aren't big apartments, but they seem pretty nice for the price we would be paying. Some of the build quality is not the greatest, either, but it would be our apartment. So reasonable renovations are possible.

My camera is broken, or I would post pictures. If this turns into reality, thought, I will see if I can borrow a camera and post some pictures.

In Teresina Again

We have arrived in Teresina safely. It was not the same as the trip there. There were no breakdowns, or stalls for police. It was still long (at 24 hours), though.

It turns out that the apartment situation did not work out, unfortunately, but we are still grateful to be back in Teresina. It is much cooler here, and not nearly as dusty, either.

We don't understand why things worked the way they did. It seemed that nothing worked out the way we heard it would. The more time we waited, the more stress we had, and we knew we had some opportunities here in Teresina.

This probably is not the long explanation some were looking for, but I am not sure how to explain everything to myself just yet.

We are, however, looking forward to the possibility of finding a place we can afford. Hopefully that will be soon, but we don't know.

Thank you all for your well wishes. Keep praying for us.

Incidentally, if you are a Google Earth user, Teresina recently got a huge boost in resolution (I just noticed). If you want to see where some of the places are that we have been, or that we frequent, I can send you the files.

We have some pictures from Parauapebas that I hope to get on the web in the next couple of days, I will make another entry for those when they are done.