Renovators Delight

Our first week in Suva included many hours of apartment hunting. It was fun to begin with, but we quickly grew tired of looking at dilapidated apartments too far out of the city. It was really funny to see how quickly we turned from amateur apartment hunters to pro real-estate experts – if that’s any indication of how many apartments we looked at! At one point we even just parked the van and sat around waiting for a real estate agent to call to let us know whether we could view an apartment, and that was the only viewing ‘scheduled’ for that day. We also took to nicknaming the apartments as a means of entertaining ourselves in between apartments showings. There was the Asian crack den, the Colombian drug cartel villa, the ‘murder death kill’ house on account of all the hazards lying around (including exposed power points in the shower) and finally the AYAD house on account of how many past AYADs had lived there as well as the landlords fondness of Aussie volunteers. Needless to say the search continuous…