Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Alley


This is a picture of the alley next to our apartments. The writing on the wall roughly tranliterates to "safwad," which is the name of the apartment manager. I'm pretty sure he painted it up there at some point.

The walls are all very high because the buildings are built into the side of the mountains, so even from what was the ground where I stood, I would take a picture up and just barely get the ground where I was aiming the camera. From the third floor of our building, you could look one direction and be even with the garage of the building next door. From the roof, you were even with the forth floor of one building next door and the first floor of the one in the other direction.

The boxes on the left are the ones on our building. Technically, those are the air conditioning boxes, but the chance of your apartment having working air conditioning was about half. Sometimes though, actually most of the time, it'd be hot enough that if you turned it on they'd start dripping from the temperature difference. That was always weird to get water dripping on your head as you walked out of the building, keeping in mind that it doesn't ever rain in the summer there, and that we literally didn't see a single cloud the entire time. There's just not enough humidity.

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