Ka Dawei's House:
Dawei's street. The white house is Dawei's house. It's on a quite street next and has cemeteries on the side and back. Very few people walk on the sidewalks, at times one to three people a day will walk by.
The house was very small originally and build upon over the last 150 years.
The house has three apartments. Dawei lives on the first floor and rent's out the other two apartments.
The left edge is one side of the property. There is a garage back there but it's used for storage. The front part of the building is the entrance and is a closed porch. The main door is inside the porch. There is a second door in the back by the car used as the entrance for the first floor.
Side view of the house.
Back view. The ugly part on the back was and addition for more space creating an extra room for the first and second floors.
Back yard view. On the left is the garage which has a storage area below uses mostly for garden tools. Right now the yard is pretty ugly given 4 years of neglect while Dawei was in China.
More mess by the back entrance. The barrels and containers hold green garden and lawn waste. They are recycling bins. The green waste is put in which decays and gets put on the garden and called humus i.e. recycled leaves and waste to soil.
The cellar area (called basement). A painting bench but used for various activities.
A work bench, quite cluttered and disorganized. The downstairs is a hobby area and used for ham radio, painting, violin repair and making, decoy carving and general woodworking.
A workout weight bench.
A radio bench. These are ham radio receivers and transmitters. In America a person can get a ham license which allows a person to run a very small radio station. The bench is used for operating and repair work. The radios used are old vintage gear from the 1940's through 1960's. Due to it's age the equipment breaks frequently so needs repair often.
A large military transmitter, T-368, from World War II. The T-368 was a classic and made for continuous 24 hour operation in high temperatures like in Burma during the war. It is very well made and because of the power I can have conversations across America with other hams. My furthest contact was to Arizona on the 80 meter band which is difficult to do.
One of the violins I've made. The things hanging are roughed out necks waiting to be finished and fit to a violin body.
My first violin.
Exercise bicycle waiting for use.
Most houses have a laundry area where there is a washer and dryer. Americans usually have two machinese. One is for washing the other is for drying. This is a washer. There is also another weight bench to the left waiting for Dawei to get less lazy.
Washer, dryer and weight bench. There are water heaters to the right. These are tanks that hold water. The water is heated with gas and available for showers and washing dishes and clothes. Behind the coats is a gas house heater. The heater is in the basement and heats hot water which is pumped through out the house to radiators like in Beijing.
One side of the house showing the jungle of a yard, overgorwn by 4 years absence.
More jungle.
Fallen tree in the back.
Yard in back of the garage all a mess.
Looking directly in back of the house. In back of the property is a cemetery. The house sits on a hill so gets a good breeze most of the day.
Neighbors house, across the street.
