We arrived in Karachi!

We have arrived in our new home in Karachi, but we still remember Bremerton! Here is a picture of one of the "tall ships" which visited the area for the 4th of July festivities. It is a replica of the "Bounty" and was used for the movie, "Mutiny on the Bounty". The ferry boat in the background should give an idea of how small the "tall ships" really were.


Here is the front door of our new townhouse. There are three of them in a row and an identical set of three behind ours. We have a walled garden in front and we inherited the gardener. Thank goodness! Keeping up with tropical plants will keep you jumping!


Here is the view out the master bedroom balcony. It is in front and you can see the parking area. To the right is the next townhouse. The small building on the left is the guard shack. With the heavy vegetation, you can't see the road at all.


If you have a front, you have to have a back! This is the view from the back bedroom (there are actually 3 bedrooms upstairs, kitchen, dining, living and study downstairs). Very tropical in the vegetation area! The spiral stairs on the left are the outside entrance to the servant's quarters. We haven't been in since it is locked and we have no key. No one living in it, either! Oddly, there is NO way to enter the house from the servant's quarters without going outside. In the monsoon rains, that must have been a real problem.


Here is "Simon the Cat". He came with the house. We were originally assigned a different house but we had agreed to adopt a cat and Simon refused to move. So, they moved us instead. There are a lot of cats around. They have all been spayed or neutered and they keep them to make sure there are no strays and no rats.


This is "Fountain Court" on the school campus. This is view across the walkway from Alonda's room. The campus is very good looking, but very hard to take pictures of. It was completed in 1966. The school was founded in 1953.


We have been on one quick trip shopping and tried to take some traffic pictures. With all the bumping around, this is the only good one Jim managed to take! This is an example of the decorations they do on the trucks and buses. We will put more pictures on as we get them. Pakistan is famous for the decorations. Pakistani drivers around the world like to decorate their vehicles. They don't like the newer vehicles since the plastic bodywork is hard to decorate.

More later. We are busy waiting for our shipments and getting ready to teach!