12 Inches Away

See the white building in the middle? That's where I'm working right now. The picture is kinda old though, because it's from before we moved in. Now, we have our school sign up, a porch, etc. so it looks nicer. See the house with the red roof next to our building? It's not part of our building...yes, as hard as it may be to believe, they are our neighbors! Just a whopping 12 inches away at that.





The first time I peered to the side of our building (it's actually a regular 4bdrm house), I was surprised how *close* the next door neighbors were! Sure, I can manage to squeeze in if I wanted to, but it's a real tight fit.

It might be hard to believe, because even I have a hard time believing it, but there are houses and other buildings that are even CLOSER together than this! In the older parts of town, like where I'm working at, houses can be something like 3 inches away! Can you believe that?! When I come across homes like that, I stand and wonder to myself, how do they fix the walls if it needs to be repaired? No one can fit in between, so how do they do it? Maybe the only way to ever fix your house is to tear it all down and rebuild it.

The wood panel in the picture, it came flying at us during last year's typhoon. I think it came from the neighbors house across from our school, but since we didn't take it back right away, it just got to be too akward to return it, so it's still sitting here. And the shoe, I just put it there hoping people could get a feel for how close the neighbors were. Speaking of shoes, I need to get a new pair because this one is starting to tear.