Villa 270

In previous years, the thought of compound life was anything but postive. We figured living on a compound would be suffocating and imprisoning, but we have found compound life to be amazing. We've only been here for a couple days, but have realized that life here is easy and convienant. (Just an example, we noticed a garbage truck driving around the other day and when we asked about it, we were told that trash gets picked up daily from your carport for free.)

Our villa is located near the entrance of the compound. Across from our villa are the compound offices and shopping mall. The mall incluleds a grocery store, dry cleaners, travel agency, spa, and gift shop.  A block down from us, on the same street, is the restaurant, recreation center, and pools. The restaurant offers a variety of choices as well as weekly theme nights. The reaturant also houses an ice cream parlor. We've spent the last couple nights in the rec center. When we can't sleep, we find ourselves down there. The fitness equipment is new and very well taken care of. There are six treadmills, each having their own flat screens attached. The workout room also includes ellipticals, spinning bikes, stair steppers, row machines, weight machines, and a yoga room. The recreation center also includes indoor raquetball, squash and basketball courts, hot tubs, steam and sauna rooms, and a game room with pool tables and foosball. There are two outdoor pools with diving boards and lap lanes as well as a kiddie pool and hot tub. I think we'll find it difficult to be bored here.

Here are some pics of our villa. The villas come with a TON of furniture. We'll have to figure out what we want to do in regards to painting and decorating. As soon as we have our house in order, I'll post more pictures.

Our kitchen is rather large with new "American size" appliances

 

Laundry room

Dining room



Living room and front door

Guest bedroom
(Our room is a mess, so I'll take pictures later)



The school provides us with a KIA Sportage while we're here.

The entrance to our house.
(Not sure why this picture looks stretched out)

Our carport

Our front porch

Entrance and exit gates
(This is actually the third gate and secuirty station you
have to go through in order to get onto the compound)

Looking down our street.
Restaurant, recreation center,
shopping mall and offices are on the right.

Few from our backdoor

**just unlocked a door in the kitchen and was surprised to find a walk-in pantry. It's huge! I'll post a picture once we get it stocked.