New Living Quarters!

For the past month or two I have been trying to move from the B Hut to an RLB.  I lived in the B Hut for over 4 months.  The small, smelly, leaky, plywood structure was about a 15 minute walk to work.  Imagine 8 guys sharing a building the size of a storage shed.  The building had no insulation – if it was cold outside, it was cold inside.  Every time it rained I got wet.  Every time I had to use the bathroom, I got the pleasure of using the porta-johns.  I could stretch my legs out and touch both walls. 

My living conditions now are better.  Last Tuesday I got the chance to move to an RLB, or re-locatable building, much closer to the office.  The building is actually a shipping container.  As the war kicked off over 10 years ago the Government started shipping massive amounts of supply over here thru metal shipping containers.  The room I live in now once housed massive amount of supply trucked by a semi-trailer in the States, to the shipping and loading dock, then over the ocean on a barge.  Rather than sending the containers back, the Government decided to make living containers from them. 

The room I live in is actually 2 containers which were cut in half and adjoined to make for 3 rooms and a “common area”.  We live in a whole “neighborhood” full of used shipping containers.  Before, I had 7 roommates.  Now, I only have 2 others: 1 Army guy and 1 Navy guy.  We have a window unit which helps us keep cool at night.  The bathroom is only a 30 second walk outside, and it’s not a porta-potty!  I have a sheet that separates me from my roommates and adds a little privacy.  Life is great. 

Here is a picture of me standing in my new room

Here is a shot of our common area. 

Here is a shot of our front door