The house is a compound, meaning all the doors to the rooms face into a middle circle where all the socializing, cooking, washing and playing happens. Most houses from the ones I have seen are set up this way, more like a community than a row of houses. Food is prepared for everyone in the compound and everyone pulls their own to make the household complete. I still have not figured out everyone who lives at my compound, or even how they might be related. I would say there are maybe 10 doors into the rooms. And from my head I can count about 17 people plus myself currently residing here, only 2 of them being older woman taking care of the house. The children range in age from a new baby to my age. My
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