The apartment in Chennai - Part 3

This is the kitchen. The little gas range is not bad but I have never cooked with gas before. There are no gas lines to the apartment, there is a little propane tank underneath that Tom has to take to some place where they refill it. I'm not sure how often that has to be done since I only just got here 2 days ago.

There is no dishwasher, everything has to be washed by hand. The part of that I don't like is that there isn't a hot water heater in the apartment so the water from the tap is lukewarm and that is the water used to wash dishes. It is not practical to boil water to wash dishes so I just scrub them repeatedly with soap in hopes that any germs just go away.

There is also a severe ant problem so we have to be very careful to make sure that there are no food particles left anywhere or the ants just go crazy. The other day I left my laptop on the dining table and when I came back to it, the ants were all over my laptop. Even a small crumb of anything will bring the ants in droves and apparently there isn't anything to be done about it.