Day ? - 10/??/10 - My apartment

          It feels so great to finally have my own place. About 4 hours ago Ana and I arrived at my apartment with all of my things. I showed Ana the apartment and she liked it just as much as I did. It really is perfect for one person. The only thing that it is missing is a balcony, but you can’t have everything.

          When you walk in the door, which has 5 dead bolts by the way so I feel plenty safe, the first thing you notice is that the ceiling slopes from about halfway down the ceiling to one of the walls where it stands just about 2 feet above the ground. It gives the place some character. On that slanted ceiling are two big windows that open upward rather than from side to side, does that make sense? Well, they’re nice. From those windows I can see the old castle of the town that sits on a small mountainside, the new church, the old church, and a bunch of other apartments and buildings. I just realized too that the Sun shines from behind my building, so I can see the shadow of the clothes that are hanging to dry of whoever has the terrace on top of the building, and these clothes include granny panties! Hahaha. Some immaturity to brighten up your day. Back to the apartment. On the slanted ceiling half of the apartment is my bed, my bedside stands, the TV across the room in the corner, two couches, and some furniture with storage space. Majority of the apartment is one big open room, so my bedroom, the TV room and the kitchen are all in one big area.  The wall behind my bed is painted with big, thick, vertical stripes the colors of brown and cream. It sounds ugly, but actually looks nice. Most of the rest of the walls in the house are cream colored and the ceilings are white. On the regular ceiling side of the apartment are the kitchen, the bathroom, and a room. The room is obviously supposed to be the bedroom, but instead it has been made into one big walk-in closet, basically. There are three closets that go from floor to ceiling and a piece of furniture with drawers. I have plenty of space to put my clothes, and I could have my own little fashion show if I really wanted to because the mirror is right smack in the middle and is almost from floor to ceiling as well. I don’t know about you, but that’s the biggest “closet” I’ve ever been in, and the only one I’ve ever been in that has a window. The bathroom is kind of small, well at least for American standards, but it’s plenty of room for one person. The bottom half of the wall tiles are blue, and so is the floor, and the top half of the wall tiles are white, and so is the ceiling. It’s cute.

            I’ve already begun the process of adding my own touch to a few things, and by a few, I really do mean not many. I have to go buy sheets, a comforter, bathroom and kitchen basics, and over the next few weeks I’ll buy neat little accessories for the furniture and one bare wall that looks way too boring.

            Like I said, it’s great to have my own place, but I am going to miss Ana’s house. That house was seriously amazing. You can kind of tell by the pictures from one of my earlier blogs, but the pictures don’t really do it justice. I hadn’t taken a picture of the room I was staying in out of respect, because a bedroom can be very private, but as I was leaving I couldn’t help taking a picture of the room I stayed in for the two weeks of my welcoming and introduction to what is going to be my new life for the next several months. I will see Ana and Nora at school, but I didn’t get to say goodbye to Pablo. Hopefully he will invite me to his birthday party Halloween weekend (which happens to be the same day as my dad’s)  J