After almost an entire week of looking for an apartment here in the city, I have FINALLY found one. I was getting a bit impatient, though that’s not really that long of a time to search. I’d say it’s pretty standard to look that long, and I am pretty excited about what I’ve found. Here’s the run-down:
- Less than a five-minute walk to the bus station from which I will go to work every day. This is important because the town where I am working is 30km from the city, and the bus schedule tells me it takes 45 minutes to get there, so living this close is pretty great.
- The other auxiliary that I will be working with out at the school lives about two blocks from this place and I’ve met one of his roommates already. I already know some neighbors!
- The area is very student-oriented. While that means that walking down the streets I often hear a bit of English (which I vehemently avoid), it is young and presumably still “happening” at night, making it a safer neighborhood to walk around at all hours of the day or night.
- BIG living room with dining table, porch to dry clothes, big kitchen with a little table in there, too. Generally a great amount of space.
- Roommates. This is the big part of the search – I didn’t get to meet roommates in many of the places I visited and the three in this apartment, as we say in Spanish, Me cayeron bien, which literally means, “They fell me well” but is said to mean “I liked them.” Here we go…One is from the city of Granada, a wonderful city that I loved visiting 4 years ago and hope to get back to this year. She is working in Madrid. The other girl is from Alicante and she is studying her masters in biology-something. The third is a guy from Extremadura in the West also studying his masters in biology-something. He has a separate bathroom with his room, so the other three of us share the other bathroom, which is also fairly spacious. And we all know I am pretty low-maintenance, so I can easily share with that many people.
- I was shown how to get to the “cheaper, but still with a good quality” grocery store by the guy and the Alicante girl after stopping by today to pay my deposit, so now I know the place to go.
- One problem with the piso: It’s only on the 1.5th floor, meaning I don’t get to climb stairs regularly to get in and out of my apartment! This is a problem… I live for this. My large calves that don’t fit into most boots will thank me, but my poor little heart will miss its stair workouts.
I will give more info when I have it, but for now, just know that I am to be permanently settled on Saturday morning (or around 4am for most of you reading this, EST).
Tonight I will content myself with yogur, my favorite grocery store food in Spain for some reason, and pan with queso to prepare me for my 4-hour orientation session tomorrow afternoon!
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