Apartment

Now that I have lived in Germany for 5 months and have been in my apartment for about 3 ½ months it is time to show it off.  Ok its nothing special but it works.  I live in an apartment complex that has three other apartments.  On my floor is an older gentleman from Poland.  He is in the same situation as me.  His family and friends are in Poland but the work is here.  The only difference is he told me that in a few months he is going to Singapore for a year.  The apartment above me is occupied by a single mom and her 15 year old daughter.  They are all nice but we don’t see each other but maybe once a week if we are leaving at the same time.  So the apartment is about 310 square feet based on me pacing it off and not counting the coat closet.  The main room when you come in from the common entrance is the kitchen/dinning room/living room.

The kitchen has a two cook top burners, a sink, a college dorm room size refrigerator, and a toaster oven.  Everything works but it took some time getting use to.  The refrigerator doesn’t have a freezer in it but I have learned that if I put things to the back and on the bottom they will actually freeze.

The living area is nice now that I negotiated a larger TV.  I have this set up so I can watch movies through it.  It also has a door that goes out to a deck that it nice.

The bed room bed is ok.  I did bring some sheets and blankets from back home.  The ones that were on it and normal for Germany were a couple of inches short all the way around.  Closet space is limited but I added a few storage boxes to help out in that area.

The bathroom is nice.  It has everything that you would need.  It is also where the washer is located.  The washers in Germany are a bit different than in the USA.  They run a lot longer,  the shortest wash I have found has been about 40 minutes with the normal one for cotton is 1 hour and 30 minutes.  They don’t have dryers so everything is line dried.  This took a little getting use to, you just have to plan better and don’t think you’re going to wash something and wear it that day.  

The nice thing is it is only 10 minutes to get to work and the shopping area is close by too.  It has some nice area to go walking.