our apartment

So once our program director, Gabriel, arrived we were relieved to find that our apartment had an elevator. Our over 250 pounds of luggage collectively was not going to make it to the sixth floor without one.  Gabriel managed to fit all of our luggage in this tiny elevator and asked us to come in. I was pretty convinced the elevator cable was going to snap.

Somehow we made it and struggled to take our luggage out all while Gabriel attempted to teach me how to open the door. Eventually he gave up and had dorene try it .  Our key end? (not sure what you call the key part of the key, not the top part where the 

keychain goes) is basically a circle.  He told us that these type of keys cannot be duplicated so if we lost one we would have to pay to replace the whole lock, which would cost 800 euros. Imagine my paranoia.

As Gabriel put it,  “our apartment is like a 5 star hotel”, kinda. It’s been remodeled inside so it feels pretty new.

Our bathroom is completely new, very modern and unparis like. We have a normal shower with a normal shower head, no tub or needing to hold the shower head up sort of thing. We also have a modern “waterfall” faucet and sink. 

Our kitchen is very modern as well, brand new refrigerator, oven, sink and dishwasher. It’s very small though, but it does the job.

 Our living room area has a nice suede white couch (I put an airline blanket on one side of it so I could sit on it),  a very low to the ground black table, a white and black rug and a little 12 inch cube looking tv with cable apparently.

In the hallway looking sort of thing they’ve built in a wall cabinet. This is where our closets are. We’re not done packing yet but we’ve hung up what needs to be hung, and designated a shoe closet near the door so it’s starting to feel a bit more like home.

Now for our bedroom, as Gabriel was opening the door he asked if we had met each other before today and we said yes, and he said good. Soon we found out why he asked that question…we’re sharing a bed. So our bedroom has this like modern for france wall cabinet thing built so only a full size bed fits in the bedroom. Two twins beds, what we told we were going to get, can’t fit.

Gabriel felt like he came to the rescue though by giving us three options. He said we could sleep together in the same bed, or one of us could sleep on the couch in the living room, or he could remove the couch and add a bed in the living room instead. The living room has this sliding door thing that can make the living room into a separate room. Just go with me. For now we’ve decided to try to sleep together and see how it goes.

Wish us luck, we need it.