mi casa

Well, I finally have a permanent home for the next cinco meses (five months)! I am really excited about that. It's nice to stop living out of a suitcase! I've taken pictures and will show you mi casa (my home).

This is the living/dining room of my flat. There is a fireplace behind the chairs too. And you can't see it very well but the painting above the fireplace is actually painted by a local painter and it's of the only bridge in Vic. It divides the city into Vic 1 and Vic 2. I can tell you more about the bridge and it's purpose when I blog about my city tour the other day. It will come soon I promise.
This is our laundry room. It consists of a single washer and a sink. The window that you see on the left leads to our dryer...

This is our state-of-the-art drying system! Hang your clothes on the line with clothes pins and let them dry. Luckily, there is a roof over top the hollow center of our building (which you can see below) so that if it rains, the clothes don't get wet again. How convenient hey. I wasn't too sure what to think when I saw this.

This is the top of our "dryer." If you look in the very top of the picture, you can see that we share our dryer with every other tenant in the building. We were wondering what happens if something falls to the bottom because we didn't see a door. Guess we will find out soon enough!

This is a picture of our kitchen. We heard that the people that lived here before us, other exchange students, didn't clean this place at all, so we all got our hands dirty and cleaned the kitchen. Oh boy did we find some interesting stuff! The most interesting was probably the bugs that we still continue to find. Our landlord doesn't speak a word of English so whenever we have something wrong, we need to find either a Catalan or fluent Spanish translator to talk to him on our behalf. It's definitely a pain.


Another picture of our kitchen. Shows the table that we don't eat at unless we are having a snack because there is only two chairs. To the left is a fridge that is very very small compared to those that we have back home! I thought the fridge that I had in residence was too small for four people's food but when I saw this, I have no idea how five of us are going to put all our food in there. So far my roommates shop for food everyday, but only buying the things they need for one meal. This is our living room. Nothing special. The balcony is in the background.

The bathroom that I share with one of the girls from Poland. Shower and bath are to the left.
This is another shot of my bedroom, side opposite of the window.
This is my bedroom! The biggest one in the flat. It looks like a double bed but if you can see down the middle, there is a rift. This bed is actually two single mattresses put together to make a double. I'm not complaining at all! But on of the mattresses sits higher than the other so it's still like I'm sleeping in a single. Oh well though. Behind you can see my desk and the window. I took these pictures at night so you wouldn't be able to see anything out the window anyway. I have posted other pictures that were taken during the day and you can see the view from the room.
This is the view from the balcony/my room because they both are on the same side of the flat. We are on the fourth floor. The street you see in the middle of the page takes you to Placa Major, a very famous plaza in Osona, a region of the province of Catalonia. Vic is the capital of Osona.
This is a view from my bedroom. This is the train station that takes you to Barcelona. Also can be seen from the balcony. This rode could be considered one that goes from one end of Vic to the other. Very busy too! Watch out crossing this street!
This is another picture from my bedroom window. You can see more buildings of Vic and in the background, the mountains. Vic sits about an hour from the coast and an hour from the mountains. So on any given day, you could go swimming in the Mediterranean Sea or go skiing in the Pyranee's Mountains.

That just about does it for my flat. I didn't take pictures of hallways or anything but our flat is really big! Could skateboard down the halls!

Until next time...