Our New Home

Sorry it's been a couple days since we've done a post... Things got pretty busy once we started our Swedish classes and orientation kicked into high gear. It took a lot of ambition to even think about posting about all the things that have happened here since Wednesday. And after thinking about it for a long time, I decided to wait until tomorrow. Today, instead, I will do a post with pictures of our new apartment. I've been meaning to do it for a while now. I figure then it's a win-win situation. Everyone can see where we are living now, and I don't have to put too much effort in today. Haha. Well, here ya go... (Keep in mind, these pictures are from the first day we moved in so everything is pretty bare.)

This is the outside of our apartment building. We live to the very left on the 6th floor:



Our floor's hallway:



When you walk into our apartment and turn left, there is the bathroom:



The toilet seat is on the floor because Ryan got mad at it. It doesn't fit quite right, and so when you sit on the toilet the seat rests on your back. Just living the dream.... haha. This is also before we had a shower curtain too.



Going straight ahead from the entryway, is our bedroom:



It's much larger than any other bedroom we've ever had.



And there's tons of closet space.



There is only one thing slightly wrong with our bedroom: we have two twin beds pushed together as "our bed". We've come to appreciate it, though, because we can have our own bed and still feel like we're sleeping in the same one. It's also really nice because we have two sets of sheets for them as well. No more hogging blankets! Yay! I have a feeling we might have a hard time adjusting to our little full sized bed when we return to America... Oh well, that's not for another 10 months!



If you turn right from the entryway, there is our kitchen/dining room/living room:





My favorite thing about our whole living room is that they painted one of the walls blue. It makes it feel a lot warmer and brighter. Plus, it takes away the prison-like feeling you get with all white walls.



I love our kitchen. There's a ton of counter space, and the little blue sun tiles really brighten it up. Although, I wouldn't mind if it had a microwave and a dishwasher...





And here are some of the lovely views that can be seen from our new home:









Here are a few pictures that I've taken from around campus as well:









The campus is pretty small. There are only 6 buildings that are all right on the main street that runs through it. A really interesting fact about the university is that all of the buildings look different and are different colors. They call the road that runs through campus "Rainbow Alley" because of it. I guess they figure if they aren't going to have the whole campus be connected, they may as well make it easy to find where you're going. I will definitely appreciate that when I'm walking to class in November when it's dark outside and snowing.

Well, that's all for today. Tomorrow I will find some more ambition and write about orientation and all the exciting things we've been doing this week.