Some videos of our place.
I feel a bit sorry for cockroaches. They look so unassuming and they have no idea they are not welcome in your home, scuttling up the curtains of your bedroom window. The next time you find one in your home, I suggest doing what we did and providing Mr. Cockroach with trade instead of imminent death. One hot air balloon ride from the 5th story in exchange for his vacating the flat immediately. Simply tuck him inside a discarded plastic sack, the ones that the bolts from IKEA come in works nicely. Open your window and let him fly into the wind.
Anyhow, apart from invading creepy crawly friends, our apartment is assembling nicely. We repainted over the hand/snot marks on the wall and went to Chinese IKEA twice, which is MENTAL. Imagine a fusion of regular IKEA and a Chinese supermarket. Now double the amount of people inside on a Sunday. Now imagine all of them hanging out on the furniture, sleeping on the beds, and lounging on the sofas like they were in their own homes. Now add a an inability to queue and funny chinglish toilet paper dispensers in the bathroom explaining how this paper is "not from tree, but from life." I hope I have painted a vivid picture of what our home furnishing experience has been thus far.
Fortunately, our place is now almost painted, furnished, internet connected, and clean. It is situated right under the metro line and is just down the road from all of the foreign food shops and restaurants. It also has a spare room complete with sofa bed, awaiting it's first victim...I mean visitor, mah sister.
So, job? Check (I'll tell you about it in another post). Apartment? Check. Now we are just waiting for our visas to finish processing...dum dee dum dum dum and then (hopefully) check. After all of that is finished, I want to do some serious catching up with ya'll. I'm thinking...mid- September?
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