I’ve been living with my flatmate since I moved to Spain at the end of February. She is also a teacher at my school, our director put us in contact with each other so I could ask questions about living in the flat…about living in Spain…and I guess about working in my school.
After the director picked me up from the airport in Seville, she dropped me off at the flat where I met my new flatmate. Let’s call her Kristy~
Kristy showed me around the flat – which I thought was quite spacious. We have a balcony, kitchen, a living room/dining room, a bathroom (with shower, toilet, basin and storage- sadly no bath), a main bedroom which is big enough for a double bed, two smaller rooms – one room big enough for a single bed and two side tables, and the other seems to be an office/spare room since it has a desk and a small camp bed.
She told me I could have either room, but warned me that the small single bed room gets quite cold at night – so I chose the office bedroom.
Big mistake!
The bed in that room was a child’s size bed. Now I’m 175cm and definitely not a child. I spent my first night trying to keep all my limbs inside the bed and under the duvet to keep from freezing to death (YES it was THAT cold!) while simultaneously trying to not fall out.
It’s safe to say I didn’t fall out of the bed, but I did move into the other room the next morning and I’ve been here since.
You can see me move my duvet from the office room to my small bedroom~
I can’t show you my flatmate’s room since…y’know, it’s her room ^^;;
I’ve lived with people before.
I shared with 4 boys and 1 bitchy girl in my first year of university THAT was hell.
I shared with 2 boys and 1 girl in my second year of university…I never saw them. They were international students from China and were afraid to talk to me because they’d have to speak English – which they explained and apologised for when I was moving out at the end of the year.
I shared a kitchen space with 5 Chinese girls and 1 sri lankan girl during my year abroad in Japan – Thank god it was just a kitchen space because those girls didn’t like to clean up after themselves ^^;;
And in my final year of university I shared with 1 Chinese girl, 1 English girl and 1 Iranian girl – that was okay, everyone kind of kept to themselves , me and the Chinese girl were good friends by the end of the year.
So I’ve had good experiences and many bad experiences, I was nervous that Kristy and I wouldn’t get along but we do. We both respect each other’s space, ask each other if the other needs to use the bathroom before we take a shower, and we talk about work and other things. I’m really glad I chose to live with her during these few months instead of just living alone.
That isn’t to say I will be sharing next year!
Since she is moving away when the semester ends and I’m returning in September, I will keep the flat. I’ll live here alone and hope the rent will still leave me with some spending money ^^;;
Maybe in the autumn – when it’s just me – I’ll give a proper flat tour~!
Have a lovely day!
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