new flat! (that's right, i said "flat")

this summer i moved out of school-provided housing. i got my very own flat! gábor and i looked in the newspaper for furnished flats that would accept dogs, were in my price range, were on the ground floor, and were near the city center (and not nasty). we called around, xander being the biggest deal-breaker - can you imagine?! - and finally he ended up driving me around to see the flats and being there for negotiations' sake. the first flat was ok but was 30 years old and smelled like old sick people. the second was was fine but SO BIG that i couldn't really justify living there alone. then the third one... well, when i walked in the deal was done. third time's a charm. and it IS quite charming.

the building is on the corner of two residential streets

and my flat is right by the entrance (the pull-down shade is on my window and those are our mailboxes on the wall)

xander even feels at home here now.

ok, so that corner is full of teaching stuff piled on a a table, but that comes with the territory of being a teacher. there's a bit of a mess... but it's me we're talking about here.

the armchair and sofabed you're seeing are my first major purchases in hungary! i'm sitting on that couch right now :)

xander's space is in the corner and he seems happy with it. that tv works but is not plugged in (since it only speaks hungarian to me). aniko' insists that watching tv will improve my language skills, but i'm pretty sure it'll just give me a headache.

view from xander's corner. that's my closet, that big green wardrobe. it's in the living room because it didn't fit through the bedroom door and i didn't protest enough to get a new one.

my beautiful kitchen! it's called an "american style" kitchen, though it doesn't strike me as particularly american. it is a 10-fold improvement over my last kitchen. i regularly bake and cook and freeze things, just because i can. plus, there's even a bit of counter space! woe is me.

my bathroom junk on top of my classy washing machine

whoops, i better pick that stuff up.

my doored shower! no leaks, no mess, just showers.

everything has its place... everything just isn't IN its place.

a look into my bedroom... it really is just a room with a bed and some shelves

looking at the kitchen from my bedroom. cool accordion door, no?

outside there is a courtyard/parking lot as well as two other buildings of the 'flat complex'

it could be called a 'gated community' heheeehee

we dry our clothes outside. (my flat is on the far right in this one)

if xander's happy, i'm happy. and look at 'im....

anyway, my mailing address is on the top left of this blog in case you have a hankerin' to send me a housewarming postcard. :)