My Room

In my last post, I promised a description of my room and some pictures. The pictures didn't turn out very well, but I'll post two of them anyhow. I did warn you!

When I arrived last Monday and opened the door to my room, I was really taken aback. The room is really quite nice. The first thing I saw was a big window with colorful curtains covering them up. If there isn't one thing I hate it's having something in front of the windows keeping the natural light out, so the first thing I did was pull back the curtains. From my room, I have a pretty good view of the city, although I found out later in the week that some of the other dorms have a better view than I do. Mine is still pretty nice though, and I like it. I opened up my suitcases and put pictures of Harvey (my cat) and Carley (my dog) on at each end of the window. That way I can keep an eye on them all the time. The window stretches along the length of the wall, as well as the desk that butts right up against the wall below the window.

There is a small bookshelf hanging on the wall to the right of the desk. I put my two German dictionaries and my German Bible on it. It remains otherwise bare, but I hope to populate it with German titles soon!

The bed is along the left side of the room, and it fills neatly and compactly a space between the desk and a small petition separating the sleeping area from my entry area. On this petition, there is another bookshelf, and this one too is empty but will hopefully accumulate some volumes as my time in Germany goes along. The entry area has a sink on the right side with a small medicine cabinet made up of three mirrors that open up. I have plenty of space to store things there. I'm happy for the numerous hooks on the wall in this area, although they are there in both a rather haphazard way and with seemingly no regard for a particular color scheme. This lack of consistency is bothersome, but I'll deal with it.

On the left side of the entry is my closet. It's rather large, and that's nice. There are shelves in it and a place to hang up things. There's not a lot more I can say about it - it's a closet. The door to the closet, however, does open up and latch in the open position, thus forming two rooms: a bedroom and a washroom of sorts. It's nice to think that I don't have a one-room dwelling but a two-room one instead! I'm moving up in the world in comparison to my accommodations at Millersville!

That's all there is to say about the room. I live at the end of the hall, and if you exit my room and go directly down the hallway, you'll come to the door that leads to the common area. This is where the kitchen is. I cooked there today (salmon and broccoli), and the burners didn't heat up too quickly. I still have to figure out how to work a Celsius oven if I want to bake, but I don't know if that's going to be necessary given the numerous Bäckereien throughout the city. It's nice to do that one your own some though too.

More updates will be coming soon. I thought this time around - after having reread the last entry - I'd make sure to let you all know that despite the negative aspects that I talked about earlier, Germany really is great. I'm very happy that I came - it's something that I've looking forward to for a very long time! I'm happy and praise God that it finally happened!