Our House

I haven't posted in quite a while because we still don't have internet in our new place yet. The only way I am able to get online at all is to come to campus with Jenny and get on the University's wireless network, which is what I am currently using. Hopefully soon we will have internet at home, but who knows.

Anyway, we did indeed get moved into our new house, and it's great! There are, of course, a few things that suck about it, but for the most part Jenny and I both really like it! I think not having a home for such a long time really helped me appreciate how great it is to have one.

It turns out that we will be living there by ourselves - we realized after we moved in that the fact that the bedrooms do not have doors would really be a problem for more than just Jenny and me, and also that the common areas would be kind of small to share between more than two people.

Our mailing address, for those who are interested, is: 22 Rue de Douai, 59000 Lille, France. And here are some detailed pictures of what our house looks like!

The entry room/dining room. It's kind of weird living somewhere where your door opens straight onto the sidewalk. Most of the furniture in this room (and the rest of the house) was given to us by Liliane and Francois!

Jenny and my room. As you can see, we are still living out of our suitcases.

The short hallway between the upstairs rooms

The spare room upstairs

The staircase

The kitchen, downstairs adjacent to the entry room. And it has a refrigerator!!!

The doors to the toilet on the left, and the bathroom on the right. It's weird, because these are directly across from the windows in the kitchen which look out onto the sidewalk, so if you're on your way to or from the shower in just a towel, anyone who cares to look in can easily see you.

Parc Jean-Baptiste Lebas, a park that is about a block away from our house