Unsere neue Wohnung!

Pictures!

I figured I'd give a brief background to our new pad. We now live on Beethovenstraße (Beethoven Street), which is one street over from Mozartstraße (Mozart Street) and down the street from the national music archives. An additional piece of random information is that we also live a short walk from the residence of the Libyan ambassador.

We're renting our apartment from a mathematician, who reminds me very much of my father. He has usually rented it out to doctoral candidates, but there hasn't been money to finance any, so the apartment has been empty for almost a year. It was partially furnished, but he figures he can rent it out as fully furnished once we leave, so he's basically been buying us a bunch of new stuff, like new pots and pans, a new bed, and kitchen utensils. Basically, we found a super awesome deal.


I thought that I would begin this photo tour of our new apartment with the view from our balcony. Because we have a balcony!

As you can see, autumn is is full bloom here and the trees (both outside of our window and lining the streets) look beautiful. I'm sure if it ends up snowing a bunch this winter (though our first snow fall happened earlier this week!) our view will be equally picturesque. I've really enjoyed being able to just sit in the apartment and watch the leaves fall off the trees. It's an amazingly soothing activity and makes me kind of wish I had apple cider (though I suppose I could make that myself...).


Here you can see our desk and bookshelf. Conveniently situated right be the window allowing for optimal out-of-the-window staring. You can also see our two plants! The one on the right is a basil plant that started dying as soon as I brought it home (sigh), but on the left in the yellow pot is a succulent given to us by Amanda, another English teaching assistant, as a house warming present! Amanda is super awesome and will do doubt be a common character in this blog :)


The apartment is one bedroom with a separate hallway, bathroom, and kitchen and thus our bedroom is also our living and dining room. Here we have our kitchen table, conveniently purchased previously at Ikea. While Ikea (pronounced Ee-kay-uh since we're in Germany) is pretty awesome and the stuff looks cool, the product quality is sometimes... lacking. So, I demonstrated my handy-woman skills this week with wood glue after several of the pieces of the chair broke/ decided to not stay in their designated holes. The high quality German wood glue was provided by Stefan, another individual who will no doubt pop up on here from time to time.

Our tour will end for today with the kitchen (we do have a bed, I promise!).



Our kitchen is small, but sweet. Here you can see some of our new pots and pans and our oven. Also the largest cabinet on the left is actually our super camouflaged refrigerator.

Now at this point, I wanted to add more pictures, but blogger isn't letting me. Perhaps there's a picture limit? Perhaps I've uploaded too big of files? I suppose I will just have to make another post in the very near future with more pictures and such.

All the same, we love our new apartment, are super excited to be settled in and are very happy with life right now :)