La alegria de una casa
I think happiness smells like the cuttings of Heliotropes that were sitting on the counter in my friend Teresa´s kitchen. When I was staying at her place Iiked to get up and smell them every morning. They were like me waiting to be planted.
It is such a relief to finally have a house again. My two weeks of appartment hunting mixed in a around a week of holidays were starting to get less exciting and more suspenseful. Options I thought I had were disappearing and I spent a few days running between house visits, classes and back again. I think I made in total about fifty phone calls and visited about nine appartments. There was a little while I didn´t feel like searching anymore and I was running out of ideas of where to look, but it was starting to get more urgent to find a place. After going through newspapers, websites, shop window notices, etc. my friend found the ad and made the call for my new house.
The appartment I am now living in is on a street called Ronda das Fontiñas and the front of the building overlooks the river Rato. My two housemates are two guys studying engineering that come from small towns on the west coast of Galicia and mostly only speak Gallego. The place is quite spacious and the windows overlook a park to the back of the building. I have a bed, a table and a closet in my room and I don´t have to live out of my back pack for a while. The funny thing about my room is that the walls are the same shade of blue as my room in Saskatoon. Feel free to visit anytime before July. Mi casa es su casa.
I think happiness smells like the cuttings of Heliotropes that were sitting on the counter in my friend Teresa´s kitchen. When I was staying at her place Iiked to get up and smell them every morning. They were like me waiting to be planted.
It is such a relief to finally have a house again. My two weeks of appartment hunting mixed in a around a week of holidays were starting to get less exciting and more suspenseful. Options I thought I had were disappearing and I spent a few days running between house visits, classes and back again. I think I made in total about fifty phone calls and visited about nine appartments. There was a little while I didn´t feel like searching anymore and I was running out of ideas of where to look, but it was starting to get more urgent to find a place. After going through newspapers, websites, shop window notices, etc. my friend found the ad and made the call for my new house.
The appartment I am now living in is on a street called Ronda das Fontiñas and the front of the building overlooks the river Rato. My two housemates are two guys studying engineering that come from small towns on the west coast of Galicia and mostly only speak Gallego. The place is quite spacious and the windows overlook a park to the back of the building. I have a bed, a table and a closet in my room and I don´t have to live out of my back pack for a while. The funny thing about my room is that the walls are the same shade of blue as my room in Saskatoon. Feel free to visit anytime before July. Mi casa es su casa.
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