Holy Pictures Batman!!

So as I left the computer lab on the 25th I walked home to an empty house and was unfortunately locked out. Well, let me rephrase that, I had my key, but as it is a skeleton key no one had yet shown me the proper pushing and pulling and twisting of said door and key to unlock the house. I ended up standing out for only about an hour, until a girl and her boy friend walked past and the boy was able to work the key for me. After that excitement, I decided to take a picture tour of the house for all of you following along :D

The front door with the retched skeleton key hole….the door can’t go over the welcome mat hence its placement in the middle of the hall….as well as the threshold of my room

The left side of my room….that box is the electrical box which we have to top up (buy more energy units) about every week and a half…it is EXTREMELY annoying when we run out of electricity in the middle of the night and the box starts to beep

The back wall of my room….with the extremely large window to the street….it’s nice in the daytime and wretched at night…I always wake up shaking

My bed, I found that duvet and duvet cover for under £20, I was proud of myself…That little niche next to my bed stores my luggage and my dirty clothes

The view of my room from the window…and no that heater does not work (I am going to be so happy to have heat in December)

The right of the living room…the TV doesn’t work but the fireplace does, we just have to ask the landlord if we can use it

The left of the living room….yes it is such a small room that the door can’t open all the way

The left of the kitchen….we were still trying to figure out how to fit everything in…next to the stove is our tiny clothes washer….you can fit about 3 jeans in there and that’s it and I never knew how much fun it could be to attempt to dry clothes with no clothes dryer, no fan, and no heat

The other side of the kitchen from back by the 2 cabinets….this house is tiny

This is the staircase….behind this picture is the door, first door on the left leads to my room, the second leads to the living room.

This is Vanessa’s room, she’s from Germany and is pretty much amazing….she’s so cool and chill and kinda got me addicted to Little Britain. We’re very similar in temperament and ideas.

This is Jenny from Illinois’s room…she’s really cool, a bit of a partier but a really sweet girl. She’s a vegetarian and is obsessive about reading and her books…in her words “I’d rather eat dirt than sell my any of my books.”

This is the shower, yes there is a cabinet in the shower, no we don’t have a shower curtain. The tub is up so high that if I forget about it I tend to fall, oh and yes we have hot water, just no water pressure.
The necessities of a bathroom….pretty self-explanatory

The only full length mirror in the house….luckily I really don’t use one :D and that's our vacuum

Stairway to Jenny from Sweden’s room…

Our skylight….classy ain’t it?
Jenny’s room….nice girl, a little strange, has an obsession with leather and dog collarsOur back alley security system, yes folks that would be broken glass cemented to the brick…I feel safe now

Our back alley through the window in the living room….that giant green thing is our oil supply and behind that is the trash can, nothing like dancing and shimmying to and from the garbage can. Oh and yes our kitchen window gives the amazing view of a brick wall.

And now for mom as I know she worries about what I will be eating…

And the fridge has since been stuffed with food from all 4 of us since this pictures….we are not starving we just need to remember to eat at proper intervals. :D

So after my little photo tour, I cleaned the kitchen and watched a DVD, rather calming until the roommates came home. We stayed up a bit and talked and then went to bed, rather boring for my first 24 hours in Belfast.