Building GA9 Apartment#202, sounds homey right?

I decided it's time to put up some photos of our little apartment.  Our place has two bedrooms, a pretty spacious sitting room and a tiny kitchen.  We have yet to decide whether we're going to put the money and energy into buying wall decorations for the year we're here, so currently all we have up is a map of China, a LOVELY Mickey Mouse clock that we were fortunate enough to inherit from the previous tenant, and a Michigan football calendar.  Apparently there is a weekly market just outside of campus that sells plants and rugs and other such items to make our apartment seem a little less stark.  Our only problem is we can't seem to figure out when this alleged market is, we were told by a Chinese student that it's every six days "just like church", however it's not on the same day each week.  Once we figure out this whole market business we'll probably find something to cover up our stained and scratched walls, so bear that in mind!

This is one of the apartment buildings for foreign teachers, there are 10 apartments in each building but I think ours is only about half occupied.

(our place is on the left side, second floor)

 

That's our door on the left side (notice- no doorknob, it's quite a task at times to get in)

The view right when you open our front door, WELCOME!

A different view of the room, I wanted everyone to see our map

Right when you come in the front door this is the view if you look to your left

This is our second bedroom, we have turned it into a study/storage/laundry room

Our tiny kitchen

The refrigerator was in the sitting room when we first got here, I'm not sure why we're the only ones who thought it was more logical in the kitchen.  I suppose it does take up about 1/4 of our counter space, but it was definitely worth moving!

Since we can't drink the tap water we bought a water cooler, next to the water cooler is our washing machine.  There is no dryer, and the water pipe for the washing machine needs to be attached to our sink faucet and then there is a separate pipe that empties out mid-cycle into a lower sink that is hidden to the right of the washing machine.  Our first laundry attempt was quite a debacle; I didn't realize the water was constantly being emptied out of the washing machine and all of a sudden we heard a huge rush of water, I ran into the kitchen to find the entire floor covered with water.  Lesson learned.

This is our 'stove', making dinner is quite the task

A closer view of the washing machine

Our bathroom

Jordan and I each have our own closet this size.  We were pleasantly surprised to each have our own space, since neither of us are good packers and probably brought way too much.

The new Snuggle Cove