So you get a filler post. I had been meaning to post something about my room so you can see the luxurious accommodations we have in Limerick. I also have a filler post coming about some of the exciting meals I have eaten while over here.
We'll start with a picture from the foyer of the apartment. The Absurdly Long Hallway on the left leads to the entrance and my apartment door is on the right here. The Absurdly Long Hallway always makes for great fun whenever someone knocks on the door and it takes at least 20 seconds to get there.
This is from the corner of the Absurdly Long Hallway. The door you see on the left goes to Jake's room and the door on the right is the kitchen/living room. For being a simple two-bedroom apartment, there are way too many doors in the apartment. After coming into the initial entrance, you have to open another door to get to either Jake or my room or the kitchen/living room. In addition, Jake has another door separating the foyer from his bedroom. Way too many doors.
This is the kitchen area of the apartment with the door on the right that leads to the foyer. Note the great placement of the refrigerator. If we want to keep the door open then we block the access to the fridge. The kitchen has a range, stove and a scattering of random pots and pans. There were three plates, five glasses and six forks. We had to provide our own dish soap and condiments. Also, there was no dishwasher.
The other side of the kitchen/living room. The television was small and received about eight channels on 10 stations. We got three BBC channels, two channels of RTE, MTV Germany and Eurosport and SkyNews. Several of the stations appeared on multiple channels and came in quite fuzzy. The screwy part is that several of our roommates received completely different channel lineups.
This is my bedroom. A good-sized bed, but by no means is it comfortable. The room also has about 10 yards of empty space between the bed/desk and the window. This area became my souvenir collection area. Another weird quirk of the apartment is that my room and Jake's are nowhere near the same size. I have a regular-sized be and he has a twin. He is also missing the extra space inside the room.
The trade-off is in the bathrooms. Jake has a nice spacious area while I have the bathroom below. It is small. Another issue is hot water. Jake's has a constant supply while my hot water is set on a timer. It wasn't until the third week that I discovered this and figured out how to mess with the settings. Before that, it was hit or miss on whether I was going to take a warm shower. Always made for an interesting morning.
And that's Brookfield hall. In addition to the poorly designed rooms, the laundry is also a rip-off. They charge 5 Euros for a wash and dry. And you have to buy tokens when the desk is open. Plus they don't refill the soda machine and it is at least a half-mile away from the bus stop and a mile and half away from anything resembling a store. Needless to say, Brookfield won't be one of the selling points when I tell other students about studying abroad.
Live Update: We went out tonight with our professors. Apparently, we had extra money left in our budget so the program bought us dinner and we also had our drinks paid for. We went to Duggan's Pub where they have traditional Irish music. It was a lot of fun to hang out with all of our professors outside the classroom. After Duggan's, we went to another late-night bar, with our Irish professor, who isn't much older than we are. The night ended late, but we get to sleep in tomorrow because we are going to the courts. Weeeeee.
Cheers,
LJLA
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