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I figured I'd post y'all some pictures of my apartment, since you've been so patient...

Entering through the front door

The bathroom (door to the left of the entrance)

The bathroom

The bathroom

Note that the "shower head" is not and cannot be fastened to the wall in any way. The hose on it is barely long enough to hold above your head if you squat in really close; the shower head is fed by the sink...evidently there didn't used to be a shower/bathtub in our bathroom. The old shower rooms are downstairs in the basement, and have been converted to trash rooms and a laundry room. Evidently, during communism, our two-person flat accomodated 6 people. How they even fit in here, let alone shared a single bathroom without a shower, remains a mystery. A little simple math: 6 people * 6 apartments per floor * 14 floors = 504 people. 504 people sharing one shower room. Yeah, that's disease.

The closet (door to the right of the entrance

When I moved in, there was a sack of rotting (possibly fermenting) potatoes in the closet.

The oven fan in our fabulous kitchen

Yes, I'm afraid that the dust packet (I'm unconvined that that thing is actually an air filter) will someday fall apart and land on the stove. I'll put more pictures of the kitchen up later. Too tired to take pictures and convert them and upload them now.

The only redeeming quality of the apartment is this Lycos poster

Germans use only the highest quality lead paint on my bedroom windows

The plywood "wall" separating my bedroom from the kitchen

Posted by reid at November 20, 2002 11:37 PM | TrackBack