movin´ on up. literally.

BIG NEWS: We (my roommates and me) found out yesterday that instead of just staying in the apartment we live in right now and me moving into a different bedroom, my roommates and I are moving somewhere else, probably tomorrow or Sunday. And that somewhere else is a beautiful top two floors and roof apartment in downtown Loja in a building that the owners of our school bought last week. Literally, they bought the entire building last week. We just saw the place last night and I´m not sure exactly what floors its on, just that we have to walk up a lot of stairs to get to the apartment, but I would say that our apartment is floors 4 and 5 and also the rooftop terrace. It´s smack dab in the middle of downtown Loja and the views from the roof are INCREDIBLE. We have an actual living room furnished with a coffee table, two chairs, and an IKEA futon (brought here from Canada I guess). We got into the apartment and immediately sat on the futon. I haven´t sat on a sofa since I got here, just mattresses and plastic or metal chairs. The dining room area has a table that isn´t an outside plastic picnic type table. Real wood with a lot of chairs around it. It has a pretty legit kitchen. No oven, but who would expect that, but a lot of stoage space and real counters. In the living room there is a bar area which is super nice. There are 6 bedrooms total ranging from tiny to gigantic. Mine is gigantic, about twice as big as my bedroom at home, and has a private bathroom and get this!, costs only $85 per month, which makes me bitter that once I paid $420 per month for a room half the size and no private bathroom. Cost of living is definitely relative to income wherever you live. Granted, I am making only $320 per month here, but I can certainly afford $85 with what I saved up before coming.

Anyways, Charles (my Nigerian housemate) has the other big bedroom and Annabel has the one next to mine. How convenient. Not sure what room my Canadian roommate and her boyfriend are going to live in, but time will tell. Charles made sure to write our names on the bedroom doors last night with a whiteboard marker to claim them. 

The school owners, Michelle and Diego, who are married, told us that we should be moving in this weekend so hopefully that happens. I really feel like this apartment would be used if Loja were to host a season of MTV´s Real World. It´s too nice. After we move in, I will take pictures and definitely get them uploaded here or somewhere else. Stay tuned.

The best part, in my opinion, about the apartment is that the walls facing the street are all glass. So that includes my bedroom. You stand next the wall, look down, get kind of frightened, and then appreciate the view. The two floors of the apartment kind of overhang over the rest of the building a bit which is freaky, but it´s also pretty sweet. Another good thing is that the rest of the building is going to be offices and no apartments so we will be the only ones living in there.

Sounds nice though, eh? I can´t wait. The new apartment is close to any store or resturant we would possibly need to go to except SuperMaxi (the most American style supermarket) and TropiBurger. bummerrrrr, haha. 

Too much excitement about moving. 

In other news, I´m still sick. Today, my nose is running like a faucet. Yum.

Have a great weekend!