Relief: I moved! お引越し

I am happy to announce that I've finally moved to my new room which is in the official student dormitory in Geneva (Cité Universitaire de Genève). It's fantastic with a private bathroom, large closet and noise-cancelling walls.

Don't get me wrong; I loved my previous apartment. However, as it was a super old building I could hear everything; especially because my room faced the bathroom of my neighbors and I could hear everything from peeing to throwing up...yuck! Plus the other side of my room was connected to their living room and I can basically hear everything whenever they had friends over or had the music loudly. I asked them to turn it down once but they started accusing me for knocking on the walls too much. Um, excuse me have you ever considered why? I couldn't bear it anymore, it was time to move!

ついについについに・・・待ちに待ったお引越し！というのも以前住んでいたアパートは管理人さんも優しかったし、大学にも近かったんだけど古い古いアパートなので騒音がうるさ過ぎる！というか防音効果はまったくのゼロ。全部筒抜けに聞こえる上、あたしの部屋の壁はご近所さんのトイレとリビングに面しているため、リビングでの会話はもちろん来客はうるさいし、終いにはトイレの音も筒抜け。一回文句を言いに言ったんだけど答えは「でもそっちは壁叩くのがうるさいんだけど」と開き直り。叩くのはあんた達がうるさいからでしょー！！となんの効果もなかったため引越し計画を決行。が、ジュネーブ市の空室率は２％。この２％を目掛けて世界中のインターンや国連職員が壮烈なバトルを繰り返している！フェースブックやインターネットで掲示板を当たりまくったけど掲載されて１日ほどで取り下げられてる。つまり誰か見つかったって訳なのよね～

そう探すこと一ヶ月。フェースブックでジュネーブの大学寮で空室情報をゲット。掲載されて５分後にメールしたところ既に２人待ち！運よく あたしが一番早く入居ができるという条件尽きで契約ゲットできました～！学生寮といっても新しい寮なのでトイレバス付き「台所は共同）。壁はもちろん防音効果あり。これで内装も全部そろっていてまあまあな感じ。そしてなんといっても家賃は学生寮なので以前の半分！やっと落ち着いた学生生活が送れそうでひと段落☆　それにしても引越し業者を雇うのは高いのでスーツケースで何往復もしてやっと完了。あー疲れた　汗

Place is a mess! Packing up

I admit I miss this room... it was cozy, luminous and close to school

Of course being in Geneva, that doesn't come easy. Geneva has an occupancy rate of 98%, which means that there are only 2% of rooms vacant in Geneva at any time. This explains why the rents are so high! The tip I can offer to anyone who is looking for a room is basically being a lurking stalker on all the Facebook housing groups and to reply instantly. I was extremely lucky in that I responded to a post 5 min after. Even then there were already 2 inquiries so you can see how crazy things get! Luckily the other 2 didn't work out and I was able to move in quickly so the move was swift. The noise issue had been extremely stressful for me so this is one thing off my chest!

  

 

Common room/kitchen, I have 5 other roommates!

Balcony