Below I’m posting pictures of the new house. It’s pretty small but it’s all mine!
This is the “living room” or, if you will, the whole place, really. To the right is the soba, which appears as just a white wall, and to the left is a wardrobe with a mirror on the door and I have a small table and an old sofa to hang out on. I usually also eat at the little table there since there’s no space near the kitchen.
To the right of the sofa, above, the room has a right angle like an “L” and in the other leg of it is this old bed. It’s OLD so i don’t bother sleeping on it and right now it’s functioning as a book case and place where I lay out my materials for classes.
You can see the bed in the lower left portion of this picture and across from it is the lejancha. A lejancha is a little space formed by the soba, kind of a room within a room, that reatains a bubble of hear when the soba is lit, hence being a really warm place to sleep. I threw some mats down over there and I sleep there. Who can resist sleeping in a nook if one is available?!
This is the kitchen, which is pretty small but actually larger than my kitchen in my apartment in Seattle was. It came with the old but functional fridge and I bought the hot plate you see to the left there. I can eat or prep food at the tiny table to the right, which is probably not really visible. The little thing that looks like R2D2 is my distiller where I clean up the well water before drinking it.
That’s about it! The weather is terrible right now, so a picture of the outside will be coming soon, once it’s not surrounded by puddles and gray skies! Noapte Buna!
