Posted by alexandra_k on November 20, 2013, at 23:26:45
This might be my home for the next...
6 years?
No, surely not. I'll be sent to some dismal town for placement, surely.
4 years? If I don't get in to medicine and I have to do a degree in something else.
2 years? If that is all I get before being sent to some dismal town for placement.
(Fingers crossed the best students get to stay in the city and do placement in the hospital there)
I think... That is why there are a bunch of med student scholarships... So people can afford to keep their place in the city while they go on placement...
Anyway...
My current apartment... It is possible that I can stay here. It is a 'standard studio' rather than a 'deluxe studio' and 13 square meters rather than 19 square meters. No cook top... I'm pretty sure they don't get an actual oven, though... But no element. Miget microwave... Gas cook tops and ovens on the ground floor... But no element in my room.
ANd I brought a f*ck*ng stove top coffee maker already.
For, like, twenty bucks. But that isn't the point.
Anyway... I am meant to move early December... So I've been sussing out the building... And I think... Well... The building manager said I could stay where I am if I like. Probably he just meant over summer... Because I've accepted a contract for a deluxe studio ($10 extra pw) for 2014 academic year (starting March)... Keen to get / be settled...
So I was like 'I want an element and the bigger area. But north facing and upper level please'. ANd he was good enough to say 'this room then' which met my criterion... But then I looked a bit harder (from what I could tell from outside) and while (north facing) sun comes in... It is uninspired.
So... I said if they could get an electric cook-top / electric frypan / slow cooker for the apartment as a chattel... Then I'd be prepared to stay and call it a Deluxe Studio (since cook-top was the official difference). But that now I was feeling more serious about fridge / freezer. Since we only have very old (not space efficient at all) fridges with ice-boxes. And an ice-box isn't a freezer any more than a blender is a juicer.
I think... I think... The whole 'Unilodge' deal... Was that individual people buy Unilodge apartments. That that is how the building gets funded to be built. Then Unilodge management manages the building to students. Then the University here came along and went 'exclusive contract to us (our students who are fairly f*ck*ng desperate for places to live close to uni / in the city) and we will help manage you and give you a higher quality clientele' (because there were significant issues before with both short term students and management).
Anyway...
I have fallen in love with the view, I've decided. The harbour and the sky tower... My view reminds me: I'm living in the f*ck*ng city. If I'm facing trees in a courtyard... I might as well be in the dismal f*ck*ng town already.
But a freezer would be nice. Cook. Freeze. Then microwave. Obviously, people...
And the thought of carting everything downstairs... Then making social chit chat... Then carting it back up again... While appealing to most (how to make friends) is really not very appealing to me.
I wrote a really nice f*ck*ng review of the particular apartment for such things online. Because current ones were mixed, and that did indeed affect how I felt about applying here / moving in. It is a mixed bag... I think... I might not have a representative sample (will know next year) but I think that mostly it is full of international students (which I am totally used to and very cool about indeed) but that a lot of them are sort of US undergrad / frat party ideal focused. Which is... Not really the sort of clients that make the best tenents with respect to not noise issue / looking after the place.
They could totally market this place higher... Student accommodation is so very scare... They should totally prioritize graduate students / undergraduate students who are contientious / study focused. They make better tenets even if nothing else ffs.
In better news: I'm less panicked and thrashing about wildly in the pool already (day 3). 4 laps today (there and back a lap). Breast stroke, head above (or I get ear troubles). My kick is a-symetric after my injuries. Trying to be relaxed and symetric and unrushed. I suspect... I'll build this up to 30 or even 40 minutes cardio by the end of summer. If I can keep my kick somewhat symmetric... I hate the thought of ingraining bad motor patterns. In an OCD hating absolute revulsion kinda way.
Um... I'm jumping in the pool when I get back from the gym. All my sweaty self in my sweaty gym gear. Is that gross to people? I'd sweat in the pool via exercise anyways?
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