Моя Квартира (My Apartment)

I have taken a few photos of the apartment where I am living. Take a look here. This residential area is a new suburb on the northeast side of Kiev. The building is a large U shape and I estimate there are well over 1500 apartments in this building alone. Identical buildings stretch down the street. In true Ukrainian style, there are many entrances to the building, each with access to only a small number of apartments on each floor.

This building is very new. It was built only about four years ago. It is a relatively nice building but the trade off is that it takes about one hour to get to any major parts of the city. Because our building is new, the hallways are comparatively well maintained. In other buildings I have been in, the mailboxes are falling off the walls, half of the flooring tiles are missing, the light bulbs are either missing altogether or sparse, dim and flickering. Many walkways and passageways are straight out of spy movies.

I have purchased a few items to make my year more comfortable. I got a desk chair which I can wheel out into the living room for additional seating and speakers to make learning tunes each week more enjoyable. I am debating whether or not to buy a new bed or mattress. The mattresses in my room are cot size and have some very defined gullies in the center. Flipping my bed frame around last night helped a lot after I discovered the bottom is made up of two pieces of plywood which met with a crown right underneath my ribs!