Apartment!

So for a variety of reasons, I have decided to leave my host family, and have found an apartment, or better, a room in an apartment with other Argentines.  My reasons for leaving are sort of all over the place.  A sprinkling of disagreement, some frosting of not liking being reprimanded, a pinch of needing independence, a big hand full of my program director nudging me because we have new interns coming and not enough host families….and with all that I was able to bake myself up an apartment.

It is located down town La Plata (not that it is that big.  It is like saying down town Cambridge), I am 5 blocks from one job, which is then 3 blocks from the other.  In a triangle.  So I am never more than 5 blocks from either one.  Here is a map!!!!

I will be living with two other Argentine girls.  Both are studying architecture.  One is 30 and the other 20.  A mother AND a daughter…all in one swoop.  I have only met the older of the two, who is named Maru.   I have my own room, Maru is lending me a bed and a table, and I have my own personal bathroom.  The apartment is on the first floor of a huge apartment building and is the only apartment that has a patio.  To have cook outs.  I have to think about next summer…since i will still be here!  It is snug and small and I am going to get to know my house mates well.  There are really only two bed rooms, they are building a third bedroom in half the living room.  Ghetto like college.  But I have my own space, and the patio is big so I am not worried.

I am moving next week after I get back from vacation in Mendoza this week.  I will post some pictures of the space after I move and have a little house warming party!