South Dowling Street

The night after the game I fell asleep missing my family and Pedro, regretting I wasn’t in Oude Haven, but on the other hand I felt on top of the world. I found a place, we were in the finals and everything was falling into place. When I woke up this feeling didn’t last long. When Lisianne told me she wanted to talk to me and sat on my bed, I knew something was wrong. She confessed me that she was afraid that sharing a room together for five months would hurt our friendship.

In the end I made a decision to still take the room we saw, as it would be more expensive, but at least filled with other people and in a good location for city, uni and beach. It is quite expensive, but all the housing is here, especially if you don’t share a room. I called Joanna who told me that the medium room was already gone (at $200 a week) and only the larger one was left, the one I would initially share with Lisianne. She said she might have a room of 200 in the house across the street, which was basically the same, but I would have to share two bathrooms with the same amount of people. At the moment I am still unsure which one I will get, but I have a room. Slightly over my budget, but one I think I will enjoy. Not sharing a room with Lisianne does bring one advantage I guess, since it means I don’t have to move out and find something else when Pedro comes to visit (I don’t know if my landlord will be okay with that, but I have a double bed in a room that could be shared, so I presume it is) . I will move in the 14th, as that is the day before last in the hostel, preventing that I have to pay double. A week until I have 24/7 internet, a week until I start my new home.