Saturday, January 13, 2007

No longer homeless!

Hello everyone,

I am hap
py to say that I am no longer homeless in Geneva. I finally found a temporary place and would be staying here up until the end of the month. I have three roomates, and we are quite diversified as well. Justus comes from Uganda and speaks English, Andrea is from Ticino, Switzerland and speaks French, Spanish, English, German Italian his mother tongue and Isabelle is a Genevoise who speaks French as her mother tongue and is learning English.

Thank God I was able to find a place and finally start settling down in Geneva. It's hard to concentrate with work if you don't have a place to stay. And to be honest, I haven't even had the chance to have my luggages pulled out from their bags as I still have no permanent place to stay yet.

I am currently sharing a place with them and haven't had a place of my own. I only occupy a sofa unfortunately and miss the sense of space I have back in Canada. Well, it's not the time to be choosy as it's worth your sweat and blood to look for a place to stay in this city of diplomats. And rent doesn't come cheap, as a small room costs you 400 CHF minimum which will give you an entire basement in Winnipeg actually.

This is my temporary room, I actually sleep in the sofa for the meantine....

The view outside my window, Geneva is actually a densely populated area

Kitchen Dining Room and Living Room as well

This is my apartment from the outside, I live on the upper leftmost window on the third floor

A stroll in the surrounding areas of the apartment, clean and organized Genevois rues

Switzerland has been reliant on trains for its public transit, here is a rail track near centreville Geneva, on the background are mountain ranges in France

And yes, for Canadians out there, Swiss (the francophones at least) play hockey as well. I heard that this becomes ice hockey in wintertime.

Roomate Isabelle enjoying preparing the pasta sauce for our lunch.

Justus enjoying a break after a good pasta meal
What comes next after eating.... me enjoying washing the dishes, the cam caught me by surprise!

1 comment:

Alain said...

Wow Mark ... great blog entries ... it's wonderful to read and keeps me off work ... haha :) Keep on blogging & enjoy beautiful warm weather in Switzerland ;) Cheers, Alain