Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Two of my American friends and I recently split a membership on EasyPiso.es in order to facilitate our apartment search. It's a pretty cool website where you can search for habitaciones disponibles (available rooms) in apartments around the city you're living in. You can view photos if the owner has uploaded any and you can contact the owner if you're interested in seeing the place. A premium membership is 20€, which isn't too bad when split among three people.
With the help of our friend Dierdre (thanks Dierdre!) we've been calling people and setting up appointments to look at open rooms together. Speaking on the phone with native Spanish speakers has been more difficult than we anticipated, and Dierdre helps out a little here and there if there's a communication problem. In other words, we make Dierdre call everyone.
We saw a nice three-person apartment yesterday, but we were reluctant to take the first thing we saw after having just paid for a membership on EasyPiso. We were also concerned that if we all lived alone together, we would never practice our Spanish together.
Tonight, we looked at an apartment building that seems much more promising. It's right near the ocean and it's filled with other foreign students all eager to practice their Spanish. The inside is really nice and it has a terrace on the roof with a nice view of the ocean and the city. It was pretty much exactly what we were looking for and we've decided we're going to take it.
On February 14, I'll be moving into the fourth floor apartment and I'll be living with one French girl, two German girls and an American girl from New Mexico. The French girl, Marine, seems very friendly and she said she was excited to be living with another American.
awww!!! :) thank you Vid!! <3
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