Home Sweet Hostel

I have spent the last week and a half living in Crib 15, which is a hostel located about a 7 minute walk from the city center.  It has certainly been an interesting experience, to say the least.

We had to move out of our apartment to make room for the next wave of students to go train with ITC,  so a few of us booked a few beds here.   Mine is the bottom bunk, and as you can see by the massive dark blob on the right, I overpacked when I moved here.  I didn't realize this until I started living out of my suitcase and found that it was very difficult to control all of the clothes I have in such a confined area : /  And to think I downsized BEFORE I came here....

The job situation has been the toughest thing about this whole experience, because the availability of work is not as plentiful as I was told it would be.  It makes harder to feel less far away when you aren't sure where you're going to be living in a week! That being said though, I am making the best of it.  The people I've been meeting in the hostel are pretty cool - 2 guys from Portugal, 1 girl from Canada, another from Melbourne, and another guy named Mike from Perth, Australia.   As a sidenote, I've adopted 'dodgy' into my vocabulary just because I feel like it, and you can describe some of the other characters I have met at the hostel as extremely dodgy.  One weird, old Bulgarian guy who violently projectile vomits in the bathroom every morning and night.  It's really gross, and I mean I feel sorry for him if he has an eating disorder, but it's still really..gross..  Not to mention he has also propositioned 2 girls in the hostel to sleep in his room with him.  He's not very well-liked around here, and there are a few of us who have now been here long enough to see people cycle through that we realize that we need to find jobs, and a place to call HOME, soon:)

I'm working on it, but I don't want to get my hopes up so I'm not going to post it on here JUST yet. I should know within a day or so, so check back soon...