My "Wohngemeinschaft"

Complete Set of Photos

My dorm complex is called Straußäcker II. The buildings all have three floors, but an apartment is either one or two floors. Mine has two floors and is located on the second and third stories of our section. We have a courtyard area in front of our apartment. The complex is shaped like a squarish spiral and is really quite nice. There is also a grill that happens to be right at the bottom of our steps.

Here's the actual apartment I'm staying in. It's the second and third floors of this chunk of the complex. The rooms in the front have ceilings high enough for lofts (the rooms behind the semi-circular windows). Someone even left a couch on our balcony for us. It's quite nice to sit on your porch in a nice soft couch!

It took me about three days to figure out that I have to push the outside door to open it instead of pull it, which is what it's like in the US. Someone was saying that in the US it's fire code that an outside door has to be pulled to be opened from the outside, but that must not be the case here.

We have a table, another couch, and a TV with cable in the dining room/kitchen. We get all the German channels, as well as CNN and the BBC in English. The Simpsons are hilarious to watch dubbed into German!

There's the kitchen, with a stove, oven, two fridges, etc. We will be getting a microwave soon. We even have two built-in beer storage units! I believe we keep some food in there too...

On the first floor of our apartment, there is a bathroom (left door) and two bedrooms. The bathrooms both have a toilet, sink, and shower.

If you take a right from the kitchen area, there's the staircase that goes up to the second floor of our apartment. It's a very modern-looking staircase with planks of wood arranged in a spiral. The stairs are really trick when it's dark! Underneath is where we keep all of the garbage and recycleable stuff. Germans are pretty serious about recycling and sorting trash. If your garbage man notices that you didn't sort things correctly, you can be fined.

Here's my room. I have a really high slanted ceiling and new, modern-looking furniture. It's really nice actually, but I need to work on finding a rug for the floor. I have a nice view of some trees and a path and such out of my huge window. The door opens also.

Here is the view from my window.

Another view of my room. I have a bookshelf, desk and chair, wardrobe, and bed.