sorry it's been a while. there's so much going on, and it's pretty late, so i'm going to keep this short... here's my new apartment!!! i moved in with my friend geoff temporarily and it's turned into long-term, as in, i live here. it's fantastic.

the living room (kitchen in the back of the photo - that's where you enter, to the left):


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so tonight is my last night in queens. i'm moving to centraal to live with my friend geoff until i find a more permanent home here. apparently, it's nearly an impossible feat; whenever i tell anyone i'm looking for an apartment, they always say with a sad face, "good luck. it's awful here ( Read more... )

so, yesterday i went and saw a really nice, huge one bedroom apartment just over the amstel from de pijp. it was on a really quiet street and set back from that street by a nice garden with a huge tree in front. the inside of the apartment was pretty overwhelming - very nice, but a little hotel-ish. the dining table and chairs looked straight out ( Read more... )

this is what the central part of amsterdam looks like... so pretty!


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so, a lot has happened since i arrived tuesday morning super, super early... and i wrote all about my airport debacle, but because i have a sort of shoddy wireless connection on my computer, i had to use the one that is hooked into the wall at the apartment where i'm staying, which means that all the commands are in dutch, and so instead of posting ( Read more... )

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