So I thought I’d take this opportunity to discuss our apartment. Before we left, there were a lot of questions concerning how we’re going to live, what the apartments were like, etc. After living here for the last 10 days, I have a better idea. In fact, instead of telling you about it in text, we posted our first video on YouTube!

So that’s it. Any questions?

Some of the more cool features of our place are the drying rack, our laundry line, and our 2 different hot water heaters.

Our drying rack is cool just because it’s part of the cabinets and I’ve never seen it before. The laundry line is great because our clothes dry in less time then using our dryer, and it’s much better for the environment.

The two heaters are pretty cool as one is a passive solar water heater and the other is a tankless water heater . The passive system uses the suns heat to naturally heat up the water without any electricity, while the tankless water heater only uses energy to heat the water you’re using. This differs from the American water heaters as our system is constantly keeping gallons of water hot all day long, regardless if you are home or not. Basically a huge waste of energy.

I’m basically loving the more environmental parts of the apartment. Not much else is different from an American apartment. The plugs are different shape and a different voltage and the TV is PAL instead of NTSC (which is why our Mario Kart displays in Black and White…grrr….). Instead of a mops we have floor squigees.

That’s all for now. Later on, we’ll post about live outside of the apartment. Wahoo!