My Room

As you know, I’m living in a room on the top floor of an old high school. This may sound scary to some of you but actually it’s really nice. It is way more than what I could have hoped to afford anywhere else. The room itself is equipped with a twin bed (with two sets of sheets and a down comforter), a nightstand, a desk, an armoire for my clothes, a bookshelf, a table, a little kitchenette (with a refrigerator and a hotplate), and a full set of dishes, pots, and pans.

Here's a view of my front door. Representing LA once again.

Here's a video of my kitchen. I know, I sound like an idiot in it.

Here's where I sleep.

Here's a pic of my room. Shown here are my desk, my armoire, and my bookshelf (plus the end of my bed).

Here's an inside pic of my armoire. See, it's not that full! I'm very proud of that.

Here's my table (where I eat) and my little kitchenette complete with fridge and hot plate. I'm also very proud of the fact that you can see the floor. That's right, folks. Aimee Brasseaux finally has a clean room and she's keeping it that way!

Here's my desk. Notice that I'm representing Lafayette and LSU. I also have my calendar and pics of friends and family to keep me company as I work.



Here are the maps that I have of the city and the city bus plan. These are pretty much my bibles right now so I don't get lost.

What we don’t have in our rooms, the school provides for us in the hallway. Right outside my door is a table that holds a microwave, a mixer, a toaster, a coffeepot, a kettle (for those darn English and their tea ; ), and other small appliances. Down the hall there’s a closet where they keep irons, ironing boards, mops, and brooms for us. There’s also a room with communal showers (don’t worry, we each have a stall) and a washing machine for our clothes. Unfortunately, we don’t have a dryer, so we have clotheslines set up in the shower room as well as drying racks.

Here's a view of the stuff that the school provides for us. We just bought ourselves a toaster oven too!

Here's a view of our hall. My room is the one with the open door on the left.

Here are our shower stalls. This is where I get so fresh and so clean, clean.

Here's our clothes dryer...aka the clothesline. I have never missed an appliance as much as I have missed my clothes dryer. I swear that the first thing that I'm doing when I get home is wash and dry my clothes, and then roll around in them when they're fresh from the dryer--that doesn't make me sound crazy, does it?

As for internet, we don’t have an internet connection in our rooms. Instead, we’re supposed to have a common room where we have a tv, table, and internet. Well we’ve had the room for one night. And apparently we weren’t supposed to play around in the other rooms, so they’ve locked it up again. Oops. Until it’s opened again, we’ve discovered an unsecured wireless internet connection that you can tap into if you’re sitting on a certain spot in the hall.

The "special spot" in the hall where we can get internet access.

In my room, however, I have the most spectacular view of the city. I can see the Hôtel de Ville, which is the town hall, Les Grandes Place (Place des Heros and La Grande Place), and the two churches. It is gorgeous during the day, but even more breathtaking at night. I’ve shot some videos and taken pictures of it, but unfortunately, the camera just can’t seem to capture its true beauty.

Here's a video of the view from my window--daytime

Here's the same view at night.