Our Home-Week Five

SO MUCH LUXURY!

We returned to Delhi after arriving by overnight train and spent 4 glorious hours in the Taj before venturing out that morning to find an apartment. Aileen and I took advantage of our time and had luxurious showers. After that, we lounged in robes while drinking tea and watching Harry Potter. It was so opulent. It was glorious. We then put on our adventure pants and got ready for a long day of apartment hunting.

My bed

So finding a 4 bedroom apartment for a decent price in Delhi is next to impossible. What made it more impossible was that our realtor wasn’t exactly the sharpest crayon in the box. The first house we saw on our first day of apartment hunting was one we had found for ourselves. Everything else we were shown was either way too expensive/opulent (one landlord told us “One cannot be happy here if one does not spend 80000 rupees on rent”) or didn’t have enough rooms to house the 4 of us, plus our random visiting boyfriends or girlfriends. After two days of searching, and spending time with our awesome facilitator/friend Swati, we ended up with the first apartment, a place in Sheikh Sarai Phase 1. Our landlord grew up in this apartment, and it has a ton of charm (which is what we tell ourselves every time we find a leaking pipe, a broken water filter, ants/cockroaches/bugs of all sorts, useless washing machine, and broken lights). It has three rooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen, two bathrooms, and a rooftop.

My bedroom wall

We signed the lease Monday afternoon and moved in on Tuesday afternoon. We had Tuesday night and all of Wednesday to get the apartment ready, because Thursday meant we started our first day of school. After we moved in, our landlord then invited us to lunch, which, while delicious, lasted forever, and by the time we finished we knew there would be no time that night to do anything productive towards the apartment. However, we did have time…TO SEE HARRY POTTER SEVEN PART 2 !!

Living Room

Best day of my life. We may not have budgeted our time correctly, as it probably would have made sense if we had, oh, I don’t know, unpacked any of our bags, but HP came first, and it was so worth it. From tears to laughter, victorious moments to heartbreaking ones, I was an emotional wreck. Oh Harry Potter, you slay me.

Cabinet of things we love...
lovers, liquor, and chocolate :)

Wednesday was spent going all over town (Malviya Nagar Market) and purchasing everything we would need the next day, as well as trying to outfit our house with basic supplies like toilet paper and dishes.  We went to school the next two days, and then spent the weekend finishing up our purchasing of household goods and accessories. Located throughout are pictures of our humble abode J