Alec | Bella |
The flat was in a great position, on a hill, overlooking the town. It was a large, elegant flat, and I had a deal with the owner where I paid a lower rent and he sometimes slept there when he was in town. Even so, I didn’t have enough money for the rent and tuition and food and everything, so I had to take on a part-time job. But I managed to get a lot of work done there, including my dissertation, and I have fond memories of the place, and the view. | The good thing about my student flat was that it was cheap. That’s not surprising, since it was in a terrible condition. No-one had invested in it for years. In fact, when I visited the place again a couple of years ago, it was no longer there! There was a block of flats in its place, of course. But, despite everything, I loved living there. I felt completely free there, alone in a place of my own, with no-one to tell me what to do. Ah, the good old days. |
Caleb | Doris |
I shared a fabulous apartment; everything was new, the bathroom, the kitchen, the lighting. And it was in a beautiful building; they had kept the look of the outside walls intact during the renovation. And it was close to my faculty building, so I didn’t lose time travelling to lectures. But my course of studies was much harder than I expected, and when the person I was sharing with decided to move, there was no way I could keep paying the rent so I left both the apartment and university. | It was easy to find the block of flats where I lived – it was the only one in the street! The rest of the street consisted of old houses waiting to be knocked down to make way for hi-tech flats like mine. My flat belonged to a friend of my father’s, and he let me stay there to look after it until he moved in. There were more students in the flat next door, and they seemed to spend all their time partying, but since they said I was free to join them, I couldn’t complain. |
Edgar | Fiona |
I shared a flat with some other students. It was a big flat but the others had loads of friends who kept on visiting and before long it was like living in the central railway station. Things often got out of control, and the neighbours, a retired couple, kept banging on the walls to complain. One time there was a party in the flat where people got drunk and wrecked the place. The flat generally got so crowded I felt closed in, like I couldn’t breathe, and I desperately needed somewhere where I could have some space of my own and get some work done, so I moved out. | My first flat was tiny – one room, which was also my kitchen and bedroom. It was cheap but was not in a good part of town. I felt miserable there and needed company, so I’d spend the day in the faculty building and only go back in order to sleep, which wasn’t easy, considering the passing trains and the gangs hanging around outside, with their ghetto blasters blaring rap and hip-hop. I didn’t stay there long. The area went from bad to worse, and the house where I was is now empty, its windows broken. |
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