Moving into a completely unfurnished apartment may be a little strange at the beginning for somebody who has not got any furniture. BUT: You should not forget things as great as craigslist or even 'Housewarming Parties'...
For those who do not know about those (I didn't either before coming here...):
Ccraigslist is a website that you could compare to ebay only without auctions. So you can offer everything online, from jobs to cars and paintings to furniture, and this can be pretty helpful for students looking for every different kind of stuff. Like us...
The Housewarming Party was offered to all international students during the orientation. Basically it was a run on different household items and pieces of furniture that were donated by families living in Lawrence. This means there was a little fight for the better items among the probably 80 present students. I'm actually a little proud to say that I won the fight with 20-40 chinese men for the best vacuum cleaner they had!
The pictures show some of the other items we could get! As you can see on there most of the things are pretty wrecked up, but as they say: 'Beggars can't be choosers!'... After all I even got myself a desk with a pretty nice chair, which I had to buy though.
Anyway, one of the funniest things so far was (and it still is) going shopping without having a car. This can be okay if you only wanna buy smaller stuff, but if not (and we are pretty good in overloading ourselves) it may sometimes look a little funny... But this is at least some entertainment for the people around us, especially on the street.
One last thing to make sure that nobody at home must be afraid I'm gonna starve to death:
Our fridge!
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