128. Moving

Will and Matt have moved out. Their contracts expired at the end of September. I knew this but I was not sure whether they would really move out because I did not see them packing their belongings at all. But finally they left last week.

I did not know when Matt evacuated completely. So we did not say good bye. But Will left a message to Alex and me... which was written on a piece of a cardboard box :-)

I was supposed to move into Will’s room, a girl into my room and another girl into Matt’s room. The landlady was saying that the girl would be moving into my room on the weekend (3rd October), so I was thinking to move my stuff one day before. However, when I was on campus on 31st September, I got a message from the landlady that the girl would be coming on 1st! Too soon!! I hurried back home and started moving.

My old room was a 3.8 tatami-mat room!! 1 tatami mat is about 0.9 x 1.8 m. So, 3.8 tatami mats are 6.156 square metres. The first word of my friend who visited was "Oh, small" (hahaha). Yeah, surprisingly small^^

But my new room is a double room with a double bed, which is equal to 6.7 tatami mats (10.85 square metres). I have more space than last year though there are no shelves and not enough storage. So, I have to place files and books on the floor and some stationeries in a box. It is so funny and weird that each time I move a house, my belongings increase. Usually it should be opposite.

I have been in this room for a week so far... it is nice and cosy.

One thing I feel sorry to other housemates is that all of us pay the same rent price even if the room size is different. The smallest room is even smaller than half the size of my room and is on the ground floor plus facing west.

Sorry about that (><) but you can take my room next year because I will be moving out!

Momoko