This is creepy. I cannot sleep. I have stayed in hostels before, but never in a shared room. The room is really just a rectangle with beds along a wall, stacked 3 high and 3 across. Ariel was right when she said the beds were like those in the concentration camps.
Under each column of 3 beds, there are an equal number of drawers. These drawers are deceiving. They are really lockers. There is just enough space between the beds and the bare wall to open your locker and take out your things.
The shower situation is probably the most daunting for me. As my roommates from last year can attest, I am usually very reserved with my shower routine when my bathroom is not directly connected to my single-person room. It took months for me to enter and exit the bathroom in anything but fully clothed. Only at the end of 2 semesters living together did I start wearing only undergarments going from my closet to the bathroom.
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| downstairs |
So, here I am having to share showers with a whole bunch of people I have never met. With only flimsy plastic curtains separating us. There's almost no space to put any of my clothes, and I can't put on my underwear in the shower because the floor turns into a bathtub. I'm counting down the days I have to shower here.
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| Traveller's Bar, downstairs |
That said, the atmosphere downstairs is really chill with good music and drinks. There's also a kitchen where we are making dinner tonight. And the people are nice and from around the world.
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