So, I’ve moved-finally! I have officially graduated from dorm life once and for all and now living in an apartment. It’s strange because this is the first time I’ve lived off-campus. The fact that I’m renting my first apartment and doing it in a foreign country makes me realize how independent I have become. Oh, the rewards of living abroad.

While I enjoyed my experience for the most part at the dorms in UDLA and partially at Valpo, I have missed my privacy. Also, I’m a student on a budget and let’s just stay dorms aren’t the cheapest way of living. Anyways, when I made plans to go live off-semester, I teamed up with my friend (and current roommate) Martina and she discovered a nice apartment. Basically, it’s a huge building that looks like a house but isn’t but technically not an apartment complex but it has apartments. Don’t worry, these kinds of technicalities aren’t important.

Our apartment is located about 5 minutes from campus on a quiet road. Martina and I live in the upper apartment. It’s simple, small, cozy and I love it. The interior is covered in brick just like the outside of my house in the USA so I always keep a piece of my home in my heart. My room is tiny but for whatever reason, it’s perfect.

Although it does get chilly in the apartment, the window that faces the street always embraces the sunlight throughout the day and cheers up the place. Our neighbors are from Mexico, France, Austria, Germany and other places. We’re a rather multicultural group. Our couch is yellow and comfortable and my new favorite place for writing. The internet is being stubborn today, but pics will come soon!

Being an Indiana girl, I love the simple things in life and this apartment for just starting out on my own, is perfect. Perhaps the fact that I’m starting another semester in a new place (my own place) makes the semester that more exciting. Whatever the reason, I’m happy in my simple, small, lovely apartment on a quiet street in Mexico. They say you gotta start somewhere. Well, this is the somewhere that I feel called to be.

Saludos xoxo