Enter Roommate Number Two

So do you want to hear the good news first, or the funny news?

You took too long to answer so now I get to choose.

The good news is that my other roommate showed up today.  She's a very nice girl from Spain, on a first impression I think she speaks very good English.  I think she said her name was Alicia, but she has an accent from Spain and I'm not very familiar with that accent so I guess I will have to recheck on that. (It sounded like Aleethia or something but if I remember correctly, with a Spanish accent all of the S sounds turn to TH sounds.  Don't quote me on that.)  She is 19 years old (will be 20 next month) and she will be here for the entire year.

The funny news?  Well, she walked in the door and said, hi I'm your new roommate but... I have the single room.  So I take her to the single room where Sara is, we knock on the door and have a little discussion. They were both very reasonable about it, but I told them that in my personal opinion, Alicia is correct and she has the single room.  Sara was not entirely happy with that but she moved all of her stuff to the double room and let Alicia move into the single.

The evidence?  I went and got my key, and tried it in the door to the single room.  Apparently all three keys work for both rooms. Then, the rooms are numbered.  The single room has a 1 on it, my room has a 2 and a 3.  The little tags that came on our keys have A, B and C.  Mine is B.  Sara has C and Alicia has A.  It seemed to me that A would correspond with 1.   Last, Sara said she is paying €355 for her room, and Alicia said she is paying €400.  I am also paying €355 a month.  Seems reasonable that a person with their own room would have higher rent than the persons sharing a room.

I think Alicia's mother drove her up from Spain, as she was with her when she arrived and she stayed to help her get unpacked, then they left the apartment. I think that's very sweet, I wish my mommy could have brought me too. That wouldn't make much sense though. While we waited for Sara to get all of her stuff out of the single room, I stood outside with the two of them and we talked a bit.  Alicia said she studied French for 4 years but never really caught on to that, she has been studying Italian for the last year and she has been learning English since she was very young.  I'm glad, because I don't know if I could deal with living with two people who have a very limited grasp on any of the languages I can speak.

They also asked me where I was from, followed up by how I ended up all the way over here. And I told them about my semester in France, and my cancelled semester in Spain, and why I decided that university in Europe would be better. They appeared to think it was interesting but maybe they were just faking it.

So, I am happy with my roommates. And even though Sara wants to go talk to DUWO about the fact that she thought she was getting a room by herself, I think everything will be just fine.