This is in my place.  It use to be a swimming pool in the basement, but my landlords decided to take it out, do a little construction and rent it out.

You can see in this first picture here where the pool wall was.  It would have ran from where my shoes are, in the lower right corner, to the kitchen counter, lower left corner.  That means, that when someone wanted to get into the pool, they had to use a small ladder from the blue tiles (lower left corner) to climb the wall and then get into the pool.  You can see the ledge running around the far walls of my place.  This was the ledge or wall of the pool.  It makes for a nice shelf for all sorts of junk of mine!

This is my bathroom.  To the left, is the door going into the rest of the house.  All I have is a shower in the bathroom, but it is nice to not have to sit in a bath to bathe oneself with a shower head.  Too bad you can't see the cute tile with the penguin and whale on it.

You can see my 4.5 metre wide windows.  There are 4 windows, and the two outside ones open.  The bamboo blinds are not too bad, but one can see straight in at night when it is dark outside and light inside.  During the day they work as good blinds.  The dresser is something I found as Sperrmüll and then cleaned, sanded down and painted. I was thinking of painting it bright colours like, red, green, blue and a fourth colour, but perhaps I'll wait until the summer.  The bed, or now my couch, I found down the street, again as Sperrmüll.  It isn't the most comfortable for sleeping on but at the Sperrmüll prices, who can complain!  You can also see my red phone next to the lamp, it has been working for a week now, after I waited 5 weeks for Deutsche Telekom to install it.

Here you can see my favourite chair to the right.  And pretty much my living area.  I don't use the desk much yet, but perhaps if I started doing work from home.  The bed is a true Bayerisch bed, solid wood, and of course green with Bayerisch designs.

This is my kitchen area.  It is actually quite a nice kitchen and I am glad that my landlords put in an oven and not just a stove.  It makes cooking frozen food much easier!  They also lent me the round wooden table.  The fridge is from Walmart.

A better view of the kitchen.  I hope Keith and Karen notice that I brought my flippers and such with me.  Also, no worries mom, I am still eating my fruits.  (bought them just for the pictures!)

Here you can see my bathroom door (middle), and the door to the rest of the house (left brown). As you can see, I don't use that door, I use the glass door you saw in the first photo.  These are my two bikes.  The first one (left) I bought last October or so for 35 DM (~$22 CDN), the lock I bought cost 40 DM, so I always locked the bike up because I didn't want someone to steal my lock!  However, over the last few months, the rain has not been too kind to the bike, especially the chain (perhaps I shouldn't have 'cleaned' the oil off of it) which now falls off at least once whenever I ride it.  Therefore, in January when I was getting my skates sharpened in Frankfurt I decided I had had enough and wanted a new, better bike.  I actually would get a headache from riding the crappy first bike.  Don't ask why I bought it in Frankfurt and not in Darmstadt (repairs and service are now a headache for me) but I did.  Now I have front shocks and even a shock on my seat!  Now I worry that the bike will be stolen and not my lock.

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