My apartment in Dalian

I saw my apartment for the first time up close yesterday. I only saw the pictures taken inside and it looked cozy... Now, the truth is revealed.

This is how it looks like from The outside. 5 storeys high. Surrounded by old looking buildings and dead looking tree (Well, Spring just started, I bet in 2 months time, the trees will be all Greeny).















You enter the building from the back. Suddently, I have a really bad feeling about this. The surrounding is not really 'clean'. Dried leaves and branches everywhere. The cement is old and grey and the railings on the stairs is all rusted.














Argh.. I hate to be proven right this time. This is the stairs going up. Smells funky. Dried leaves can be seen on the stairs and the lighting is poor. Very dark and looks dangerous. I have to climb up to the 4th Floor... Where my unit is. And ironically, this building is also No 4. (Seems like lots of 4s in my life)














Here's another view of the dark, scary, smelly, ugly, slimy and windy stairs. The walls are unfinished and crude. The floor looks like it have not been sweeped since 40 years ago. And as usual, you can see people's belongings been stored on the public walkway.















Finally, at the 4th Floor... here is my unit. The one on the left. (Dark Brown metal door). I really looked bad from the outside...

But.. the surprise awaits you all in the inside... Check out my next blog :P