"Place of residence"

It is know place of residence as that space where you live. Maybe a house. Not always a home.

We started February 2020 with a new move. Lenka, Sabine and myself were about to live in a type of student' residence. It was a hotel in front of the sea which rented rooms from their older buildings. It was an experience... well, luckily it was just four weeks.

In our room, we had: three beds, two bedside tables, a small cupboard (where obviously we couldn´t fit the clothes of three for a year and so we basically hung some dresses and the rest kept on our suitcases and plastic boxes that our organization gave us), a plastic transparent chair, a desk with a small tv (that I don´t think any of us switched it on) and a kettle but no cups, a circular board for tea and two uncomfortable chairs, and a typical green hotel easy chairs. We also had our own bathroom. There was just one window and, because of the position of the building, we didn´t have much natural light (I could have forced the edition of the picture but I had to be honest with the reality). One of the walls was sharing with a dance school with lessons every day from eight in the morning to ten in the night.

Breakfast and dinner were included there at some specific timing. If you wanted to have dinner at another time, you could book it and, if you were lucky, someone may give it to you when you arrived tired of working. With the lunch... there were two microwaves that worked sometimes.

The positive point, the fascinating point, was that in two minutes you could literally be walking across the sand. In my despair, I started to run along the beach before going to work...

Going to work?... I sometimes forget that it was just a volunteering placement... I suppose that it is because it wasn´t just a volunteering placement. I had the most supportive team in my office and the young people we worked with were so amazing that made me forget that at some point of the day I had to be back to my "place of residence".