A broad....abroad!: My New Flat!

I finally found a place to live! One of the professors who I will be teaching with, Carmen, carted me around the entire city looking at flats, or pisos. She set up visits and appointments for me, and went with me to each one. She is such a great lady. Although we looked at all different types of pisos; the old part of the city, the modern part of the city, all girls, all boys, boys and girls, Germans, Spaniards, Italians; I decided to live in a small but very cute flat with another girl in my program. At first I was determined to live with Spaniards, to force myself to talk the language and meet some Spanish friends, but there were some conditions I could not get around.

1. Most young people here are students of the University of Santiago and many are serious students. One girl even said guests were welcome but only the roommates sleep or cook in the flat. What about all the people I had fervently harassed to come visit me? What if I wanted to have friends over to make dinner?
2. Most students had a contract to live in the piso until July, and they wanted to find someone with the same schedule. I did not want to spend an extra two months rent when that money could go to traveling somewhere! Or my plane ticket home....

Anyway, I had to make a decision because I could tell Carmen was getting a little frustrated with me (most of you know I have the biggest problem making decisions...now so does Carmen) I decided to live with Melissa and know it was a great decision! She is such a nice, easy going person and we are getting along great.
Here are some pictures of our new pad: