House hunting time

Just came back to house now and my housemate told me there were seven GROUPS came to look around in our house today, and there is another one coming tonight. When I passed DSU this morning there was a long queue outside the building, not to mention how many were inside.

It’s the house hunting time now. I didn’t experience this as we were required to live in college for first year and I was in Japan in second year. Thanks to my housemate Arata who did all the hunting stuff for us while three of us were in China and Japan last year. But the house we are living now is inherited from my friends who were living here before. We had quite a few house parties here and found it is a really nice house, so we took it, haha!

Living out is definitely recommended! Although you have to solve problems like billing and maintaining by yourself, but you enjoy more freedoms and, more important, with good housemates you can have a good family! Right, here is a thing. Good friends doesn’t always mean good housemates. In my case, I am very lucky to have four nice housemates, but I’ve heard quite a few stories about ‘housemate nightmare’. Sometimes your college mates or friends met in a bar could be very interesting and you just want to hang out with them all the time. But, living together is another story. One of my friends almost went crazy when his housemate keep ‘borrow’ his food without asking. So, think carefully when choosing housemates, especially for first year students. You just met them since last October and you are going to live with them for the next whole year? Think carefully!

There will be more people come over next few days, we’ve already got quite a few bookings, and the phone keep ringing. Sometimes it’s quite interesting to guide strangers in your house.

Ps. you can click the photo below to view some pics of our house & mates.