Dear America, Please Send Bleach.

Ok, so my title for this post was a bit of a joke...until I walked into the kitchen tonight and found roaches.  That's right, plural.  And then I died.  Anyway, without much further adieu, here are the initial photos of our place.  I do plan to update once further cleaning and decorating have happened.

This is the entry up to our apartment.  We're on the first floor, but it's still about 6 or 7 steps up.  To the left of the stairwell is where people tend to store their bikes, strollers, etc.

The door to the left belongs to the two single guys and the door to the right is ours.  The three married couples are in the same building, but they get a different wing and top sheets (I don't know why, but single beds only get a fitted sheet and duvet cover here - no flat sheets).

Entry view to our apartment - the kitchen is the door just inside to the right.

Kitchen view...

Washing machine - woot!  We may have to unplug our water heater in order to plug in the washing machine, and it may all be in code (or Chinese - you say tomato...), and we may have to hook up the hose to a weird nozzle in the sink, but it works!  And with the help of one of the nationals, we found some great-smelling detergent.

Isn't our little purple and gray refrigerator cute?

Here's part one of our big common area...the dining set.

Part two...the living room type space.  And yes, that lovely stripe on floral pattern mix?  Why, that's what we refer to as "double pretty" here in the middle kingdom.

As if we don't have enough reminders of how very watched we are here, we found these lovely stickers on our patio door.

Our cute, little bathroom...

My cell...errr, room!

 All of my clothes fit easily into this wardrobe after I downsized for the move.

That's it for now - we found a mall here in town and have been busy shopping and redecorating.  So, maybe I'll get some of those pictures up soon.  The place already looks a lot better than in the photos above.

But seriously, the first person to figure out how to get us gallons of bleach and/or bug bombs will be my hero. Forever.