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Some could hardly wait, others would have liked to stayed with mom and dad a little longer. Nevertheless we all have to face it one day: leave the house of your parents, go and live on your own! I put an exclamation mark behind this phrase, as you can see, to emphasise that I belong to the first category of people. Living on your own, arranging your own things and minding your own business and there is nothing that cannot be done: it is just great!
I live in a student house in the centre of Wageningen with 7 other students from different studies and with various backgrounds. Some are members of a student association whilst others enjoying sporting or hanging out with friends in a pub.
Every evening dinner is ready: sometimes you are the cook and often it is one of your room mates that has prepared dinner this time. Very easy and especially very pleasant, sharing dinner together. Every day at least five people will be home and when friends drop over as well, it can happen that you are preparing dinner for about 14 people…
After dinner we often share a cup of tea or coffee or we watch a movie on tv. ‘I am going to visit some of my friends’, someone says, whilst someone else quickly sneaks onto the now partly empty couch.
During summer we often have a barbecue together, or we drink special beer on the terrace on our roof. It may sound odd, but when you live so close together, you become friends without any effort: it just happens. There is always someone to share stories with or someone you can tease with a little joke. Only recently three of us decided they wanted to change the entire living room and when everybody else arrived home the room was not painted in white anymore, but decorated with shiny green paint. Like is sad: there is nothing that cannot be done!
Erik
