living in Sao Paulo

Here you get a first impression of my room. In fact it is not much bigger than what you see on that picture. I'm living on about 5-6 qm at the moment. But for a year that's quite OK (less space to accumulate stuff I won't be able to bringt back after all). And, as you see, even a room as tiny at that one can be used as sleeping room, dressing room (although it's hard to reach the cupboard over the bed) and study hall (note the tea pot on my desk!). Oh, and it can turn into a guest room as well. On the floor is just enough space to squeeze in another matress (although part of it ends up in the bathroom). So, if anyone plans to stop by in Sao Paulo... just give me a call.

Ok, and here you see our cleaning plan. I mean, we are four girls and one boy living together. And suddenly without a housemaid or a dearly caring mother at hand to do the dishes and whatever cleaning needed, our apartement tended to be quite a mess. 'till the german girl came. Because she organized a plan how to do the cleaning and even created a poster in the kitchen so that no one might forget: everyone cleans his/her own dishes, every week one of us is responsable for cleaning the whole apartment, once a month the windows are due as well (Sao Paulo is reeeeaally dirty). We'll see how the plan works out. Up to know no one complained (or are they afraid to?).