So this is a post I have been meaning to write for approximately 4 months. Whoops. I wanted to kind of give a tour of the dorm and school to give everyone a general overview of where I live. I'm very visual, so blogging through pictures is the easiest way for me to do things. Look for a common thing in most of the pictures.
Our dorm is called Storchenblick. Or Storch. We live in a small village called Holzen. We are called Storch (Stork) due to the storch preserve located in Holzen. The building itself is pretty old. I'm not sure exactly when it was built, but the BFA community has used it as a dorm for around 40 years. Prior to being used by BFA it was a school building in the community and has served other purposes throughout the years. BFA currently has eight dorms. Four of the dorms are in downtown Kandern, the same town as the school, and the other four dorms are in smaller outlying villages.
Sidenote: The trough out front is used for dunking girls on their birthday. After they have been dunked they chase everyone else trying to give them sopping wet hugs.
As we go inside we enter the main level of the house. All of the common areas are on this level.
The dorm parents also live on this floor. They have a small apartment across from the kitchen area.
As you go up a floor you have 7 rooms for the girls, and 1 RA room. They all share a bathroom with three sinks, 2 toilets, and 2 showers. Well, it is actually one shower for now. One of the girls was cleaning the shower and used a little too much elbow grease and shattered the shower door.
After you walk up on more set of stairs you make it to my floor. I only have 5 student rooms on my hall, with 6 girls total. We also have a community bathroom with 2 showers, 2 sinks, and 2 toilets. One or two of the girls from the 2nd floor come up to my floor to shower since there are less people up here. More have been doing it since they are down to one shower downstairs.
Then my room is at the end of the hall. I am pretty fortunate to have a large room. Especially in a building this old. I am coming to really love this space as I try to make it home. I've filled it with a lot of things that make it feel comfy and welcoming to me. I've had some random living arrangements the past 6.5 years since I moved to college. This one has the best views so far.
So there is a basic tour of the house. I don't have good school photos right now and this post was getting to be a bit long anyway. I will try to continue the train of thought here next week with school photos and a post about what a "typical" week looks like here.
We will start with the outside of the dorm.
Isn't she a beaut?! Every dorm here is unique, and perhaps I am a little biased,
but I think mine is the best. Right down to the building itself.
Our dorm is called Storchenblick. Or Storch. We live in a small village called Holzen. We are called Storch (Stork) due to the storch preserve located in Holzen. The building itself is pretty old. I'm not sure exactly when it was built, but the BFA community has used it as a dorm for around 40 years. Prior to being used by BFA it was a school building in the community and has served other purposes throughout the years. BFA currently has eight dorms. Four of the dorms are in downtown Kandern, the same town as the school, and the other four dorms are in smaller outlying villages.
Sidenote: The trough out front is used for dunking girls on their birthday. After they have been dunked they chase everyone else trying to give them sopping wet hugs.
As we go inside we enter the main level of the house. All of the common areas are on this level.
Computer/ sitting area
Living room
Laundry room
guest bathroom and music room
Kitchen and Dining room
The dorm parents also live on this floor. They have a small apartment across from the kitchen area.
As you go up a floor you have 7 rooms for the girls, and 1 RA room. They all share a bathroom with three sinks, 2 toilets, and 2 showers. Well, it is actually one shower for now. One of the girls was cleaning the shower and used a little too much elbow grease and shattered the shower door.
After you walk up on more set of stairs you make it to my floor. I only have 5 student rooms on my hall, with 6 girls total. We also have a community bathroom with 2 showers, 2 sinks, and 2 toilets. One or two of the girls from the 2nd floor come up to my floor to shower since there are less people up here. More have been doing it since they are down to one shower downstairs.
My floor also has a small study room.
Then my room is at the end of the hall. I am pretty fortunate to have a large room. Especially in a building this old. I am coming to really love this space as I try to make it home. I've filled it with a lot of things that make it feel comfy and welcoming to me. I've had some random living arrangements the past 6.5 years since I moved to college. This one has the best views so far.
So there is a basic tour of the house. I don't have good school photos right now and this post was getting to be a bit long anyway. I will try to continue the train of thought here next week with school photos and a post about what a "typical" week looks like here.
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