Dorm

I live in the 留学生宿舍 or Overseas Student Dormitory. Here is a tour. Part of the reason I'm doing this is that a few weeks ago my mom just realized I dry my clothes on a balcony outside. I actually forgot to take a photos of the balconies. The dorms are the nicest on campus.



We have our own fuwuyuan, or server, on our floor. She unlocks doors and helps with various other problems. This is her station.


Inside that room you can see above, is one of the most important things in the dorm. It's the hot water machine, its open 24 hours a day, so we can have drinking water whenever we need it. The water here isn't really potable, most people boil their water.


Lovely view from the roof, where if it's dry out, you can dry clothes.


This is the kitchen. We have three gas burners, and a sink. Tradiotional Chinese cooking doesn't involved any baking at all. Baking is done now in bakeries and most homes don't have an oven of any kind. Woks need really high heat, so every one has gas burners too.


Kitchen sink


This is just the view of the common area. The girls bathroom is in the photo. Next to it is the laundry room, kitchen and then boys bathroom. All Chinese homes seem obsessed with tiled floors, walls and sometimes ceilings.


Half the dorm is curved back onto itself.


By the water machine, the lobby at the top of the stairs.


Into the girls bathroom.



There you go, white tiles. The girls bathroom has two squatty pottys and two showers. The shower has hot and cold water. But it's got no water pressure, the water falls out of the wide old fashioned shower heads. It's fine. Cold lately, the bathroom window stays open at all times, so it dries inside.


Tinny little washing machines. All in Chinese too, so read carefully.


The long sink in the washing room, for handwashing clothes.


In the common area. If you keep walking my room is the fifth or sixth door on the right from here.