We are pleased to say that we have furniture. This is not to say that we didn’t have any before, but in the words of our coworker Liz, we were living an “ascetic lifestyle.” We now have a couch, two armchairs, a desk, and a few schkafs (movable closet/wardrobes). We hardly know what to do with ourselves. Our bedroom and living room definitely seemed to get smaller, but also more comfortable in the process.
It was quite an experience to move the stuff down from Andrew’s 5th floor apartment and then up to ours on the 4th floor. We fit all his stuff into 2 vanloads and when they were full Andrew rode in the little leg space of the desk. Some of it will go to Zaporozhye, but we decided to keep about half.
We experienced what I would suppose is an MCC tradition: scavenging through workers’ stuff when they leave. Oh what fun. Due to the fact that MCC worker’s terms are only 3 years, people are coming and going rather frequently. Now, to make a blanket generalization, workers are generally frugal and when we see something that we can get for free, we jump at the opportunity. The list of items that we scavenged is quite large, and our apartment feels much more like home.
Dave
