Farewell and Adieu… Part 1 [G06 Apartment]

As I get ready to embark yet another Journey... I find myself yet again in the situation where I have to leave (almost) everything behind, pack light and head off, it was a lot easier last time because I didn’t have as much invested in the place where I was living.

So to provide a bit of background G06 was “the apartment”, she was nice, warm and cosy. She was my first …. The first apartment I ever had a say in choosing, furniture, managing, and most importantly setting the rules, bringing together the guys, organising the furniture and for the first time since I left my parents place at 16 that I felt I had a home so-to-speak, a place that I can come back to If I was ever to travel, a place where I can hang ridiculous posters and change anything I didn’t like.

And for those you have been there, you would know there is always a bunch of us having a good time either over a nice Summer night sheesha, an intense card game, a competitive XBOX game, a last minute Sunday BBQ when the weather allows it, endless movie nights, Mint Tea, non-alcoholic Holsten, and very loud political conversations … Oh Oh Oh and most noticeably chocolates which for some reason were bought on almost a daily basis ( that one’s for you Yousef) and the list just goes on …

It was not easy leaving G06, especially as we packed everything, every item had its own little memory, like the TV where Mo and Yousef found outside a building and brought it home, and it was only a year later when Zaid was staying with us that he got fed up with the fuzziness and decided to get it a cable so we can watch clear TV, or the Ikea bookshelf that over time become a place for mail, keys, uni notes and other misc objects … (we found 5 3D glasses, and my Safeway tag).

But in the end … All good things come to an end … Such is life and this was too good to be an exception, as I move on I can only hope that the next place I settle down in is as warm and cosy as G06.