A Tour of the Castle

For all of my readers in Salford, this may be a bit boring, and I apologise.  For my readers not in Salford,  Welcome to Castle Irwell!  Castle Irwell Student Village is Salford Uni's largest student accomodation community, hosting over 1,000 students.  It contains a mix of British and international students and undergraduate and graduate students.  It's only a mile away from the main uni campus and is conveniently located near a few convenience marts and other stores.

To familiarise yourself with the area, this is the path I walk back from uni everyday:

I walk down Seaford Road and at the end, I turn right...

...on to Cromwell Road.  That red brick building is reception, which I walk past to get into the neighbourhood...

...and I walk down this winding road...

...a bit further, then I veer off to the left.

I walk between these two houses towards the garden just beyond them...

...and when I turn right, my lovely, homey House 46 comes in to view.  It's on the right behind the little tree.

My perfect, wonderful, little bedroom in its natural state,
messy and very lived-in.

All the houses here are set up the same way.  They all have three floors with two showers, two toilets, a dirning room, and a kitchen.  And there are eleven bedrooms, each with a bed, wardrobe, desk, and washbasin.  With eleven people living in one house, keeping everything clean can be a challenge, but I happen to have really lovely housemates, and we all pitch in to keep things tidy.  When we have a party, we team up to tidy before the party starts and we gather to clean up together the next day.  It works out really, really well.

The kitchen in my house, looking fairly clean

The dining room in House 46

Castle Irwell is a great place for parties.  You can get to know your neighbors here really well, and all of my neighbors are erasmus or international students, meaning everyone I live near is always up for a good party.  There's a party every weekend, and we love to mix things up with fun themes for fancy dress and decorations.  We're always seeing the same faces at parties, and of course always having a good time.  I'm moving out on 22 May, and I am really going to miss it a lot.  House 46 is my home, room 44 is my own little space.  Two more days, two more nights in my bed.  And then I'm off to Europe!

Some firends with me at a party in the fantastic House 46