Typically, on-campus housing is reserved for first-year teachers and their families. But because our school has relatively low turnover going into next year, there have been rumors floating around that there might be a chance we could stay on campus. In our household, March was dominated by discussions about whether or not we would stay on campus if an apartment was available.Moving off campus would allow us to experience a different corner of Hong Kong. It would also give us a little separation between work and home.
But if we stay on campus, the commute is really hard to beat. And the apartments the school provides are considerably larger than what we would get if we moved off campus. Plus, the on-campus housing is fully furnished. If we moved off campus, we would have to go through the effort of furnishing an apartment with everything including chairs, a sofa, a t.v., beds and a kitchen table.
Well, the word is in: the school has an apartment for us and we are staying. As a bonus, we will be moving into a three bedroom across the hall which will gives us even more room and will give the girls their own bedrooms.
Actually, three of the four families currently on our wing of the seventh floor will be staying next year. So we will be able to keep (mostly) intact the community that has developed here over the last eight months. Nice.
With three bedrooms, that means you will have plenty of privacy when you come to visit.
-Jack
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