Rua Atibaia, new home

The move went quite well. After finally making "American Breakfast" for my host family (baked frech toast with jam--no syrup in brasil!--, cheesy scrambled eggs and organge juice) I dropped my stuff off on Saturday afternoon and left right away to São Paulo for the weekend. I got back around midnight on Sunday and re-aranged the furniture in my room 'til 2 in the morning. With everything in order the room is looking good, much better than it did before. The rest of the house is awesome... the best part is the backyard. There are 5 other women that live there in 3 rooms upstairs (in addition to the owner, an older woman in her 60s). The major downfall is that I'm not supposed to have guys over (and I don't mean at night, just at anytime of the day-- for example, have a group over for drinks before going out, watching a movie with friends, etc). This is kind of hard for me to accept because I am paying for a room there, but I still have to live by an older woman´s rules. But because I'm in the maid's quarters I'm a bit isolated from everything, so I just go in and out as a I please. And it's so close to where I work and I no longer have to worry about getting home safely at night. Click on the collage to enlarge. My room is on the right.