Settling down

After my first night in that disastruous guesthouse I made sure to have a look at the new place first. There are several agencies in Tokyo that are specialized in providing short or longer term furnished accomodation. I first surfed a couple of sites on the internet to check availability and prices. I again wanted something that is not too far off and not outrageously expensive. There was not much available on such short notice, but "Sakura House" did have a few suitable openings. About double the price than the first place (around 800 CHF/month), but much nicer looking too. I decided for a guesthouse in Ekota, about 15 minutes by subway from Shinjuku.
The house is in a quiet residential area and has 10 bedrooms, three bathrooms and three toilets, a livingroom and a big kitchen. My room is about as big as the one in Fukuoka, so not super spacious, but fine enough.
I have quite a few housemates of course. A couple of Americans, a guy from Mexico and a Dutch and Italian guy. It's quite fun to come home in the evening and hang out in the livingroom with flatmates, comment on stupid tv shows and do other random things. Funnily enough usually everybody hanging around in the livingroom also has a Japanese book in front of him and her and tries to study besides... Well, I have some victims for the oral exercises like that. Karen, Michael (US), Sander (Dutch) and Daniel (Mexico) are the ones that are around most and the most social minded so far. They're fun to be with, really can't complain. Patrick (US) is a recruiter and terribly busy. Comes home late, goes right to bed and gets up very early. Japanese lifestyle I guess. The girl next to me, Susan, is the one I like least so far. Walks around with a super pissed look on here face, doesn't bother to say a friendly word, quarrels with her boyfriend all the time (in the room next to my) and stomps around at night and wakes people up. Some others are getting a bit annoyed too... Ah, there is an Irish guy here too, but he is really invisible. Comes home says briefly "hi" and disappears into his room, not to be heard or seen again.
Michael has been in the house for quite some time and he's a good source for stories on former housemates. It seems that the current combination is rather a decently quiet one. One former housemate had a Japanese girlfriend and when he broke up with her she started stalking him. She had the doorcode and would just come into the house whenever she wanted. Or she started banging on his or other people's door at night. So they had to urge "Sakura House" to change the door code asap. Another housemates, in the room next to Michael's, operated some "business" in the house. She advertised her "services" on the internet and performed them in her room. Michael described it as "a business that involved the use of whips and chains". She was soon voted out of the house too...
http://www.sakura-house.com/english/premise/shin_egota.php