One step closer to where? to my own apartment in Dortmund! Yeay! I was well informed that it is very common to get an empty apartment in Germany, as empty as no chair, no table, no bed etc (this is very opposite of Asian’s apartment) so I wasn’t surprise to find out that I need to buy all the stuffs in IKEA but in other way this will be my style! yuhuuuu let’s the decoration begin!
Luckily, Julia was with me the whole time we furnished this apartment and she did it the Germans way! We came to the apartment together to do some measurement, which it never exist in my mind because I’ll just do the Asian way, meaning arrived at the apartment and do some observation in my mind and good to go! while she really took out measurement tape, and measure every possible side you can found and wrote it on a piece of paper so when we go to IKEA we will be able to know what size fits and what doesn’t.
We spent 3.5 hours there! all with mask on, perhaps it was adrenaline rush so at that moment I don’t feel suffocate but the time when I should pay I started to fill the suffocation mwahaha maybe it’s because I need to release some money 😉 we didn’t even have time to had dinner there! we were tired and hungry for real!
Not every stuff can get into Julia’s car obviously so we needed the 师傅 haha-I started to miss typing in Chinese 😉 I mean the IKEA guy to come and delivered it to us. And we do need this service! because my apartment is located in 3rd floor without elevator and the stairs are quiet steep so there is no way in heaven I’m gonna carry it all there.
Due to Corona the IKEA guy was only able to put it in front of my door but they are not allowed to come inside the apartment, on top of that in order to have the 师傅 assemble it for us, we need to pay additional fee which me and Julia think it’s not necessary, all the stuff wasn’t so complicated and we only need screwdrivers and…. maybe hexkey and…. I think that was it! we are in the professional tool industry and we do have Promat tools! besides, we also want to prove to our guys a.k.a Stefan and Christian who quote “This is not a problem of the tools” helloooooo we can do it!
But first, we need to drink! there is a kind of store in the ground floor but its rather weird one, there was no bottle of water, orange juice or even a diet coke! they only have wine and other alcoholic drinks, so these are the healthier drinks I could find 😉
Getting ready of our Promat tools and…. we roll!
I forgot how long did it takes us but with (almost) all furniture arrived and we placed is where it should be, it started to feel cozy. There will still be a shelf that I still need to wait until October because it was out of stock but at least we managed to get the ground of it 😉