hello and welcome back to my channel my name is sarah if you are new here i'm currently on my
semester award in italy i'm living in a small town in laguardia for three months i've done
two of them now and then i'm moving to florence so another room tour florence will be coming but for
now i'm going to do a tour of my room in Liguria for you guys today so yeah i hope you enjoy it
please subscribe to my channel if you haven't done already it really helps me out and let's
get into it so this house apparently belongs to a guy who lives in new york but he's renting it out
this is technically an apartment building but this has like three bedrooms i'm just gonna show you
this bedroom for today because it's my room you know so yeah most of the things in this room to
be honest aren't mine so i'm not going to show you a great deal of those things but obviously
i'll show you all the things which are mine the things which i have done to make this room feel
a bit more like home for myself so yeah at the back i didn't put these on i don't know drink
coca-cola and a lion sticker don't know what that is but cool most of my cosmetics from the bathroom
because there isn't actually a mirror in this room but yeah i'll show you the bathroom in a bit
got my classic uni of bath keep cup because it just reminds me of home you know i've got
some body lotion from lush here in italy i just think it's so cool how it's written in Italian;
got some trainers some sandals some doc martens my only pair of waterproof shoes so yeah i've
been wearing them quite a lot recently because it has been raining quite a lot more casual
trainers i bought these when i was here because i didn't actually own a pair of sandals before
very little of this is mine i've just got some chewing gum and this is where i keep all of my
earrings i just bought this little box from tiger i actually think it's quite a good way
of transporting earrings probably not other jewellery because it would still tangle like
necklaces and bracelets but for earrings it's good and i've got my watch my headphones my
sterling because i brought some sterling intentionally just in case i'm at the airport and
i need to buy a sandwich or something i've got some money that i can spend if they don't take
cards and that rare event yeah there's literally no point in carrying british money around in
italy so yeah i just keep it there and then i just keep my backpack rucksack and my laptop bag here
because i need those things every day so it's just good to have them in a place where i know
where they are and then here i just keep loads of random stuff i've got copious amounts of
hand gel who hasn't at the moment i've got masks which i just keep them all in this bag because
honestly it's just a good way of organizing them so i put all my clean masks in there
and then i just put all of my dirty masks with the rest of my dirty clothes in this bag which is
attached to the handle of the door so yeah i just know that all of the stuff which i need to wash is
in there just loads of random cosmetic stuff some biscuits and then some detergent
because it's just so useful to have them in little capsules like that i don't have to lug
a great thing around if i've still got some left that's a bit boring then this is just a couple of
things which don't hang as easily on my rail a few clothes which i've decided are time to
give away and of course as i said i haven't got that much luggage room so yeah i can't
take everything back with me winter clothes even though i'm gonna be here for like six months and
that's in like three seasons i did still manage for everything in one suitcase which i'm honestly
really proud of so yeah packing cubes are a great help pro tip if you don't want to take that much
luggage this isn't mine this isn't mine this isn't mine this is just where i've shopped my suitcase
as you can see it's it's not a great size it's like a medium-ish size and this is my bed i really
appreciate how i have a double bed because i don't have a double bed at my parents' house i have one
in my second year of uni which honestly just felt like such a luxury having a double bed all to
myself so yeah it is actually getting a bit cooler now so i've got like a bed sheet and i've just put
a blanket on top the bedding here is really mismatched okay i mean like the bedding came with
the house none of this is actually mine so i just sort of use what happened to be available at the
time when i was changing my sheets so yeah i don't know i think that it's reasonably coordinated if
you don't look at the pillow underneath here but you know what i kind of like the way that it's a
bit mismatched i guess it kind of gives the room a bit of character you know so now we come to
my desk if you guys didn't know i was actually in a different apartment for my first month here
but i'm in this apartment for the rest of my time that i'm staying here now and i have been here for
pretty much the past month so yeah that's why i thought it would be worth doing a room tour
here and not necessarily at my other place at my previous apartment i didn't actually have a desk
so i just really appreciate how i have somewhere to work on my uni assignments from as well as any
homework which i get from my italian classes here and editing videos stuff like that i just really
appreciate that it didn't come with the chair so i had to bring this one in from the kitchen but
there's only three of us who would live in here at the same time and there are four kitchen chairs
so i figured that this would be okay just to move this here you know this has a really nice view of
the sort of terrace (there is) actually a little lemon tree there which i just think is so cute
because you wouldn't really get lemon trees in the uk which aren't under glass I hang my clothes out
here when i've washed them i don't have a notice board here of course but i bought some post-its
from tiger and i just really like to put things up reminders motivational quotes etc so yeah i put
some post-it notes up there i just think it makes the place look a bit more sort of i don't know
decorated and it's a good substitute for a notice board and when i take it off there's like the glue
doesn't stick or anything so i just think that's quite good i haven't actually taken that many
books to italy in terms of like books to read i haven't actually taken any they're all on my phone
but i'm trying to learn french as you guys probably already know if you've watched me for
a while so i've just got my french books here and my italian books for my italian classes here this
book is for planning youtube videos and stuff and i actually decided to buy myself a book for german
because even though my german level is obviously a lot higher than my italian level i'm still nowhere
near fluent and i still honestly still struggle to have some conversations in german if my videos
in german haven't made that already apparent so i decided that that would be a good investment like
i've decided it's the italian equivalent of ryman this is just a makeshift pencil part like this is
just a cup that i found in the kitchen and i put all of my spare pens and pencils in there
and this is my pencil case which i take everywhere and a funny thing is that the light for this
room is actually on the other side of the door and there isn't a switch like near the bed so
if i want to switch on and off like near the bed then i have to use this but it's not the end
of the world you know okay guys i didn't realize this i'm not in frame at all i didn't realize this
but on mainland europe it's not just in switzerland because i know that switzerland
have different plugs but on mainland europe there are actually different types of electrical plugs
and i thought they were all the same *unplugs* but they're not yeah obviously
in the uk if you guys aren't familiar with uk plug so i know i have an audience from like all
over the world so there is a chance that some of you watching wouldn't be familiar with the uk blog
so uk plug looks like this i don't know if this is interesting or not but i wanted to show you
guys anyway i had basically only been to germany and like northern europe before going to italy
for the first time last april i think so yeah this is like the standard plug which you would
find works in like germany scandinavia probably france i haven't been to france for a while but
in italy the plugs are often more like this so there's sort of three plugs often you can
also fit two plugs in like that this did not fit in there no matter how hard i tried and it got to
the point where i was like i'm gonna break this if i try again my friend who knows a lot more
about this was like yeah Sarah you need to buy an adapter so i had to buy an adapter from eu to
eu if someone could explain to me please why there are different plugs on mainland europe then
please explain because i thought that they were all the same but they're not so yeah yeah this
doesn't really look that safe so i only use this to charge my stuff when i'm actually at
home because obviously i don't want to fire and stuff so if i want to charge my phone overnight
then i just charge it using this which i got from good old tiger so yeah but this is a good way of
charging everything at the same time so yeah look it it looks like it's coming out and that's just
so dangerous to me i don't know if you guys think it looks dangerous but to me that looks dangerous
so yeah sorry if that was boring at all but if any of you guys are thinking of coming to italy
and you haven't maybe been to italy that much hopefully i've maybe sort of given you a bit of
a feel as to what electrical plugs are like here they're not always the same as ones which
you would get in germany for example just in here are basically all of the clothes which i've bought
apart from the ones which you saw in there here is the bathroom so i'm just going to do a brief tour
of this because honestly there isn't that much to see again there's a nice view of the terrace
basically anything that involves a mirror i put here so i've got some makeup stuff and honestly
i used to have some housemates but they finished their course i have been left quite a few things
to use anything from food to toilet paper to laundry wash i just love it i've got so much free
stuff which i'm not complaining about you know so i use solid shampoo and conditioner because
honestly i just don't have the room for huge bottles of shampoo and conditioner when i'm
moving about so much and i will just quickly show you the kitchen slash living room it is
really dark in here even without the shutters closed honestly most of the time because we are
on the ground floor here i'm not sure if you can see but there's like a roof which goes out quite
far over the edge of the window if you know what i mean i don't know if i'm making sense
but yeah it isn't actually that sunny in here like ever apart from if there's direct sunlight into
the window like there is now and yeah because this apartment doesn't get that much sunlight
i don't really see any point in opening these shutters because for security reasons you have
to close them every time you leave the apartment so i don't really see any point in opening them
if i don't spend that much time actually in this room so yeah because this apartment doesn't get
that much light it can get quite cool compared to if the apartment was higher up for instance
i'm not complaining it's just a fact you know and i actually quite like it because it means
there's more opportunities to wear jumpers definitely looks like someone lives here and
i just really love how homely it is how decorated it is i think that in a video which i'm going to
release before this i talked about how much i just appreciate so much that everything in italy is
such a work of art how italians take so much care over things like aesthetics so yeah i just really
love how nicely decorated this apartment is i cook everything on there and there's like
a whistling kettle so i'm not sure if there is an electric kettle here i haven't really checked but
i just boil my water there and it's very important that you only switch on the gas if you're actually
using the gas so you can't just like go to work and leave it on in italy that's what i've heard
that took a lot of getting used to for me because in the uk it is safe to leave the gas on and only
switch on the gas for individual what do you call it like dials when you need to use them but you
have to turn off the gas both on the dial and at the main point where the gas is delivered to the
house i haven't blown up the house yet so that's always good what i've noticed in italy a lot which
i haven't actually seen anywhere else but i think is a really good idea is the fact that they have
cupboards which are used as drying racks so let me explain every shelf is like a drying rack but
it's bottomless and it's directly above the sink or the sort of drying area of the sink
i just think that that's such a good idea so yeah i think that's everything really i hope that you
enjoyed it if you did then please give me a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe if you haven't
done already and you've made it this far i'm going to be posting a lot more videos about my
life in italy and then in germany just my general life abroad so if you're into that then please
stick around thanks so much for watching and i'll see you in another video very soon bye [music]