My flat in the Plainpalais-Jonction area

I live in a five rooms' flat near "la Plaine de Plainpalais". The building where I live is old, we don't have any elevator. As we live on the third floor, we make a lot of exercise in the stairs!

It's a nice and very luminous place with high ceilings - three bedrooms, one for my parents, one for my two little sisters and one for me, a kitchen, a big living-room, two toilets and two bathrooms (because there were two apartments before).

I see two inconveniences: as it's old, it isn't well isolated, so it's difficult to study when my neighbours are listening to music and we sometimes can smell their cigarettes! The other thing is that it's difficult to warm as we just have two gas stoves for the whole apartment.

The area where I live is called Plainpalais-Jonction. It's very convenient for me to live here because it's near the college and my dance school. I like to live in the center, you can walk and take buses and trams very easily.

The bad thing is that there is a lot of traffic and it can be really noisy; not only because of the cars but also because people go out a lot at weekends at night. There is a little square near the house, but not a lot of "nature" (just like three trees) in this area.

There are many art galleries and also the MAMCO, museum of modern art; it stands just in front of my building. This district has had a nice development since they built the new university of Mail; new little pubs and shops has opened.