My friend James and I had a good stay at Jerry’s place. The apartment has 2 bedrooms, which are not large but they are sufficient in size. Something we missed in the bedrooms were frames for the mattresses. The mattresses were on the floor. The apartment was fully equipped with all utilities we needed, except for a tv, but we don’t watch tv a lot so that was no problem. What would have been nice was to have 2 desks so we both persons would have had a place to study. There was only 1 desk so the other person had to study on the salon table in the couch, or on the cupboard.
Those little discomforts were balanced with the great hospitality and communication of Jerry. He also provided coffee filters, foods, soap, and cleaning products for us to use. We felt very much at home inside his apartment.
One thing that was hard to deal with was the neighborhood. The Tenderloin is a center of homeless and drug addicts. I thought I knew what that entailed, as there are also homeless where I come from in Belgium, but this was a whole new scale. The mental problems and the incomprehensible situations these people live in make this a humanitarian crisis. I was shocked and literally sick the first week I was there. I am lucky to be a tall male, because I would never want a young girl walking around in this neighborhood. The amounts of times James and I got harassed were limited, but there was still a sense that you always needed your guard up.
Anyway, thank you a lot for having us at your place. As I said, all in all we really enjoyed our stay in your apartment.