Oh my goodness… They’re making some noise…! The reason for it? The „Director of Student Affairs“ is paying us a visit… to check our rooms for whatever. It’s not a „shake down“ (sorry for my Miracle Meadows vocabulary), just a room check. My opinion: it’s necessary! Some kids just don’t know how to keep their rooms clean. I keep telling my three little sweet roommates to put their stuff away, to dry wet clothes OUTSIDE, NOT to place their socks on the desk, NOT to spread their rice all over their beds when they have a „chicken with rice“-feast (the food in the cafeteria is vegetarian and they are actually not supposed to bring chicken inside the dorm). Yeah… so I’m happy that brother Zabaleta is actually taking these 2 hours or something to help to improve the situation. The kids like him so I hope it might really change something. At least for some time. Some are pretty horrified though… especially the high school girls who are not supposed to have cell phones during the week or whatever… One of my roommates has her cell phone charging in the middle of the desk… Well, I told her last night to give it to the dean. She wouldn’t listen and Mr. Zabaleta spares me some nerves since I was about to talk to her tonight about the cell phone story. Well, I’m glad though that I took my laptop to worship today since we are kind of trapped here. My room is almost the last one in the whole dorm of about 130 ladies. That’s the bad part about this “checking rooms”-story, but since I thought I would have worship tonight (Monday is “my day”) I had taken my laptop, but they had invited somebody else. Fine with me. I’m prepared for next Monday :) and I at least have somthing to do right now.
What to do with the rest of a blog I started like this? I don’t know. I just know that I don’t have to fear anything concerning room check. Our room is a chaos, but MY stuff and MY bed are alright. Well… I’m curious though, what he will say about my “kitchen”…
Since I don’t feel like eating white rice twice a day (NO JOKE!), I started to buy my own food supplies when the Germans left. I have everything you need in case you don’t feel like eating in the cafeteria : peanut butter, jam, bread, nuts, raisins, ketchup, mayonnaise, ramen noodles, granola, tea, milk powder, garlic powder, juice, whole wheat crackers, oatmeal cookies, carrots, apples, something to boil water with, knife, spoon, fork, cups, pitcher… well, just everything you need to survive! I love my new freedom. I eat less than 50% in the cafeteria and 3-4 times rice a week for 6 months is ok... Last week I had my first breakfast in my room. After worship, I managed to sneak back into the dorm and had the most wonderful and quiet breakfast since I got here. Somehow it was like a historic moment and I had to take a picture of it. Since then, I started to skip the “cafeteria breakfast” more regularly…
I’m surprised though, how much stuff I get into my locker-sized closet! It’s really amazing. Shoes, clothes, “kitchen”, dirty clothes, toilet articles… it’s just a question of organization and always putting stuff back to where it belongs. On the other hand, I really like only having what you really need. Sometimes I wish I had taken this or that item with me from Germany, but somehow I survive without it and I love this experience!
Somehow this blog is a strange one. But I can’t really focus on anything useful since I have people asking me every two minutes what I’m doing and right now I have three of them staring on my screen trying to get what I’m writing about and almost driving me crazy (with the additional sound of girls trying to play volleyball in the hallway and others screaming because of heaven knows what). At least they don’t understand a word. Sometimes I like this school system here… =) although it’s pretty sad when I don’t know how to help the kids with their English homework because the assignment is already in bad English and I don’t want to correct the teacher…
Whatever. I guess I’ll stop here for now and write some more useful blogs when I have time and nerves to actually THINK. You got a kind of first hand impression though what life in this crazy dorm looks like. *lol*
Hope you have a great day with less noise…
Good night… that means good morning for some of you.
maria
Oh my goodness… They’re making some noise…! The reason for it? The „Director of Student Affairs“ is paying us a visit… to check our rooms for whatever. It’s not a „shake down“ (sorry for my Miracle Meadows vocabulary), just a room check. My opinion: it’s necessary! Some kids just don’t know how to keep their rooms clean. I keep telling my three little sweet roommates to put their stuff away, to dry wet clothes OUTSIDE, NOT to place their socks on the desk, NOT to spread their rice all over their beds when they have a „chicken with rice“-feast (the food in the cafeteria is vegetarian and they are actually not supposed to bring chicken inside the dorm). Yeah… so I’m happy that brother Zabaleta is actually taking these 2 hours or something to help to improve the situation. The kids like him so I hope it might really change something. At least for some time. Some are pretty horrified though… especially the high school girls who are not supposed to have cell phones during the week or whatever… One of my roommates has her cell phone charging in the middle of the desk… Well, I told her last night to give it to the dean. She wouldn’t listen and Mr. Zabaleta spares me some nerves since I was about to talk to her tonight about the cell phone story.
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Wow. I really don't envy you living in that dorm. Well, if you ever intend to write a book about crazy dorm stories, you can refer to actual first hand experience. I guess I would have gone shouting a long time ago. And I am not excessively orderly :)
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