Roommates

So I have touched base in an earlier post about my awesome roommate, Ashley, but I wanted to talk a little bit more about college roommates.

The way my dorm is set up is that instead of having community bathrooms you have what are called suites. You walk into our common area and there are about eight doors around the room. If you step into one of those doors you will be lead to a bath room which has four other doors to go into. One door will lead to the shower, another to the toilet and the last to each lead to a separate dorm. So four people share one bathroom, which trust me, it’s actually pretty awesome. I was a little iffy about it at first but after experiencing it and hearing a bunch of others complain about community bathrooms I feel like as a freshman, I have it pretty good.

In my dorm there is me and Ashley and then next door is Britney and Xiaowei, she is an international student from China. Between the four of us it has been an interesting experience. I and Ashley get along great, I like think that we are pretty good friends and both of us are so laid back and chill that it is really easy for us to get along. Then there is Britney and Xiaowei who don’t exactly see eye-to-eye. The two of them don’t communicate and unfortunately Britney has to leave our suite because she can’t seem to stand Xiaowei. Now me and Ashley are being drove a little nuts by Xiaowei. She doesn’t seem to have any sort of basic social hygiene. I’m not saying she doesn’t shower or anything, it’s just she doesn’t clean up after herself, it mostly pertains to the bathroom, I never really go into her room so I don’t know about that, but that doesn’t really concern me. The biggest problem is that we don’t know how to talk to her about the problem. Neither Ashley nor I feel like even if we did talk to her, it would do anything. We don’t think she would quite understand what we are saying; there is just a big language/communication barrier between us that sucks, hardcore.

It’s been a semi-unsanitary semester but it’s almost over, and we have a plan that might get rid of her, maybe…Ashley and I are just hoping that Xiaowei doesn’t have her other Asian friend move into Britney’s empty space…here’s hoping. Our best bet is that we are going to talk to our RA and hope that helps out a little bit. But we’ll see.

Switching away from Xiaowei, I want to talk about my roommate, Ashley. So basically I and Ashley are basically polar opposites except for the fact that we are super laidback. She is very much a girly girl, athletic, she loves pink and is fairly academic and randomly all over the place all the time along with being pretty into God. Me on the other hand, well I am an atheist girl who has way too much testosterone in her system for her own good who hates pink and would rather sit back and chill with my laptop then go out and party on a Saturday night. Granted we do have some things in common, like I said we are both really laid back and we love hockey (for different reason, but we both love it). We both come from different kinds of family and different backgrounds, but we get along super well.

I guess I would just say to everyone, if you have roommate/suitemate issues, keep the communication line open, Ashley and I didn’t and now we are paying for it so…yea. This may not be my best blog, I don’t really feel it had a point but I’m gonna post it anyway. Have a great weekend and Merry Christmas=D

-Crysta