Nesting

Since we arrived at the dorms, we've been living with pretty bare bones supplies. There was a box of kitchen utensils in the kitchen, and our leader, Jeff was nice enough to stock our fridge with some food to last us a few days. However, 18 hungry college students quickly ate through our supply of bread and juice, and it became clear that a trip to the grocery store was badly needed. The bathroom situation was similar. There was no soap in the, no extra towels, and about one garbage can.. for the entire dorm. Going to the bathroom felt like going to an outhouse. Also, there are two shower stalls in our bathroom, (shower room, really. The toilet is in a separate room) but there were now shower curtains, and the faucets were hand-held. Needless to say, water got everywhere. Even still, the floor has never been properly dry. We all were getting tired of living in filth and surviving on glasses of tej (milk) for breakfast.

So today, after we got back from more walking around the city, we got organized. We split the group up into three smaller teams each responsible for shopping and cooking for their team members. These teams would also be put on a rotation for cleaning different areas of the dorm. But first, we had a lot of work to do to clean up the mess we'd made in the past two days. Also, we found a stash of supplies left by semester groups previous. So we needed to sort through the new supplies to find any and all things useful. I was on the team that cleaned and sorted kitchen supplies. It was fun to see everyone working together to put together our new home, and after a while the dishes I labored over cleaning seemed to belong to me. We joked that we were "nesting," and dreamed up different things we could do as a group. After a few people got done with their tasks, they made spaghetti for us all. We put some tunes on and had a delicious meal. Afterwards, people stayed to help clean up. We uploaded more pictures from our day, laughed and tagged each other's pictures. I have to be up early to go grocery shopping with my team. But for now, life is good in Buda.

szia!
Jen