Living in a Wardli

Highs:
- cooking
- living with people
- learning about people
- hanging out with new people
- warm beds
- sleeping
- clean clothes
- showers
- WARM showers
- comfort

Challenges:
- being patient
- not killing people
- managing anger and frustration
- cooking well
- being with people ALL the time
- having to clean EVERYDAY
- having to live with people you don't nessesarily like
- having to put up with other people's anoying habits
- putting up with other people's (lack of) hygene
- not being able to get away from annoying people

Living together is hard but i think my main strengths are that i clean alot and most often i pick up after myself AND other people. Also i'm fairly organised: i think about what i need to do and do it. I must admit that i do get frustrated with other people in my wardli and often find myself yelling at them and being bossy but i think that if i didn't yell and tell some people what to do they would do nothing and just be idle.

This would deffinately be one of the main problems in my wardli: some people have no initiative. I don't really know how to solce this problem but i think it would certainly help to talk to this person/these people about what the problem is and how we can fix it. Another problem is that some people -myself included- are very negative and i really think that this is only due to stress and/or frustration. So what we need to do to fix this problem would just be to calm down and have a little more patience or even just taking a little time out. The most annoying problem in my wardli is people not cleaning up after themselves ie the cup or bowl left in the sink which noone will own up to and so me or Jack or Jacko etc will have to do it. This would be resolved really easily by people cleaning up after themselves.

So far this experience has really impacted on my thoughts about my home and how it is cleaned and maintained. At home i don't do alot but i never knew how much work it was to actually keep a house clean. When i get home i'm going to make more of an effort in cleaning and keeping my mess to myself.