Bethany

Hey!

I officially moved in 4 weeks ago..and my roommate and I are still decorating our room. Crazy, right? In the past week we have added a makeup station, began covering the wall behind our futon in pictures and quotes, and got our TV set up!

Achieving the cutest room on campus isn’t easy, let me tell you. On Sunday night alone we had to corral two boys into (attempting) to help us. At this point we were trying to cut a hole in our carpet so we could wire the tv underneath of it. This is the same carpet that was underneath the leg of Danielle’s very heavy bed. It began with the two of us trying to use scissors..

Attempt #1

..Which did not work out. We then went and got our friend Estevan, who thought using a butter knife would somehow be more productive. Once again, it did not work out.

Attempt #2

We gave up on him and went back to the scissors…And got it to work!
Until we realized the carpet was under the leg of her bed and we needed to lift it up. That’s where boy #2 came into play. He held the bed up while we pulled the carpet out from underneath of it. (CARPET IS HEAVY AND YOU WILL GET WAR MARKS). Butttttt…Our tv area is set up!

Tv area 🙂

We then set up our makeup station by the window (utilize this space, space is precious!)

Makeup corner

We’ve also began decorating our desks and covering our walls in quotes and pictures

Wall #1

I’ve really got to get back to studying for my exam on Monday.. Bye!

I recently started working in the Hillcrest Dining Room (by recently I mean I got off work about 2 hours ago) clearing the dishes people send back when they’re done eating. I don’t even know who some of these people are but I already hate them – how hard is it to send your stuff back the right way!? Which led me to this: a list of tips for those of you who are considerate and kindhearted and just want the workers to love you.

• If you have syrup (or anything else sticky, such as peanut butter) on your plate, do NOT stack your other dishes on it! I have to pull it apart and I end up getting covered in your syrup. On the same note, don’t put you empty cup in a bowl full of syrup (this actually happened).
• Throw your silverware in the silverware slots! I know that I’ve forgotten a time or two but a huge group put all of their stuff in at once and not one of them took care of their silverware. It’s right there and it makes our job go a lot more smoothly.
• Don’t stack your cups if they have drinks or ice left in them. I have to unstack them when they come back either way, but it makes it a bit more difficult to takecare of everything efficiently if I have to keep stopping to unstack cups.
• Why are you throwing away unopened bananas or unpeeled apples!? We can’t use them again so you’re literally throwing away perfectly good food. If you realize you’re too full to eat it after all, can’t you stick it in your bag and eat it as a snack between classes?
• If it didn’t come from the kitchen, don’t send it back to the kitchen. Somebody put their ice packs on the conveyor belt today which I then had to open, dump the ice out, and throw the bags in recycling and others sent back their Powerade bottles. There are recycling bins everywhere, use one!
• I love it when you stack your plates and bowls together.. Just not when they all have food left on them. If you’re going to do that make sure the food is all on one plate (the top one!).
• Put your dishes as close to the mouth of the conveyor belt as possible! The belt only moves when there are dishes on it and if I see it start moving I have to wait for the dishes to reach me.. The wait can get pretty long when people put their dishes on the opposite end.

First day of work!

Hopefully you’ll follow this advice and win my heart!
Bye!