Hello all,
So I have officially learned how to do this thing. Fabulous. Laura asked me if I would give an update on the meeting and then I forgot my notes....so I will do my best from memory and then perhaps add more later.
First of all, yesterday I SIGNED THE LEASE! It's officially ours! Now we just have to pay the first month's rent before May 1st. We will have to figure out how to do that. They said we could get in about 4 days early which would be really nice. So...yay for us!
At the meeting we brainstormed topics/decisions that we need to make before next year. From what I remember the main issues were...
1. Room mate situation
2. Simple Living decisions
- how we buy, what we buy, with what. tv, dishwasher, etc.
3. House meeting time committments
Those are the main issues that I remember.
1. We drew names for first semester and then decided for second semester we would rearrange and get a chance to live with someone else. (but Julie calls Katia for when she gets back from El Salvadora).
- Hannah and Laura
- Julie and Cassie
- Lydia
2. No decisions made just some possibilities brought up. Might have a tv for movies, but not focal point of rooms. Possibility of buying oragnic. Maybe have a shared bank account with a debit card that we share. use dishwasher?
3. Decided to brainstorm creative stuff to do and then decide what the commitments are later.
Then we all watched Grey's Anatomy and are brownies.
Ok, so that is a very rough outline of what we talked about. We would love to hear your thoughts. And those here, what am i missing?
Love to you all!
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This all sounds great, and I'm glad you are getting excited about next year, because I am too. I am a little worried to be making big decisions about simple living and stuff when some of us are not there. I know we have not even discussed simple living here, at the casa yet, and we're into the third week. I just don't want us to get ahead of ourselves. I hope everything is going well.
-PR
patrick,
i agree with you on that but i think some of the big things might need to be discussed to see if we even want them in the house (like a microwave, which was brought up at the meeting too)
also, i just talked to Lauren DeVeau, who with 3 of her friends are serious about sublenting for the summer. just letting everyone else know. how do we want to do that?
-Laura
Yeah. and I have talked to two or three people who would be seriously intersted in living their as well. we should figure out how to do this soon and try to figure out how much they are paying etc.
lwk
Folks,
You will all be receiving an email from me shortly spreading the word to find people to sublet. If you know people who are interested, please have them contact Cassie or Julie like we agreed at the final meeting before the end of last semester. Since those two and Patrick are living there this summer, it would be nice for them to figure out whom they would like to spend there summer with at the house, As for rent, I thought they would pay the expected rent. Spread the word though about sub-letting, it is not up to me who lives there, I just don't want to have to pay rent while I am in Thailand.
I don't have a problem with a microwave and as Patrick can verify, I have an amazing 13 inch tv that I could bring. The sound on it is perfect.
So I take it I am rooming with Patrick again huh? I am beginning to have second thoughts about this house next year. Oh just playing Patrick you know I love you and I look like a pedophile right now. I second Patrick's thoughts that some of this stuff we can't really discuss until next August, when all are present. Alright bye.
Edward R.
I´m so glad we´re getting people interested in subletting. That was my only worry. I´ve made a friend here too that might be interested in subletting. It´s not for sure, but we´ll see.
For the record I just want to say that I do enjoy popcorn a great deal. and eddie´s tv is perfectly shitty. my two cents.
besos,
PR
hey,
I finally figured out how to do this! I think it would be best to have the simple living discussion with everyone...but unfortunately we're never all going to be together...sad, I know. So while some of the stuff can be put off till the fall...there probably are things we want to talk about now too. What if we decide what those things are and put them on the blog plenty of time before the meeting so everyone can have the opportunity to discuss it? just an idea
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