I am sure some of these have been posted somewhere in the past 158 pages but I went back about 10 and didn't see any mention of them...
What did all of you bring with you from your house? For those of you who flew and those of you who drove I am sure it was vastly different.
Clothes obviously, and toiletries. But how about other stuff like bedding or a computer, printer, TV, DVD player, stereo? Did you bring something to keep your valuables in or did you feel safe with your roommates that you could leave your stuff lying around?
Did you have your mail forwarded from your house to Disney or did your parents take care of it while you were gone? (Bills more specifically)
How did each of you work the food situation in your apartments? All roomies share it and everyone buys, or did individuals only eat what they bought?
Percentage wise... how many meals were eaten inside and how many outside at restaurants/fast-food/in the park?
Thanks guys.
I flew down for my program which was in the Spring of 07. I bought basic things like clothes, towels, etc. When I got to Florida my parents had rented a car so we were able to go to
Walmart and there I bought a TV, toster oven, and other little odds and ends. There is a locker that you can lock in your bedroom closet for stuff but I never used it.
I had my parents mail everything from home to me in Disney but back then I had no bills to pay lol. This time I think I'll just pay my bills like my car and stuff online.
One thing I want to say is this. I know that everyone wonders how the whole apartment roommate thing works out. Do you share stuff? Do you take care of yourself? It really depends on the situation. I'll use my own as en example.
I lived at Vista in a two bedroom apartment. I loved two of my roommates especially the girl I shared a room with. I tolerated the third girl. We were orginally going to share things like milk, bread, paper products, cleaning supplies and then buy what we liked to eat ourselves. I hate to cook so I bought mainly things like pasta, chicken nuggets, PB&J lol. My roommate loved to cook so she bought stuff like chicken, pot roast, whatever. Well the roommate that I couldnt stand turned out to be a huge problem. She ate everyone else food and lied about it, her boyfriend was always in our apartment at weird hours of the night like 5 am, She never cleaned up after herself, she was loud, and she would come in our room at like 3 am and ask what we were doing. We tried to deal with. We talked about, made an effort to understand where she was comign from. Nothing worked. It got to the point where I would either lock my door before bed or not come home at all. She would lock me out of the apartment sometimes.
So finally one day we all went to bed and she was the last one awake. Our fridge was full of food. She took bottles of soda and dumped it over everything. I mean over fruit salad that was in there, leftover dinners, you name it. Plus she had eaten pasta for dinner and she threw the leftovers in the fridge. So needless to say we finally had to go over her head and to the housing department. Come to find out her boyfriend also had a key to our apartment. She was forced to move and everything was fine, except she did steal her roommate's laptop and camera before she left.
now of coursethis exprience is a rarity. But what I am sayign is this. You are living on your own. There will be problems and things that you can't stand. You have to make compromises. I for one was almost never home during the day. However, when I came home at 3 4 in the morning i made sure not to wake my roommate. I never drank in te apartment, although other places. My boyfriend only came over when no one else was home. So its just about being considerate. And if it is horrible you can always move for 50 dollars so dont worry too much.
Lastly I ate out a ton. I almost nevr cooked especially less as the program progressed.
. If there were any qualms about it, I just would have moved things back - but it worked for me and worked for my roommate, so all was well!
