turning 21 on the program

[SkyinNeverland]

Anyone else turn 21 during their program? I turn 21 almost exactly a month in! I'm wondering about the roommate situation and celebrating my 21st. I know I will be in a Wellness apartment and can't drink in there, plus I'm afraid I won't have many friends a month in and won't be able to celebrate! Haha so if anyone has experience with this I'd love to hear it
or from anyone else who will be turning 21 during their program with meeee!!

 

[SierraRose]

The best advice I could give on the program(I was in Fall 2013) is to find your roommates beforehand. With me I had been talking to my roommates on Facebook all summer so by the time we got down there and met in person we were already best of friends

They have Facebook groups where people in your program should be looking for roommates so I would go on there and see if there's any that are still looking. It also makes it so you don't end up with someone you hate.

With the 21 thing, I turned 21 a month before my program started but I was in a wellness apartment because of the 6 only 3 of us were over 21. This didn't bother me because I'm a social drinker so I usually only drink when I'm out and we weren't really party people anyway(our fun nights were spent watching Jem on Netflix lol). One of us did turn 21 while on the program though so we took her out and stuff

So if you can, try to find an over 21 roommate who doesn't mind going wellness so then you can have someone to go out with on your birthday, or even someone who also turns 21 on program and you can celebrate together. I'm not sure if this is true but I have heard that if you turn 21 on program you can request to get transferred to a non-wellness but if you've already gotten close to your roommates and you don't care about drinking in the apartment then you probably won't want to.

Anyway, hope you enjoy your program and good luck!

 

[wilkeliza]

Anyone else turn 21 during their program? I turn 21 almost exactly a month in! I'm wondering about the roommate situation and celebrating my 21st. I know I will be in a Wellness apartment and can't drink in there, plus I'm afraid I won't have many friends a month in and won't be able to celebrate! Haha so if anyone has experience with this I'd love to hear it
or from anyone else who will be turning 21 during their program with meeee!!

If you turn 21 on your program you are allowed to request a move to a non-wellness move.

I am sure you have had a drink before. So what type of drinker are you? Are you going to want to have wine, beer, or anything easy (malt liquor) around the house just to have after a stressful day? If the answer is yes then get your butt out of wellness as soon as possible.

Another thing to consider if you are in a wellness apartment and are over 21 if during inspection they find alcohol they can and will term you and send you home. The thought behind it is it had to have been one of the 21 and over roommates who bought it so they will be the ones to be punished.

The final thing is just know while you are on your program if you throw a party or anything after you turn 21 (switch wellness or non-wellness doesn't matter) if it is in your apartment and an underage person is found with alcohol everyone who is over 21 goes home.

Now to celebrating the best way to celebrate is take the day off and go drink around the world. Pace yourself and for every glass of alcohol or shot drink a glass of water. If you are going during non Food and Wine time about 200 is good for alcohol and food (11 countries- 10 bucks a drink then another 100 for food and non-alcoholic drinks) during Food and Wine I would do at least 300 (21 countries so 10 a drink is 210 the 90 for food). Those are high estimates but it will allow you the most fun with out worrying about budget. Also bring someone under 21 along that you trust to make sure you make it home.
Just remember if you are overly intoxicated they may not allow you on the CP buses and I even remember on my program they wouldn't let dangerously drunk people back into housing.

Final advice. Stay away from the party buses. If you want to go hang out take a cab to Ale House or Buffalo Wild Wings. I knew a girl who got rapped on one of the party bus trips and another who got left behind because she was denied boarding on the bus back because she was too drunk.