i'm almost a homeless person!

so the dorm we've been living in, casa de colores, with bathrooms like something out of martha stewarts worst nightmares, was built a few years ago by a bunch of orthodox jewish teen volunteers at proyecto azteca. my theory is that it was like a training camp for them before heading off to israel to build jewish settlements (this theory has been confirmed by jaime). before casa de colores was built, most volunteers apparently would live with host families, to get the real south texan experience, but i guess the jewish kids were real masochists and wanted to build a horrible little building that doesn't conform to any fire or safety hazard codes in anywhere in the country, or anywhere in any country, barring possibly some places in africa or siberia or what have you. places which, i think in general, don't have fire codes, is what i'm trying to get across. because this place doesn't. have them, i mean.

so we're living in casa de colores, it's not THAT bad because there's only three of us (another intern, MJ, moved in on monday - she's from Rutgers Newark too which is a pretty crazy coincidence if you ask me!) and it has two giant bedrooms with 6 bunkbeds each, so it has enough room, at least, even though it hasn't got enough of many other things (hot water, for example). but we've been told ever since the beginning, that at some point over the summer the jewish kids would return because there is a group that volunteers every summer. today we got the details: on saturday, two adults are going to arrive, a guy and a lady. then on sunday, 9 girls are going to arrive (that makes 10 ladies incoming to CDC) and 7 dudes (that makes 8 incoming dudes). also two other women are going to arrive, but they are super orthodox and need seperate sleeping quarters entirely. I'm not sure why, or how they expect that to happen - genevieve mentioned that they were planning on sleeping in the STCRP office. which is absolutely ridiculous, we have no idea who these women are they can't be sleeping in a law office with client files and things, also we WORK here. also they don't want to pay for any of this.

so like i said, girls room & guys room have 6 bunk beds each. meaning 12 beds, meaning that since there's 10 women incoming and there's already three of us here, there aren't enough beds for girls. guys room will have 4 extra beds, but guys and girls apparently can't sleep together in the same room. so genevieve, MJ and i are basically in a lot of trouble.

laura said it's possible that we could move in with her, but she isn't sure yet because she's trying to get a new place to live. Jayne said her landlord/roommate has two spare rooms, which we might be able to move into. Ann at proyecto azteca has a spare room, but Sr. Moira uses it as an office so we're not sure if that will pan out. so if worse comes to worst, genevieve, MJ and I may actually end up having to sleep at STCRP! i know i just gave reasons for the two other ladies not to sleep here, but different rules apply to us, i think, for many reasons e.g. we are not strangers, we work here, we are allowed to look at client files anyway, we spend everyday here as it is, etc. STCRP has a bathroom with a shower, and it has an oven and a microwave and a refrigerator - actually the bathroom is better than the CDC bathroom so it might not be all that bad - but seriously, if i end up sleeping and working in the same place, i will literally never go outside, and i will return to new jersey white as a ghost as if i had been living in a cave. there's more i want to write about too but i'm on my lunch break trying to eat and i can't type and eat at the same time.

real quick: genevieve and i went to this place 'la mexicana dos' which was really good, and i got these nachos called 'panchos' that were DELICIOUS, but i couldn't eat them all because it was too much and they were absolutely covered with jalapenos. so i brought them home but seriously, two day old microwaved nachos covered in refried beans and guacamole aren't as good as you might think. i was once of the opinion that anything microwaved will taste good, provided it's greasy enough, but i have been proven wrong. so wrong.

oh also, going to mexico tonight!! and we went to a drive-in movie theatre yesterday and it was FANTASTIC!!