I'm back after a long absence, the time to buy a computer. 5 days of madness in NY, starting for Michigan for the real thing. It's been over a week and a half I am and my blog deserved to be watered with fresh news. I cut the last post in two because it was too long and a little illegibile.
Upon my arrival in Ann Arbor, I realized how my choice to live in co-op was more than wise. What is a co-op? It is a local invention inspired utopian socialist community, hence the name of my house, Robert Owen. The idea: to divide the tasks in a house, a small community, share meals and regularly organize large parties in the house. My house is the second co-op in the world, the first is at the end of the street. They are now everywhere in American universities and also in Germany, especially Berlin. A new word: GUFF this means Generally Unspecified Free Food. Any food which we did not write "no guff" can make a meal of coopers.
Owen is a good compromise with the other houses I saw: not too dirty, people are mostly very sociable and open, and a large porch on which we spend a lot of evenings to discuss. Another advantage of the co-op is to meet many different people that really enriches the discussion.
Which brings me to talk to you, dear reader, My roommate who is a hippy as it does more. First, it is super nice and helped me to settle down, it's a great guy and super grows. Always cheerful, it seems that life and material things pass over him. He loves to make it back, it has happened to make sandals by cutting a tire so the tire and adding bits of plastic. He finds it unfair that I speak English and that he did not speak to me in a foreign language so that it offers me speak German only to put us on a level that Estale j 'I politely declined. Moreover, the first time I met him in presenting myself as French it made me immediately expressed his rejection of the concept of nation state which was perhaps not the time for this kind of discussion just arrived in Ann Arbor. So I share my room with the other side of America, one that considers these excesses and think the world can turn otherwise, too?
Tonight is the meeting the house. We take all our decisions by voting in common than either food, evenings or purchase of the house.
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