Common Room Sleepover Extravaganza

There’s only one week left in CE. I can’t believe how quickly the time flew by! It feels like just yesterday I was dragging my huge suitcases into the elevators, nervously walking into my suit and awkwardly saying hi to my new roommates. Now I feel as if we’ve known each other for so much more than four weeks. I would not say forever, but at least a few months. We’ve come to know each other’s idiosyncrasies, accepting and even playfully joking about our quirks.

Our suite is already regarding next Saturday with dread, not wanting to sever our precious bonds of friendships. And so, the obvious way to savor our last week together is with an intense, weeklong dorm sleepover. In order to do this we decided to move our mattresses into the common room. We started with my mattress on the top bunk. It was quite an adventure getting that down, including various awkward grunting noises and the use of our lower and upper body strength.




At one point Lara was lying on her back pushing the mattress up with her legs while Genelle, Audrey, and I (standing firmly on the ground) pulled and pushed to get the mattress down. They are, after all, rather heavy. We slightly miscalculated the amount of strength required for this endeavor.








Once it was it the common room it was much easier to get the rest of the mattresses in, as they were bottom mattresses and the one other top mattress, Jessica’s, was easier because we knew what to do. Organization of the mattresses was quite difficult, and they are arranged in an eclectic manner across the floor. Getting across the room without stepping on someone’s bed is virtually impossible. All in all, we are extremely satisfied with our choice, and are looking foreward to our week of late-night chats, midnight confessions, and crazy sleep patterns.



Alessandra