Oh the off-campus housing in Tuscaloosa

In reading Sarah’s blog, I realized I hadn’t talked about my living quarters for next year and the struggle there was to arrive at it. Firstly, Sarah I hope you don’t think I’m stealing you idea but it was a good one. Ok, so me and a couple of friends decided to live together before Christmas. We were on the ball and ready to go. We started looking for places and found this perfect little townhouse complex off Hargrove Rd. We began filling out the paper work and getting parents to travel up to sign different forms. For starters, this takes forever and eight days and shouldn’t be as complicated as it ended up being. However, after about a month we all managed to get everything signed and in place.

While, we were slightly disorganized in gathering parents, the majority of this run around was caused by the lovely management at the place which covers a couple different housing places including capstone quarters and of course ours, which is the village at Brooke Meadows. The main problem was that they kept switching which person we were dealing with and therefore switching what could or could not be faxed, what we had signed and basically resulting in an all out mess.

Nevertheless, as I said, in the end everything was signed, well at least the important stuff, they recently informed us that there were in fact a couple more sheets but that we could sign them on moving day. I honestly believe however, that the run around and partial threatening of not having a place to live next year by a few of the employees was only because we were college students and had we been any other adults they would have treated us with a little more respect and been a little more organized. It makes me wonder if this was a result of dealing mostly with college students and becoming frustrated or just assuming that threatening was the only way to get anything done.

Surprised Once Again

So there are going to be a few posts in a row here that span a time frame of about a week before spring break to now. Okay, so two weeks ago I ventured back home to Montgomery because my brother came home for a combination birthday and Christmas celebration. While he was there, my mom and I searched our brains to go somewhere for lunch that was light and not a chain restaurant like Panera Bread. Finally, we settled on a little café located in historical Old Cloverdale. It’s name Café Louisa (take a tour) and it offers sandwiches, scones, gelato and coffee. When you first enter it has a quaint feel with wooden benches and tables. It also has an artsy feel about it since it also serves as an art gallery. I hadn’t been there in a while and was amazed at how good not only to food but coffee was. For those of you who might venture that way you should defiantly make it a pit stop. The coffee even surpassed my brother’s expectations who currently lives in Seattle.

Tiny town offers more in entertainment

Sometimes it amazes me how much there really is to do here in Tuscaloosa. During the fall, there is a never ending amount of excitement with football and thousands of crazy fans tailgating;However, the campus still offers many exciting options during the spring. From university sports such as basketball, gymnastics, baseball and swimming going on, to the fine arts plays and concerts, there is always something happening. In comparison to my hometown, Tuscaloosa is a great deal smaller. However there is much more offered in Tuscaloosa in comparison. Honestly about the most exciting thing that goes on on a regular basis is the movie theater or the outside shopping mall. Sometimes I hear people describing there tiny hometown and mention the same things as there only options. This makes me wonder whether teenagers just have a tendency to be attracted to these things or if somehow even though Montgomery is much larger, they just lack to incentive to create events for people to attend. Don't get me wrong, my hometown does offer Jubilee once a year which is like a musical festival and there is usually some form of a punk or heavy metal band playing somewhere in town, however variety is certainly not offered.