Wednesday, September 23, 2009

A quick tour

Down here on deck three, we fall asleep to the hum of the generators and slamming of the gigantic metal door across the hall. It's a nice place to live, though. Step right this way, we're on the left.



Room 3433 is a little tight on space, like the rest of the ship, but the six of us get along fine. Laughter goes a long way in community :)





And there are no monsters under the bed here (no sirree, no room for monsters)! In our berth, either your bunkmate sleeps below you or you sleep on the bottom bed. Cramming stuff under the bottom bunk is a fine art here on the AFM- bags, shoes, books, things you don't necessarily need on a daily basis. The thing is, there's less than a foot between the floor and bed, and the beds fold into the wall... so you'd better make sure everything is tamped down well. Otherwise when the zipper breaks on a bag and it expands another two inches, you might just find yourself squished between the wall and mattress. These are very real concerns, I tell you!

However, while there are no monsters under the beds, cabin 3433 has a bathroom monster. You think I'm kidding but I'm not. Usually he waits to reminds us that he's there until the middle of the night. Then he lets out an ugly, hollow roar. It's so jarring that we have to keep the bathroom door closed at night so that he doesn't wake up the girls right next to it. Other times one of us may be in there, not running water or anything, when he opens up in a gigantic yawn. I half expect to be sucked down one of the drains someday. Startling to say the least! Less often he possesses the toilet and decides to drain and continue suction for no apparent reason. Given the freakiness of the toilets here in general, that doesn't bother me so much.





I need to name our monster. Ideas?

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