The Weybridge Saga 05/29/2011
Hello everyone! This is Ari (of the purple carrot photo haha)
first blog post ever, here goes! please feel free to give feedback in the comments, and tell me what you want to hear about!
where to start . . . logically, I would begin with our first morning in the garden, but there is a story that comes first!
and, I should introduce Allie Weinstein, who is the fourth intern not featured in the previous post. I don't have a photo, so you'll have to take my word that she's as cute as a button (especially with her floppy straw hat). She's from a house built into the side of a hill in Maryland, which was featured in the news when a deer quite literally broke in by running through a window . . . Allie has a great eye for four-leaf clovers, and loves children.
I'll let her tell you more, on to the story!
we were scheduled to begin gardening the morning of Monday the 23. but we got an email saying we could move into Weybridge (the sustainable food house, where we are living this summer) on Tuesday . . . not wanting to be homeless, we sent a flurry of emails and tried to negotiate with housing and student employment, to no avail. Sara still had her room in Forest (a dorm) and Allie stayed with her and Carly and I stayed with friends (the friend I stayed with was supposed to move out on the 23 and move into his summer housing on the 24, but we decided to hold our ground)
so, Monday morning I ran down to the garden and Carly told me that Sara and Ali had been kicked out because Forest was going under renovation!
so Jay took their possessions to his house, and we regrouped briefly in the garden, and decided to meet the Authority in person . . . and the Authority was . . . difficult. No interest in cooperating or resolving the problem, just told us we had messed up, and that we had to wait to move into Weybridge without giving any reasons.
So we decided to investigate, and met the Weybridge custodians, who were quite kind and left the building unlocked for us so we could move in (yay for subverting the system!)
We got lunch at the coop on the college account (Jay's revenge for their mismanagement of the situation :) and then we helped each other move into Weybridge before gardening for the rest of the afternoon.
That night we had a lovely dinner with spinach and asparagus from the garden, and set about cleaning the kitchen. Love you Weybridgers, but seriously??? there is no method to the madness, and spring cleaning is a few years overdue . . . so we were sorting among spices and ingredients and miscellaneous mystery meals when Public Safety paid us a visit . . .
"Are you supposed to be here?"
"Uhm well, kind of . . . we're supposed to be here tomorrow . . . but . . ."
"I don't have a problem with it, but I have to check."
. . . basically it was a case of rules trumping reality, and for no real reason (except that the Authority was . . . difficult) we were kicked out, twelve hours before we could officially pick up keys, when we would be working . . .
but the next day we got keys and got lunch in Weybridge!
and we have been cleaning all week, with plenty still to do! it's kind of an adventure, we've found some treasure!
first blog post ever, here goes! please feel free to give feedback in the comments, and tell me what you want to hear about!
where to start . . . logically, I would begin with our first morning in the garden, but there is a story that comes first!
and, I should introduce Allie Weinstein, who is the fourth intern not featured in the previous post. I don't have a photo, so you'll have to take my word that she's as cute as a button (especially with her floppy straw hat). She's from a house built into the side of a hill in Maryland, which was featured in the news when a deer quite literally broke in by running through a window . . . Allie has a great eye for four-leaf clovers, and loves children.
I'll let her tell you more, on to the story!
we were scheduled to begin gardening the morning of Monday the 23. but we got an email saying we could move into Weybridge (the sustainable food house, where we are living this summer) on Tuesday . . . not wanting to be homeless, we sent a flurry of emails and tried to negotiate with housing and student employment, to no avail. Sara still had her room in Forest (a dorm) and Allie stayed with her and Carly and I stayed with friends (the friend I stayed with was supposed to move out on the 23 and move into his summer housing on the 24, but we decided to hold our ground)
so, Monday morning I ran down to the garden and Carly told me that Sara and Ali had been kicked out because Forest was going under renovation!
so Jay took their possessions to his house, and we regrouped briefly in the garden, and decided to meet the Authority in person . . . and the Authority was . . . difficult. No interest in cooperating or resolving the problem, just told us we had messed up, and that we had to wait to move into Weybridge without giving any reasons.
So we decided to investigate, and met the Weybridge custodians, who were quite kind and left the building unlocked for us so we could move in (yay for subverting the system!)
We got lunch at the coop on the college account (Jay's revenge for their mismanagement of the situation :) and then we helped each other move into Weybridge before gardening for the rest of the afternoon.
That night we had a lovely dinner with spinach and asparagus from the garden, and set about cleaning the kitchen. Love you Weybridgers, but seriously??? there is no method to the madness, and spring cleaning is a few years overdue . . . so we were sorting among spices and ingredients and miscellaneous mystery meals when Public Safety paid us a visit . . .
"Are you supposed to be here?"
"Uhm well, kind of . . . we're supposed to be here tomorrow . . . but . . ."
"I don't have a problem with it, but I have to check."
. . . basically it was a case of rules trumping reality, and for no real reason (except that the Authority was . . . difficult) we were kicked out, twelve hours before we could officially pick up keys, when we would be working . . .
but the next day we got keys and got lunch in Weybridge!
and we have been cleaning all week, with plenty still to do! it's kind of an adventure, we've found some treasure!
