Hi guys! I'm going through the application process for the international college program and I just noticed that the bedrooms don't seem to be single occupancy! How did you guys find this especially if you ended up having a nightmare roomate who had poor hygiene (I think you know what I mean by that!) or had other annoying habits! That might bug me because I'm one of those fussy sleepers!
i lived in an 8 person apartment - it was madcap and I loved every second - wouldn't have changed it for the world!!! I loved my roomates (shared a room with girl from HK for 9 months and a girl from Mexico for 3) I had 7 instant friends all from other countries I think over the course of a year - 15 people lived in my apartment ;D
aww thats awesome! Yeah, first off I hope I get in lol, but also I hope I get into one of the bigger apartments. That sounds like a hoot and a hollar
Its for sure a weird experience at first to share a room with someone you dont know. I had a roomie who I totally loved and one I wasnt so fond of. Im sure they both had their opinions of me too. The thing you have to remember and my Japanese roomie was the best with this is its both of your rooms and both of you have to feel safe and happy there.
Despite going away for three years and living in a college residence, I had never had to share a room before. I was kind of concerned about it, but it ended up being not too big of a deal. My first roommate, who was only with me for six weeks, was great, but worked VERY early mornings and I usually worked night shifts. It was a bit of a pain to come home from work each night at 10 and have her already in bed. Not a big deal, just a bit of an inconvenience really, but I adjusted. My second roomie was awesome and we got along great. It helps if one of you is F&B and the other is merch because then your shifts are NEVER the same, so it makes the bathroom issue easy. You learn to adjust. I was in a two bedroom so it was pretty mellow. I don't think I could have handled anything bigger...especially an 8!!! Shan
u dnt always see evryone coz of different shifts and going out times and my romie sleeps at her fellahs alot so its fine i love my housemates. but cant lie pp do have probles, tel housin and they do their best to move u its not an issue, x xx
Before I left, the idea of sharing a bedroom was easily my biggest concern! I winded up in a two-bedroom apartment and things are pretty good - I get along with my actual roommate very well and am really going to miss her when she leaves! But it's true what the others said, you may rarely see your housemates. Everyone works different hours and usually has different days off. Some people have had issues with their housemates, but just let someone know and it is possible to change apartments and it's pretty common and easy to do. ~ Jen
Nah it's alright. I just moved from a 6 person in to a 4 person - we have it a little backwards I think because I used to see my 5 roomies ALL the time but my new 3 - not so much lol. Sharing a bedroom is neither here nor there. You only really sleep in there anyway! If you have any issues with mess etc all you have to do is say and I'm sure the majority of people are more than happy to help you out. Don't worry
For me, the roommates were probably the coolest part of the whole experience. However, it does take compromise. Be prepared to raise/lower your standard of living accordingly. Nobody's perfect so you gotta learn to let the small stuff go too. Yes, dirty dishes and stinky socks all over the place can get to you but in the scheme of things it's not that big of a deal. If something's REALLY bothering you then fix things with your roommate asap because it's hell when you come home to tension. And relax, a year isn't as long as you think it will be! My #1 piece of advice is to make an effort to really get to know you roommates. Besides, they're more likely to forgive your bad habits if they like you for other reasons! I don't know about you guys but I didn't go down there to make friends with people from my home country. That's nothing exciting. You spend all day at work with your own country and more of your friends are probably from your country too so your roommates are your best link to the rest of the world. Get to know their friends too and pretty soon you'll know people at every international party!
For the most part, I hated it. My first roommate was a weird, but she switched so that my friend from the UK and I could share rooms. Unfortunately, my friend took advantage of our friendship, and would have sex right next to me, loudly, with a different man all the time, several times a week! I'd wake up to them!! The only think seperating our beds was a bedside table...that's not a great distance!! We argued about this repeatedly, her claiming that I was just jealous. Um, no. I had my own fulfilled sexlife - I just did it more privately! Hellloooooo! Anyways needless to say I switched apartments and then got a VERY VERY weird roommate from Hong Kong. She had pictures of HERSELF all over the wall in very seductive poses. It was creepy. She would copy everything I did, and listen in on my phone calls. The final straw with her was one night I was in bed, sleeping (my parents were actually in town visting), when there was a knock on the bedroom door. There was security, and my roommate with a black eye!! She had SOMEHOW got a black eye and went to security blaming me!! Thank GOD my parents were in town, because they vouched for my whereabouts, at the time I supposedly beat her! Ok, so then I moved to the Commons (they were moving us all over when it was brand new), and I got a new roommate from Japan. I REALLY liked her!! She was so nice and we got along well, although whenever I spent the night at my boyfriends place (he was a local American), she'd leave notes on my pillow saying she was worried about me. I guess that's not so bad! She also panicked when we were down to 8 rolls of toilet paper, and brushed her teeth in the kitchen sink (she hated brushing them in the bathroom). But those are just observations, not complaints. LMAO, one not-so-serious complaint though was her damn "Hello Kitty" alarm clock! It was huge, loud, and annoying! It would wave it's arms and sing a song, and blink it's eyes, and was so loud it woke up the whole apartment!! LMAO!!!!
Oh my Gosh... I definitely hope I won't end up with weird people like that!!! The one who pretended you had beaten her must have been really crazy 'cause that's a very nasty thing to do :-\ Having sex next to you ??? Didn't she had any self-respect? HORRIBLE! Well, thanks for sharing your experiences
Ah Linda!!! Someone who thinks like me!!! I agree that I didn't go down there to hang out with people from my own country!!!! I said this at my throw-out and it really pissed people off!!!! But it's true!!! I can hang out with you guys at home!!!!!!!!!!!!
As everyone has said, well you got rooms for two at least LOL, not single occupancy et all, at least you get lucky and you don't receive roomies for a while or get an apartament with just few roomates for a while, I live like a month by myself in my room, actually I arrive and the room was empty so I was the first to pick my bed and get installed, some of my friends were lucky too cause they got even apartments of two for them alone for 4 months even, but when house is full you will always can negociate to move to another room or interchange places or in the worst case ask for an apartment change, of course you have to pay the fee but sometimes it's so worthy. I lived in an apartment for six, had lots of roomies, some dirty, some just great, some loud and crazy, but at the end I remember them all so great. I lived in 1918 Central Park LOL, with Marco Miano, Rudolph, Frank, Robert, Clemente, and some others in the beggining and the end like Oyvding and Brendan. I just miss a lot my place, was so special for me, I had the same room, bed and apartment for the whole year. RUBEN!
Oh my God Sarah Jane! Thats horrible! Im really excited about the whole thing; living and working in Disney and making new friends from all over the world. The only thing that i'm worried about is whether i'll have a nice (normal!) room mate! :-\
Usually you always end up liking SOMEONE n your apt. And if you are really lucky you get along with all your roomies or l-like me- love a few and don't mind the others. It actually worked out quite well in my apt,, we respected each other, spent time with each other, but didn't annoy us. I absolutely adored my two mexican roomies I was sharing my bedroom with during my year and my norwegian roomie ( who was in the other bedroom ) as well. We were like sisters and that's the best possible way it can turn out. I miss them a bunch! Yoiu grow so close to each other, it's great!...I had some friends with horrible roomies, someone had to get them right??? haha But don't worry, you will all be ok.... Julia
