So I've moved into a house in Grand Rapids with some friends from college, and we are in the process of getting settled in and adjusting to no longer living in the dorms. It's been fun, but very tiring and (sometimes) very frustrating. Even though I'm not living with 200 other people now, I still have to get used to living with other people and dealing with their ways of running a house. Compromising is not my forte, but I'm trying.
I've already frustrated my roommates plenty of time with leaving the back door unlocked, because according to some of them, "we live in the hood," and to be safe we always lock the doors, even when we're in the house. I hate to play Little Miss Boondocks, but I still can't seem to wrap my mind around the idea that we have to lock the door, because my family has seriously never locked the door my entire life. I guess I just don't like the idea that we have to lock ourselves in our own home, but oh well.
