Repairing Student Destruction

Have you ever walked into someone's house and wondered how everyone living there hasn't come down with some kind of disease - Hepititis A, Typhoid, Mad Cow, what have you. I have. Urban House is transforming student apartments back into hostels for the summer, and venturing into the filth these students created amazes me. I just can't believe none of these kids died!! Imagine the most appalling, abused state an apartment could be in after 5 months of reckless parties and I promise you, these apartments were much much worse.

38 Fermin Calbeton - an inaccurate, unfair introduction to the destruction that lay ahead. All it needed was a deep clean and something to cover the dart-board wall before we could let people stay here in good conscience. I was sure the next places wouldn't be so bad. I was so young. So naive.

2 Plaza Gipuzcoa, Floor 1 - This apartment has that European charm - and by that I mean it is falling apart. This may have something to do with the fact that the students confused their home for an indoor skate park - not sure how that happened! Scuffed floors, dented walls, a gaping hole in the floor and an ashtray that looks mysteriously like a kitchen table. I don't like to cook in this apartment for entirely health related reasons.

2 Plaza Gipuzcoa, Floor 3 - Higher in altitude as well as on the tragic scale. I don't like to inhale in this apartment for entirely health related reasons. Judging by the contents of the fridge, these students survived on a strict diet of expired sausage (which they left behind for us) and we suspect something died in a garbage can and was left to rot. Our suspicions were confirmed when Rudy rode the elevator with the garbage bag and barfed.

Considering the trauma we've experienced, it's important that team morale stays high. This is what the office is for. Harmonica jam-sessions, YouTube videos, fluorescent fanny-packs, naked Barbies - and who can resist the sight of two stuffed rats mating in the office window? Not me, that's for sure. I can honestly say that team morale is at a record high... largely due to this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN5YbfFszlI