Dinners with the Interns

Tonight, my housemates and I had dinner together. We do this several times a week, but this time was a little different. We had smooth jazz playing in the backround and ate dinner in the candlelight. We talked about restaurants we wanted to go to and laughed about how we had made our own restaurant. The meal was simple, hamburgers, fries, salad and grapes, but we all made a piece of it, and we all helped clean up (another first). It was so nice and relaxing. Our house is becoming a home full of wonderful food, conversations, and people. 

I went to Newark yesterday to meet up with Olivia to go to the mall, and her whole house decided to join. It was a great night. Shopping, followed by dinner at Ruby Tuesdays. We had possibly the slowest waiter ever, but it seemed to me like one of those dinners that just take a long time, but it doesn't really matter because you are among friends. If the food took longer than expected, it's ok because you're so busy chatting that you barely notice time passing as quickly as it is. It was a great break from eating in all the time, and it was great being around my friends that I don't see as much. 

People revolve their lives around food. I think one of the reasons we're supposed to eat together as interns is because it helps us build our community. Through these dinners, we're slowly becoming a family (a weird, multi-racial one, but a family none the less) It's wonderful that after two months of moving in with strangers, you feel comfortable enough to talk to them about almost anything. I'm hoping as the next months progress, and we experience more (we're hoping to go pumpkin and apple picking soon!) we become even closer as a house and as a whole intern group as well.

Courtney