When I came in my dorm room, 606 in Benson Hall, I felt the wind of nervousness and excitement. I felt nervousness because it was my first time to live away from my home and living with a person I knew only one year. I brought everything with me like pictures, posters, gift wrappers, and tape.
I sensed a mixed energy from the room because there were positive and negative things inside the room. I found some good things such like wall holes from poster tacks which made me to think which kind of poster the previous resident putted on a poster of Bob Marley, Watchmen, retro, or puppies. Other positive things were about my desk, there is some slight thin scratches around the drawers and it made me think how did the person got it by chipping with a chair, a shoe, or heavy object which have to drag instead carry. Negative things such like a stain on the middle of floor because it may be pee or vomit. Other thing is dull brown stain on wall next to the door and it could be a soda pop spill, coffee, or worst things like vomit!
The room belongs to me today because I redesigned the room by moving my roommate’s bed to the farther left wall and my bed on the right wall next to the door, dragging the two huge dressers on the wall next to the door and opposite to the window, putting two drawers on top and bottom between the two dressers, and added my futon on the wall next to the window. Also added a small television and end table in the corner between the huge dresser and my roommate bed that gives the people to have their own privacy while vpping and putted my roommate and my desks under our beds. Then stashed our stuff behind the desks and inside the drawers.
I put my favorite floor rug over the stain on the carpet, added all pictures and posters on the walls which covered the blank white paint, wrapped my gift wrappers on all drawers and boring tan wood pieces of furniture, added a nice futon in the middle of room which made the room half of living room and half of bedroom, and added my style – hippy, retro, and colorful into the room. It made other people to feel more inviting because we got space to sit down and chat, feel so cozy when lay down on my floor rug, or feel so relaxed by looking at my posters and pictures all over the walls.
