Welfare Trip to the Apartments

The apartments are an anomaly in KYUEM - too far from anywhere, any student who lives there generally only returns to sleep. We paid a surprise spotcheck to the apartments, to ascertain there were no students building a nuclear reactor there, and emerged with a few pertinent issues.

FIRST - there is NO proper route there. Students either traverse the mini-football field at the end of the girls' chalets, in the process incurring the wrath of every single female inhabitant on the way, OR they take the main road detour and spend at least 30 minutes on the road every day.

SECOND - living conditions are atrocious. Garnet apartment dwellers report the "unsightly stench of cockroaches" scurrying round - one bedroom has BOTH a door with a semi-faulty knob and a wardrobe with a lock that insistently fails to lock. Thus, they have no place to store their vital items, making us wonder when would-be thieves would stumble on this gold mine.

THIRD - the kids there are just TOO far off homebase. They do not present themselves at taklims, are left out of many house activities at night, and don't even have a PROPER meeting place. One student has to stay in his room, all alone, at night, thus he has moved to the next-door apartment. The fact that staying in his room alone gives him the chills speaks of the desolation of the apartments.

Oh, and by the way, the floors have an inch-thick layer of dust, with more to come, without proper cleaning equipment.

Hizami and I left disturbed, and wondering...what they would do one day when it begins raining at 8.15am, right before class.

God bless their poor souls and commend their fortitude.