To set our house in order

Well, we just had our first Co-op meeting. Pretty fun, actually, and so very idealistic. If 50% of what we planned holds up, we should be fine.

So yes, it was mostly about chores and who buys/cleans what, and in the end we all agreed that we'd need to form a comittee to divide up the work. Several of us saw the irony in that.

Also: The two teenagers living on my floor are basically useless. I mean useless as in "lacking basic survival skills" useless. They have "first time away from home" as a rather good excuse, but beyond that, they really need to learn some basic housekeeping skills. As those words are coming from me, you should be able to guess how bad it is. And I finally got to meet the other people living at the house, not just the ones whom I randomly bumped into in the kitchen or on the stairs. There's actually four guys at the house now, including me, one of which shares the room with his sister. That is, in my opinion, sort of odd. But hey, their room, their problem. Speaking of the house, I'll try to get off my ass tomorrow and actually do the whole house/neighbourhood photo tour tomorrow.

Why I didn't do that today? Eh, well. Bad news from back home, let us sum it up like that. My grandfather is in hospital, and that worries me, of course. I'm worried, and that amplified my homesickness many times. Yes, I'm homesick. Very much so. It's nothing bad, but I really do feel kind of down overall today. It's that feeling that I shouldn't be here, wasting my time, but actually at home doing...well...doing nothing. And that's just it. I can do nothing, neither here nor at home, it's just a generally weird feeling that I'm somehow letting my family down, even though I know that it isn't like that to them. And because of that, the city outside feels less awesome and new, but more big, empty and strange. Oh look at me, all angsty.

Tomorrow though, classes start, and I'll be forced to deal with all kinds of problems and course schedules and assignments, so I'll have less time for all that.

But still, the worry remains.