Corinne's Blog

I’ve been having a really hard time deciding what I was going to do about my living situation this next summer 2o09. This is why:

 My family is moving! Yet again my mother has decided to have us kids pack up everything we own to relocate to yet another building to live…maybe for a year like in the last 2 places or maybe for more.

I grew up in a stable environment that I thought Iwould live in forever! At the age of 16 or 17 I forget I moved from my nice house at 3200 DuPont Ave South Mpls and I moved to an apt in North Mpls. Exactly a Summer later my mom was offered to move into the house of a family friend because the family friend was becoming an empty nester and she needed someone to fill the space. Since last Summer my family had been living with that woman Mrs. Ndosi in Golden Valley MN until NOW…when my mother decides that she’d like to find a place to call her own…once again in NORTH MINNEAPOLIS.

North Minneapolis is known for it’s bad crime rate and it’s terrible looking neighborhoods and I don’t want my siblings growing up in such an environment. I’ve already graduated from High school in Edina and I know the stereotypes that are held because of people living in Mpls but the stereotypes get even worse when a person claims that they are from the north side of MPLS. My mom says that the place is great, and I believe her but I know that my brother Eric will be attending Edina High School next fall and that my sister might be attending Blake school because she was accepted, I don’t want them going through what I went through in trying to break the stereotypes that smart black children can grow up in places like NORTH MPLS or Minneapolis in General!

Since I can’t change my situation I must change myself. Since there will be no room for me in the apt in which my mother has bought…because she didn’t even consider me! I have to get an apt for this next summer and pay for it all by myself.

These were my options:

I could sublease from a guy named Nam Pham who is an RA and can’t living in the apt he has signed the lease for for the summer. It would be 250$ a month plus utilities.

Then there is the Theta chi option which I have chosen…I would be be living in the theta chi house surrounded by 10-15 males that I know and trust with the rent of 325 dollars a month which I must pay before every 30th.

So I’m not living at home for the summer and I’m preparing to go study abroad for half the summer anyway. In which case I will be renting storage space…Fun right?

So I’m packing and I’m figuring it out…though it sucks. I’m excited to live in the Theta chi house but I’m not excited about what I’ll do with my situation next SUMMER.