Ethnography

Ethnography

September 7, 2014

A Time To Relax

     The air is clean, fresh and cool, due to the rain that had fallen not too long ago. Sky is overcast and the sidewalks and the patio, along with all the bikes chained up on the inside are thoroughly soaked. Crickets and birds proceed to perform a happy symphony of sounds and clicks. It is Sunday, and the college dorm is enveloped in a in a serene silence.
     Ms. Recycle, wearing a white and grey baseball T and denim booty shorts, has just returned from emptying out her huge blue recycle bin. She returns to her dorm room on one of the upper floors. She will pass a couple open dorm doors along the way. One of the open doors reveal a girls room, with pink and black zebra sheets on one bed and patched green and pink sheets on the other. The all-too-trusting owners are nowhere to be seen.
     A tall young man, Mr. Lanky, leaves his dorm room with his arms holding a basket full of dirty laundry and heads toward the laundry room. Mr. Lanky quickly enters the laundry room, flings his clothes into the washer, promptly exits and hurriedly heads back to his room, leaving the door open. There are other people inside with him, a girl, Ms. Bro, wearing a black t-shirt and jeans was sitting on the floor next to Mr. Smalls, who was wearing a grey T-shirt and loose denim pants. Both Bro and Smalls were watching a video on Mr. Lanky's laptop, Lanky himself sitting himself at his desk and also watching. On the other side of the room Lanky's dorm mate, Mr. Hipsterbeard, who was wearing a grey bro tank and black sweats, was also watching something on his laptop which upon further listening seemed to be an episode of the anime series: Attack on Titan.
     Across the patio on the opposite side of Lanky's room were two girls. One, Ms. Comfortable, who was wearing a pink tie dye shirt with grey sweatpants, and the other, Ms. Hardnottosee, who was wearing a fluorescent orange T-shirt with fluorescent hot pink sneakers and spotless white sweats. Both young ladies were talking on the phone. Ms Comfortable speaking with her mother and Hardnottosee speaking with a friend.
   

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