The dorms at Rhodes College are these really beautiful Georgian houses with balconies and intricate moldings. Indoors, they are dorms like any other. Marcus and I are in one of the few available double rooms on Campus, which basically makes it a Packard Hall dorm room at Spelman. It has a bookcase along the wall when you first enter the door’sHana outside of the Milner House
narrow hallway, followed by one closet, one dresser built into the wall, and a sink also built into a wall cubbyhole. When you turn right, there is another bookshelf lining one wall and a desk lining the opposite. There are two twin beds separated by a small side table. Although, the first thing Marcus did was rearrange the room, moving the side table next to the bookshelf and pushing the two beds together to create one queen size bed. Which for all practical purposes is great because the rooms are freezing. There is no central heating basically anywhere in South Africa. If you are lucky you will stay in a hotel or bed & breakfast that has a space heater. The dorm rooms have a small electric heater in each room, but someone decided the best place for the heater would be at the top of the wall near the ceiling. GREAT. Hot air rises. Cold air sinks. So more often than not the rooms are cooler than the night air, which yesterday was about 30 degrees. Now, I haven’t slept in a dorm room quite like this in almost a decade, so I forgot about the absolute imperative of shower shoes. The bathrooms have two toilet stalls, two shower stalls, and two bathtubs. Because the dorms are not usually coed they have converted a bathroom on the top floor and reserved it for men and left the bathroom on the second floor female. Apparently the male dorms do not for the most part have bathtubs. So there is a little treat for the female students in Grahamstown.
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