February started with lots of shovelling. Within the Act Five house, each person has a house chore, like cleaning the bathroom, organizing the fridges, etc. Mine for this semester is the outside areas, including shovelling. There was one day when my activities for the day were cancelled due to shovelling and so I went and shovelled the sidewalk of the entire street. As a community house, the snow also meant that we were frequently summoned to push out people’s cars as a house of sixteen people can free a car from a snowbank fairly quickly most of the time.
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