And now for the awesome part, a giveaway! One lucky winner will receive a "roommate survival kit"which includes earplugs, home spa essentials, a signed copy of "Roomies" with a note from the authors and other things of greatness-all in a shower caddy!
All you have to do to enter is to fill out the Google Docs below with your name (or alias) and email. Also, to earn three extra entrees, you can write a roommie story! (about your sibling, or someone from camp, school, etc)
Here is mine:
Freshman year of college, I didn't really have the best of luck with roommates. I had one roommate, Maddie, for a quarter. Even though we were civil to each other, we never really talked. She was really good friends with the duo across the hall from us, while I got along more with my friend from high school who lived a couple of doors down from me and Ellen and Soo, who lived at the end of the hall.
After Maddie left, I savored the half a quarter that I could have the whole room to myself. A few people inquired about it, but no one really stayed until my second roommate. She moved all of her stuff in on a Friday and moved all of it back out the next Sunday because of her anxiety. I called her my weekend roommate.
My last roommie was, Emily. Emily and I were polar opposites. While I tried to bring as little stuff to school as possible, Emily did not. Her side was filled to the brim with shoes, pillows, etc etc. All of which were a very bright shade of pink. Everything she owned was pink which greatly contrasted my un-colorcoordinated side. She was nice and we would have small chat, but since we were so different and held different interests and also since we only had a quarter to get to know each other, it was hard to actually get close.
During Sophomore year, Ellen and Soo (who I became really close with) became my roommates and we are living together now in our apartment as juniors. Soo and I connected because we are both science majors hoping to work in the medical field. Ellen and I are really good friends because we basically have the exact same interests. Ellen and I would stay up late at night discussing feminist theory or our latest tv show obsessions. Or the three of us will have impromptu dance parties, blasting whatever we feel like listening to (typically Disney music) and singing and dancing like there's no tomorrow. So, even though my Freshman year roommies did not work out well, luckily, my new roommates did. You just have to keep looking for that or those perfect people who will be accompany you in whatever stage of life you have reached.
Contest open only to US residents (sorry!) and will end on January 17, 2014 at 11:59 PM.
Roomies came out on December 24, 2013, so if you do not win the prize, you still have a chance of reading it by checking out your local bookstore or library!
If you want check out Sara and Tara's tour dates!
*January 12, 2014-New York, NY: McNally Jackson
*January 15, 204-Salt Lake city, UT: The King's English
*January 16, 2014-Provo, UT: Provo Library
*February 4, 2014-San Francisco, CA: Books inc, Opera Plaza
*February 5, 2014-Petaluma, CA: Copperfield's Books
Wdebo :)
