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HOUSING

Random facts about Vision 16

By Rebecca Livingston

In the girl's houses:

  • In the girls houses each girl cleans once a week, does dishes once a week and cooks dinner once a week.
  • Each girl is in a small group with a house facilitator, at least one girl from each house and has a mentor who is an older lady in the community.
  • The only beef ever seen in the houses is ground beef.
  • If one of the girls birthday is during the summer, they celebrate their half birthday.
  • Vision girls expect Vision boys to ask them to Vision 16 events.

In the boy's houses:

  • The boys do small group chore and dish duty once a week.
  • The boys pay extra rent and have a cook for lunch and dinner Monday through Friday of the school year.
  • Many of the boys are involved in house sports teams and philanthropies through sororities.
  • The boys do not celebrate birthdays.
  • Most of the boys do not ask Vision girls to Vision 16 events.

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