Did you see the letter in the paper about the kitchens?

Yeah. I did. What did you think?
Oh, I really like her ideas. She’s right that no one really cooks in there. Now. I know I sure don’t. After my own experience.

What was that?

Well, I came back to the dorm one night, all wet from getting caught in a rainstorm. And I just wanted to warm up with a cup of tea. So I went into the kitchen. But all I could find was this battered old teapot that was been out of shape. And there were no cups around at all.

That doesn’t sound like fun.

It wasn’t. And frankly, it was so inconvenient that I never used the kitchen again. But having some nice new stuff could make a real difference.

And What about her other suggestion? Do you think you’d wanna go to them?

Oh, definitely. And I think other students would too, because a lot of us come here without basic skills. But there are students here who actually know quite a lot about cooking. And I’ll bet they would be willing to teach the rest of us what they know.

Great idea. It would probably make more students want to go to them.

Right. And learning new recipes together would be fun. There are so many cool things to cook.