travelweasel

I’m staying at the City Center Hostelling International in San Francisco. It’s located in the Tenderloin, which has the reputation of the area to stay out of. This is mostly because of the large homeless population, and I do not feel that the area is any more dangerous than the Red Light District, which is where the popular Green Tortoise is located.  Anyway the hostel is pretty great. Staff are very friendly and helpful and the rooms have just four beds, a bathroom and a closet! My only complaint here is that there is only one light in the room, so if one person is up everyone is. Free breakfast means bagels, toast, OJ, tea and coffee (all day), and fruit and cream cheese for an extra $.50 (which I think is sort of lame).Also the place is full of French high schoolers who are here to study English. They aren’t so bad, but are hard to communicate with. Today, on Thanksgiving, they were trying to bake two turkeys. At 5:00 pm they had just started to defrost it, and were arguing over whether they could do so in the microwave (the thing didn’t end up fitting in the microwave.) I think it’s still cooking now.