Living in a Wardli

Living in a Wardli is really hard. One of the difficulties of the Wambana camp is having to clean up our Wardli to perfection. We are given Wardli points which reset to 20 every day. We lose a certain amount of points for leaving certain things un-completed. If we leave our air conditioner on we lose five points. If we leave a light turned off we lose two points. The easier it is to do something the more points we lose for not having it done. In a way Wardli points represent the condition of your Wardli. If you have 20 then your conditions are perfect. If you have zero or less then you would have everyone notice the poor condition of the Wardli. If you have zero or less Wardli points then you are forced to camp outside for the night.

The highs of a Wardli
sleeping in a bed
Being able to refrigerate food
having a roof over my head
having far less flies
Having shelter when it rains

The lows of a Wardli
Having to clean in free time
losing Wardli points if we clean poorly
Having to spend half our day shopping
living with people i don't know
Being threatened by my wardli members

Ive found out that I'm really quite hopeless when it comes to cleaning and cooking around the Wardli. I just end up cooking a schnitzel that takes about 10 minutes and in the meantime try to make up for my poor cleaning job. I often have to ask about when cleaning something for how to clean it. Then I normally get told something wrong and later get told off for cleaning up my Wardli poorly.
Today we had a discussion about problems that people are having inside the Wardli. I raised the issue about how useless i felt with the cleaning. We talked about what could be done about that and one of the Wambana staff suggested that i only do two jobs and that those jobs be consistent instead of rotating jobs on the roster. I suggested that (in order to avoid having to repeatedly ask about what to do) i could write down what i needed to do to clean the place and then i could go through the list like a checklist or (as i had put it) almost like a cooking recipe.
After we had our Wardli meeting and were told that we had only lost two wardli points today all of a sudden the entire wardlis attitude changed. All of a sudden everyone was slacking off and i was the only one trying to get anything clean. They kept telling me that they didn't need to clean up until tomorrow morning and i kept telling them that if they don't then we would all be out of our wardlis for tomorrow night. Then someone told me that he had liked sleeping out in the tent. I had told him he could if he wanted but not to bring everyone else there with him and he said that he had liked it but not wanted to. Id said that in that case he should get around to cleaning up and he wandered off.
Yesterday we had one of the kids from the other Wardlis playing around with the kids in my Wardli. I dont know what was going on but the kids were trying to keep him out of the Wardli (something which he was not allowed to do or else he is out.) This would have been fine if they hadnt locked the door (which we are not allowed to do or else were out of the Wardli). I unlocked it, they locked it, I unlocked it and while we kept repeating this i told them that we werent allowed to lock the door. Once i was finished saying this i began to walk away when one of them locked the door again. I unlocked it and kept unlocking it and eventually the kid came around to the door, poked his head in and said "hi guys". Then one of the kids (i know who these kids are but im not allowed to accuse them on here) grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and when i knocked his arm away and went to punch him in the face he said "dude, i was joking". I walked away angry and i was even angrier (is that a word?) afterwards when he had asked me if i was "O.K" I replied that i was fine but whenever i get angry at them (and this is always with a reason that comes from not wanting to be kicked out of our Wardlis) im always asked later if im "O.K" Its annoying the heck out of me.
It occured to me while here about how hard it must be for my parents to clean up at home. I probably dont help out much but ive found that what i do hasent been contirbuting to a poor state of house. If i clean my bowls and plates then theoretically i should have no negative impact on the state of the house.