Now, sitting on a mat in her two square metres of floor space walled by cardboard boxes, she is waiting for a promised call to tell her if she has been allocated an escape from the gym, into temporary housing.
It resembled a jungle gym on which temporary structures could disport themselves like gangly children.
On Wednesday, the first of the academy's students left their temporary makeshift classrooms in the gym of the Police Athletic League in Roosevelt and moved into their new quarters on Pleasant Avenue.
Get a hotel with a fitness center or purchase a temporary pass at the local gym.
At the height of the prison overcrowding crisis several years ago, the gym served as a temporary "emergency" sleeping area at California State Prison-Los AngeLancaster, Califncaster, CaLancaster, Calif
(When he wears a leather jacket and sunglasses, it almost seems like a temporary costume change). He hits the gym every morning without fail and throughout the campaign primarily subsisted on salmon, broccoli and brown rice.
Some CrossFit boxes, as the gyms are called, offer temporary homes for group indoor rowing start-ups as they already have the machines and the space.
On Wednesday morning, he hauled two bags of salvaged gear and stopped at the gym before heading to his temporary location.
At East Avenue Church in Chico, 200 people made temporary homes in church classrooms, in a gym filled with cots, air mattresses and couches, and in tents set up in a field on the property.
All across the path of destruction left by the storm, classrooms, gyms and church basements became temporary quarters for thousands of those left homeless.
