Houses? Like dorms? Well shoot the Stefen's impromptu guardian certainly didn't tell him about this, he just assumed that students would be separated by gender and lumped into one inclusive dorm. Well, Stefen would at least try to save face,

[color=yellow]"Ja, just ze cheapest one, hopefully not too far from classes, vouldn't vant ma and pa to into vorryings."[/color]

Hopefully that would be a suitable answer, in fact Stefen felt rather pleased with his response:  quick, honest, humble and- they're giving Stefen confused looks...