As a kid I always wondered how much of fun it would be to live in a hostel. “Freedom” was the thought I associated the most with hostel life. I could wear the clothes I liked, eat ‘chinese’ all the while , watch movies online (as the connection at home is 8kbps for download), eat ice-cream any time of the day (Mom always scolds if I eat ice-cream at night) ….soo many things ….
And I did most of these things which I wanted to during my stay @ Dubai.
Apart from these fantasies of eating and having fun, on one hand I always wanted to stay in a hostel and thought about eating, studying, partying together while on the other hand I feared staying with someone who could be so unlike me.
My dreams and wish came to reality during my course in Dubai. I stayed in a hostel which was soooo far away from the city. In the country of deserts we were actually deserted: D. Before I reached Dubai, there was a girl from our batch from Delhi who had asked me if I would mind sharing the room with her. Since she was from Delhi and sounded ‘Sabhya’ on phone I thought ‘what’s the harm?’. I landed in Dubai early morning @1 AM. We waited for another flight to arrive as we had a common pick-up from the airport and then proceeded to the hostel. When we reached there @ 4 AM in the morning. While we had our registration I asked for the room I had pre-fixed. I reached my room and got a warm welcome from my roomy. She asked me if I would like to have tea/coffee. I was impressed with my decision to choose her as my roomy. I just kept my luggage and went to sleep. Then next day morning I had my first break-fast which wasn’t a breakfast actually. I had my brunch ‘puri-bhaji’. That morning I saw few of my class-mates roaming outside the building gate. To my surprise I saw girls in mini-shorts and I said to myself “Priyu welcome to the hostel world”
I unpacked my stuff and then had my 2 other roomies join me. Then later half of the evening I had the 5th member in my room. I had fun with all but one of my room –mates. And guess who this special element was – Yes you guessed it right!
She was the one who had welcomed me and as far as I remember that was the first and the last time I remember she asked me for a tea or coffee. This dame was Miss Famous of our batch. People used to talk about her all the times and she was an attention seeker too. I had a very nice time with my other room-mates. We used to eat , go for walks, play cards, study together. It was fun!! And we had a visiting neighbor always who used to give our talks a new direction. I enjoyed that part of my life in hostel. But when it came to sharing with someone whom I had started disrespecting it was tough! Believe me! It was so tough and unreasonable at times that I had to sit outside my room to study so that I could find some peace from the chaos that used to be happening in my room all the while.
Soon the days passed by doing assignments and studying for exams and quizzes. The day came when we had our ARP presentations and people started moving back to their home towns as they finished with their presentations. On the last day one of my room-mates made pysum for 3 of us and we had that in the morning. That was the most memorable day in my life :)
A year down the line I dont think anyone from my batch was so bad to be hated . Everyone was a darling and I have forgiven some people whom I hated frm heart.
Cheers to you roomies !!!
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