#LifeOfAStudent Post 20 : The biggest gift

I didn't expect that I will be writing the last post under #LifeOfAStudent just hours after I wrote the 19th one. But, like I said, I am really excited. My eagerness to write the last post is partly because I saw a movie yesterday which celebrated the theme of my post in the best possible way. For those who haven't seen it yet, go watch YJHD asap. :) Today, I am going to tell you about the best gift of a student's life...

Everyone has friends. You, your siblings, cousins, parents, aunts, uncles and even your grandparents have friends. At every stage, you'll want friends. No matter how much detachment you can bear, you'll always be in need of them. You'll find friends at your place of work and also in the park where you will go for a walk years and years later. But, the friends that you'll make in school or in college will always be special. And that's why the biggest gift that a student's life gives a student is not marks or a teacher's appreciation. The biggest and the best gift will be friendship.

You may have one person with whom you share your deepest secrets or a bunch of people with whom you'll laugh your heart out. But, you'll always need someone. :) Not having friends can be disastrous and injurious to health. You'll go crazy, dissolve yourself in books or in things that you don't want. In other words, you'll turn non-human. And that's not cool!

Life of a student gives you friends. We make a lot of friends. Even though we'll sit with a particular person or will have get-togethers with just a couple of friends, we have lots of friends. That person who sits in front of you and with whom you only talk when you're in class is your friend too. And so is that person who simply eats from your lunch box without asking! ;)

Today, the memories of my pre-nursery school are blurred. But, the thing I remember clearly is my friend. She later joined some other school. It's been 12 years or so since I last saw her. If my brain's not creating images on its own(which I hope its not), then I even remember her face... :) My Lower Infant memories are again circled around my friends. We were five sitting around a round table. I remember each one of them even though I'll have to google Humpty Dumpty to recall the poem. ;)
I remember the friends I had in class four(the last year in that school), especially the one who used to sit next to me. She and I would compete in maths. I remember we were pretty different, we had different opinions about everything. But, then we did have a few common likes. Maths, was one of them. Unfortunately, I lost contact with her and a few others. It's been 5 years since I last saw them all. Thanks to Facebook, I came in contact with a lot of them. :)

I am just 14(15 in a month ;) ), but I do believe that coming to bbsr was one of the best things that ever happened to me(if not the best). It's here that I not only made 4 friends for life, but also a lot others with whom I'd like to remain in contact forever. Thanks to Facebook(again), that won't be very difficult. My closest 4 friends are all crazy. All are not like me. One of them is diametrically opposite to me. But, still we're together. When my fourth friend left bbsr, we stayed in contact for quiet some time and we still chat. But, let's be honest, we did lose contact. If there's one thing I wish for other than going back to bbsr is that I should always remain in touch with them. Always! :) My life as a student gave me the chance of meeting people that I wouldn't have interacted with otherwise. It gave me crazy, stupid, bizarre, mad friends. It gave me my wonderful classmates who are the best scrapbook-makers and the best surprise organisers in the whole world. I got crazy cricket umpires and cricket experts who would ask me to pitch the ball here and there :P. I met people who would never complete the home-work and would ask my notebook first thing in the morning! ;) I met a girl who's crazy about her native state and with whom I plan to open a patisserie someday. I met the best emcee script writer, PJ queen, craziest 1D fan, a wonderful story-writer and so many other talented, crazy people! ;)

You would agree, wouldn't you, if I say that friends that you make in school, memories that you have with them, will go along with you wherever you go? And that years later, you'll be seated with your colleague and telling him/her crazy tales about your school life? And when you get a phone call from an unknown number and you hear your best friend on the other side, no one will be happier than you? And wouldn't you have dreams about bumping into your friends in some mall, restaurant, busy road or just anywhere?

With that it's the end of the series. :) I hope you've liked reading the posts!
So, one last time : #LifeOfAStudent :D

I'm missing you : Would've been this way

Yep! I finally changed the post title from I'll miss you to I'm missing you. That is because its been a week since I came to this city of lakes. So how do I find it? Boring! You would say that I am blinded by my desire to go back to Bhubaneswar, to my friends, to my school. Perhaps, you are right. I still call my previous school "my school" because even though I am miles away, I feel like I belong to that school only! I joined my new school a few days back. How do I find it? Not good! Rather, not as good as my previous school(my alma mater).
Missing friends just makes making new friends all the more difficult. I don't feel like saying a polite hello early in the morning or even a good-bye at the end of the day. During breaks, I look at my watch and think about my friends and what they might be doing at that hour. It's harder than I thought.
Dislike for the city and the school too makes life boring and dull. If nothing would have changed, my day would've been like this :
Waking up early in the morning. I get dressed up for school and gulp down the breakfast before going down to wait for my van to come. I get inside the van. My friend and junior sits down beside me and our endless chatter begins. We are the only two people talking other than toddlers. The van stops before the school gate. I bid her good-bye and enter my class. I keep my heavily loaded bag on the bench and get inside the adjacent classroom where my friends are waiting. The first thing I hear one of them say is that she was walking just behind me and I didn't notice. After that we chat about KKR's loss the day before. The bell rings. Time to go. I grab the hand of my classmate, who was also in the other section all this while, and walk back to my class. After the morning prayer, the classes begin. We study for four periods and then the bell rings. Time to go back to my friends. We go to the badminton lawn and stand under the shadows of our favourite tree. After eating lunch, we go back only to meet again in the games period. We, with a little bit of difficulty, grab hold of a bat. We drag one of our friends from the basketball court to play cricket(of course that takes some pleading). After bowling and begging my friends to field, I go back to my class. Then we study for another 2 periods. The school gets over. After bidding good-bye to two of my friends and my classmates, I walk to my van with my friend. On reaching my van, I bid her good-bye and she says that I am always trying to send her away. While going back, my friend and I still talk over all sorts of topics ranging from IPL teams to how she could be used for testing that water vapour's present in the air. :P I would come back to my home, have lunch, freshen up, watch tv and then go and study for the upcoming exams. I pack my bag before going to sleep and then wait for sleep to come(it never took a lot of time). I look forward to the next morning. 
That would've been a normal day for me in Loyola. I know that I am never going to have it ever again. :( 

Get-together diaries

So, finally I've got something interesting to write about :D

Yesterday, we had a get-together at a friend's place. One of my friends was missing :P But, it was great fun!!

I can't wait to share all that happened...

We were just three girls. When I reached at my friend's place, we chatted for a while, listened to music and clicked pictures. Then we went into the kitchen where icing supplies were kept ready for us. We began icing the awesome pure chocolate cupcakes brought by my other friend. It was an awesome experience. It was our first time and I am sure that everyone enjoyed just as much as I did. 

                                      

                                                           The pure choco cupcakes...

                                      

                                                                       After icing....

                                      

                                                     That was iced by me.. pretty, huh?

We had lunch. Went to the terrace and and chatted away the time. ;) 

It was evening and it was time for us to help my friend bake her first cake! We checked the recipe on net and made sure that all the ingredients were at home. We then began the prep. 

It was hilarious and outrageously funny to see her mix the batter. She was so new at this!! We helped her with the mixing and the batter was ready!

                                      

We poured it into a baking dish and it was time to bake. We waited anxiously for the cake to come out of the oven. After 25 minutes, the cake was done. When my friend took out the cake from the tin, we were all overjoyed. It was beautifully cooked. Soft and spongy! :D

We iced the cake a bit and we were ready to serve. 

                                     

                                      

It was a yummmmy cake!!! I hope she learnt something useful and fun.

Like all good things, the day came to an end. But, I thoroughly enjoyed the day. I look forward to more such good times with my lovely friends :)

Friendship Day!

My friend : What do you want for friendship day?

Me(writing impulsively) : You!

My friend : I love you!

What I wrote, was directly from my heart. 

Friendship is just such a boon to all of us. I love all my friends so much! And by friends I obviously mean not only my inner circle of close friends but also everyone else! There is this ad which is so true. It says, "Har Ek Friend Zaroori Hota Hai", which means, that every friend is important. 

I have so many different personalities whom I call my friends... And life would have been so different without them! 

If I didn't have a friend who studied hard from morning till night, I wouldn't have had the urge to pick up the book! ;) 

If I didn't have a friend who was super passionate about dancing, I wouldn't have ever tried to find my passion! :)

If I didn't have a friend who was a crazy fan of Harry Potter, I wouldn't have read the series and I would have missed something really good!! :D

If I didn't have a friend who was crazy after a band, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to laugh at someone's insanity! :P

If I didn't have a friend who used to always finish the syllabus months before the exams, I wouldn't have started before a month was left for the exams...!! :)

If I didn't have a friend who was so bold and outrageously funny, I wouldn't have had a hard laugh! :)

If I didn't have a friend who was famous for cracking poor jokes, I wouldn't have had anyone to hit with a book! :P

All you guys are important.. I haven't mentioned the characterisitics of 'all' my friends. There are so many of you!! But, that doesn't mean that you aren't important..! You all are!

Here's wishing a really happy friendship day to everyone! Lots of Love!! :D <3

I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, so swiftly it flew, the sight

Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For who has sight so keen and strong,

That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak

I found the arrow, still unbroke;

And the song, from beginning to end,

I found again in the heart of a friend.

- H. W. Longfellow