An independent life

voila then it struck on the 19th of sept that i was in a different country all by own .Freedom at last but also sad that i didnt have any help .

Oh k its been a long time since I updated my blog, after building up ur curiosity about my Spanish apartment I didn’t write for a week , Yeh my far east friends who helped me with my luggage .I was not carrying a lot to be honest it was just 30 kgs. But nevertheless introduced myself to them they seem to be nice and friendly,I had no idea at this point of time that I will be sharing virtually every things with these living beings and what a wonderful experience it would all turn out to be over the next 12 months.

But upon crashing in my room with the door shut and briefly unpacking the stuff and eating and ready to cook meal. I just realised how quiet my room and neighbourhood was. I was alien to this, believe me I was brought in a environment surrounded by 13 people (joint family) never had a room until one year before I came here and sleeping with four other siblings in fairly big room, sleeping in dorm style bunk beds Where everybody was fighting for one desk on that we had to study .Life was strangely different it was better but It would certainly take some transition time to switch modes.

I was addicted to Chaos I felt comfortable sleeping a huge pile and people screaming, in fact I could sleep peacefully if I wanted to, may be this has to do with the fact that I was brought up in a house next to 2 big factories on either sides with heavy noise which only when silent on a Sunday. When I used to go to my dads machine shop for some more noise . So random noise, lots of people and chaos was a essential part of my life which was now all but gone!!!!!!

Looked out of the window for a living soul not a man in sight on this long winding road .Then it hit me I was in an alien atmosphere with no bedding!!!! and it was cold and getting colder …….. oh not looking good .So came down asking for the nearest supermarket .Went out where I met another guy from my country sooo happy to see him so we went along to buy some food came back .

Finally after 2 days of constantly being home sick and meeting some friends outside who where feeling the same as me some more home sick than me which made me feel better J.So the 3rd day of my stay in this house I pretty much met all my housemates in one sitting until then I think no body had arrived so it was like I was will living in a ghost house.

Well it was a truly international house one person from each country
Brazil
South Korea
China,
Uk,
Belgium,
India

7 people 6 countries not bad eh it was like we could have a UN conference right here. All of them were very friendly and helpful and above no chavs everyone really matured and jovial.
Some of them really nice characters like very animated English, and much organised Brazilian and highly intelligent Chinese and disciplined and very clean Korean. Here I was dirty, well not dirty but not very clean certainly unorganised fellow thrown into this flat.
Slowly found out where the temple was to get free food once a week and Started talking to my flatmates who I seem to be getting to know quiet well.

It was alien for me to cook alone and eat alone as well so I decided to invite 3 of my Indian friends to come along since all these years of eating with at least 6 members of the family it felt a bit weird. Cooking started with had some minor issues with the cleaning and stuff but I made sure we started cooking when everyone else had finished.


Living in UK was an eye and bottle opener J by itself I learnt to be self reliant surving on my own money .When all my friends where running out of money due to their spendaholic altitude I was quiet content that I had survived until now without any major hitches.

I gradually started to appreciate all the small things in life like the walk up to the library passing through a lot of parks and beautiful Victorian style buildings were some of our classes were held like everywhere here too the Mechanical department is as old as the university.

Or things like spending time with mates and drinking games which again I was not used to. Classes went smooth and fine some hitches with submitting assignments but as always some sleepless nights were spent and some more early mornings in fellow classmates place. We all supported and worked on various project .Here too the multiple culture experience we where a class of 10 which was a mixture of Greek, Indian ,Chinese ,Italian ,Mexican ,Turkish and surprisingly just One from UK.