Back to the grind

It's been exactly two weeks since I moved base to Symbiosis, and now that I finally have a laptop (yay) I can continue to keep this blog going.
When I first got here I was shocked at how easily I slipped back into college and hostel life. It was almost like I'd never left. I unpacked in an hour, figured out where the water cooler was, stocked up on coffee, tea, sugar, milk powder, cup noodles etc, and slept like I'd been drugged on my first night here. I also discovered that hostel food is the same, the nation over, that dal will always be watery, and if you have enough pickle, the human body can consume almost anything.
I met a ton of people and of course had the usual initial trouble of not really knowing who to talk to and where I fit in, but knowing that as long as there is someone standing near me, and talking to me, I'm fine. But through all this, strangely I was not in the least bit homesick.
I think it hit me around day five or six. That's when you've been gone long enough for people to stop making the sympathy calls, and u're pretty much left to entertain yourself. Needless to say, I was at my whiney best for these few days.
Luckily, before I bored myself senseless with the incessant cribbing and whining about how it's so cold, and i'm so far away from everyone, and I'm on top of a hill, and there are bugs in my loo, and an earthworm fell on my head, and someone saw a snake and the classes are a cycle ride away, and i didn't know where to smoke... see how it goes? :) Well, as I was saying, before I went completely mad, I started to find a couple of people along the same wave length as me, and started to have a little fun, and explore some of Pune's watering holes.
Now, I know I came here to study, and that still remains the goal. But when you've sat through one weeks worth of (strenuous) team bonding sessions, followed by one weeks worth of horrifically (like seriously makes you want to try and rip your head off, just to see if you can) dull disaster management sessions, a whole lot of alcohol is in order.
So while I still think of home, and miss some people terribly, my life at college is starting to fall into place one day at a time... Each day's a few more familiar faces, longer conversations in between classes, few more people at my table for dinner and regulars for drinking sessions and smoke breaks..:)
All in all, it's good to be back in college.