College Chronicles --- Part - 4

When I was in class eleven and twelve , I had the pleasure of experiencing  five different campus environments in two years. My first stay was about twenty miles from town , serene environment and also had a hostel kind of feel associated to it. My stay there was for a month and was shifted to a place which was in out skirts of town . This place was a colony and residents were not just students. It was a pleasant change for reasons pretty much obvious . My time in this place was even less and had to shift my base again to campus which was in heart of town. The only advantage being its accessibility to hotels. This stop in my journey was for about six months before we moved on to a place which had a country side feel to it. Here we spent around seven months and we really had a blast. 


Our next campus was about fifteen miles from town , in a village. It had a proper campus feel to it and had acres of greenery to supplement its wonderful atmosphere. There were two temples nearby. One was on top of hill outside our campus and the other just beside , which can be seen for my room. Evenings were pleasant at times , with cool breeze and gentle music from temple ,  relieving you of  stress and pressure of college life. There goes a saying that old habits are hard to change. On our way to college , we observed small stalls on road side where food was available. One fine day we tasted the food when we were given permission to go to town for bringing necessary things. The urge to go out and eat was difficult to contain. We had two options . Either take a walk to office , fill out a form , take permission from in charge and go out . Just jump the wall and explore the world outside . Found the latter option easy to implement. This activity which started as an occasional one was now pretty much regular. Me and a friend also were pretty regular visitors to the nearby temple. Generally we used our highway , jumping the wall . On certain special occasions we followed the formalities . We preferred our highway as it was just a matter of five minutes walk from our room. One evening after some discussion we decided on using our highway. My friend jumped and I was about to. I heard my friend say some thing. I was in no mood to listen and climbed it. When I was about to jump , saw campus in charge seated in temple along with the priest. He was the one who used to wake us up every morning as he very well knew that we didn't care our warden. Now I could make out what my friend was trying to say. I was about to jump back into campus , but stopped on directions from in charge. When we went to temple , he started his lecture involving the priest in between . He was praising us at times. When we started to relax , he started scolding us. He was mixing in every thing he could think of and we were in utter confusion and couldn't come to a conclusion of what he tried  communicating to us. We were given a lecture for about thirty to forty five minutes.  On the first break he took , we seized on he opportunity and asked him that we will leave and we had to study. He could understand the cynicism in our voice and class extended another ten minutes. We finally left , taking offering of god from him. We jumped back into campus. We burst out into laughter and were in tears , for not all tears are an evil.