Hostel Life - the best life!

A hostel is a youngster’s heaven. If I were to use one word to define what living in a hostel feels like, it would be ‘freedom’ – unreserved, utterly blissful freedom.

Have you always wanted to run away from the “madness” of home or maybe just want to be on your own and live life the way you wanted to? Well, I was never one of those but living in the hostel has taught me more than I have learnt in the classroom and there are some things only living away from home can teach you.

Each and every hostel has a bunch of people who become famous in no time. Everyone loves them and wants to hang out with them. If you want to be one of them, you need to be an ‘extrovert’. Waiting for others to come and talk to you doesn’t work in a hostel!

You will begin to see a whole different reason why the dining hall in any hostel is called a ‘mess’. From sloppy bland vegetable to barely-there sweets, the food in the mess will make you crave and even the simple dal-chawal of home seem like a feast. No matter how great is your hostel mess, it can never replace that taste of your mother’s hands. 

Keeping a notebook and dividing the group expenses equally among friends works well for everyone. Apart from ensuring a healthy relation among friends, it also keeps a check on the money spending spree!

The good thing about hostels is that you have to live with all kinds of people and if you learn to make the right choices, you will be respected for who you are and will share bonds that will last a lifetime. Loud music, hearty laughs, heated arguments followed by  endless bonding are part of just another average day in life of a hosteler.

Hostels are mostly living together with two or more people and sharing common amenities with your roomies is a must. Similarly, washroom is one among those common facilities which you need to share with roommates or with people in the same floor. The days begin with long queues outside each washroom. Sometimes, there might be water shortage also. Using washroom in hostel according to our convenience is actually a big deal!