Going away

Well it has been a age since I last wrote something sensible on the blog, but I think the wait to write something has been worth it. Tomorrow I am leaving for IIT Kharagpur. It has been a dream of many to be in IIT so was mine and in few days time it will be a reality.
It seems nostalgic to leave my home city Lucknow for at least four years straight. My whole family, friends from the time I was child, the fond memories of school are all left behind. It were the last two years in school that I enjoyed the most. That all moments still linger in my mind and I dont think that theses days of school will ever go in oblivion. Though I have never bunked classes except once but still I have had the experience of bunking at least once even if it was for a period or two. The teachers especially Laaj Ma'm were so friendly with us that we didnt even miss a part of our enjoyment in the school.
But now everything of school is past. Now the college life awaits me. New friends, new atmosphere especially that of in IIT, tough competition that I had never faced in my school life and most of all new and great friends who will be there with me for my whole life......be it in IIT or the life after it. The wait has been worth. There are still inhibitions - how will be the first day in the institute; how will I be able to live in the Hostel; how will be the food and will there be ragging and how will it be done. But leaving all this behind I feel very excited to enter there.
It will be a Home away from Home for me and I have to spend the next four years there so I think adjustment will be must. Its the trouble which I think everyone faces......whether to be happy to get such an institute or be sad to leave the dear and loved ones behind. It still feels awkward to be away from home and to know that I will be meeting Amma and Papa and Saumya(my sis) only once in 5 or 6 months, but all is part and parcel of the game.
Now I think it has been enough. I will keep publishing on the blog from there too. wish me luck all of you you who read this - 'to do well'.
Goodbye .......will meet you all soon in the next post.