- Life in Your School Hostel
Most of the big and well established school has a hostel attached
to it for the residence of teachers and students, coming from distant places.
Our school also has such a hostel
It consists of a long one-storied building of twenty rooms open on
all sides. One of these rooms is for the superintendent, while the others are
for teachers and student. There is a separate building for the kitchen and the
menials.
We have to live strictly regulated life in the hostel. At five in
the morning rings a bell. We have to get up at once, ease ourselves and wash
our faces. Then comes the morning tiffin which varies day to day. The next
three hours we devote to our studies. Resident teachers go round our rooms to
solve our difficulties. After a little rest, we have our bath and breakfast. And
then we go to our classes. After school we get some substantial tiffin which
also varies every day. The afternoon is devoted to physical exercise of some
sort, often under the supervision of some of our Physical Instructors. On
return to the hostel we first wash ourselves and then sit down at our studies. Our
supper comes at nigh 9.00 pm after which we retire to bed. There are occasional
variations in the program, but the superintendent and other teachers see to it
that we do not indulge in any undesirable activity.
I always felt sick for home for a long time after I had first time
come to the hostel. My heart yearned for the loving touch of my parents and
others and for comforts. I always enjoyed at home, but as time has passed on, I
have begun to feel at home here. There is no want of friendship with all that
it means. We are thirty boarders making up a family with the superintendent as
the head. If anyone falls ill, the hostel doctor comes in and the
fellow-boarders give him all the care and attention he may require.
Hostel life has its advantages too. It gives us habits of
self-help. We have to take care of our personal belongings ourselves, make up
our own beds and under strict control from morning to night. These are the
habits which I am sure will stand me in good stead in my future life.
No comments:
Post a Comment