When life gives you a lesson, pay attention!

I do not know what I was thinking when I decided to take up this course here in the University of Leeds.

I was all very happy about having to live all on my own, cooking my own food and leading my life the way I always wanted to. Little did I know that life had more challenges than I thought it did!

Let's begin with the first few days and my first few visits to the supermarket. After spending my first few hours in my room looking at my desk, cupboard and bathroom I decided to open my suitcase and set stuff. I began with promptly tagging my love letter from my dear friend Megha. Which made me realise I needed some pins to put stuff on the soft-board. I realized that the laptop will soon be dying if I did not manage to get its converter. This led me to my first visit to the closest supermarket called Londis. Londis near Leodis, is that a coincidence? I don't know and I don't care!

So, thus began my search and should I say my poor foresightedness. As I entered the shop I realised it had a lot of stuff that I will need to survive the next few days, so I decide I shall indulge in a little bit of grocery shopping. I picked up bread, milk, juice bottle, pins, garbage bags, some sauce, etc.

As always happens, you always tend to buy the thing you need most...never! I forgot to buy the converter I was looking for and instead bought a lot of stuff I could have done without. Well, to be honest, atleast could have done without it for a few hours!

Which brings me to my most favoured shopping destination - Morrisons. The supermarket which is every students' dream and home! I seriously feel that once all of us leave Leeds we will have to de-morrisonise ourselves in order to live anywhere else in this world!

Anyway, coming back to my shopping spree. My next destination was Morrisons as I declared earlier. I was told to buy some duvet and pillows by our taxi guy and my friend Mej. So I jumped right away when I saw some great deals on bedding, etc. I decided to throw that on my trolley. Next came, actually let's skip ahead because the list of things that I saw and I bought will cross the word limit of any blog ever seen or written in the history of a student life. Ok, am exaggerating but trust me you do not want to hear it, rather read it.

So after I am done with the billing I realize I have a little over 4 bags to carry back, I am tired as hell after a long day, i have not eaten lunch and yeah, saving the best for the last, I have to climb uphill for about 20 mins to reach my destination - Leodis!!

So chindi as I have always been and I take pride in that, I decided to walk. Don't worry, I reached my place in one piece. Albeit, with 7 breaks and thank god for the bottles of mineral water that I bought, which by the way I finished before I could reach home, I survived the drain and also caught the fancy of an Indian couple who smiled seeing me and commented after seeing the big bags and the sweat on my brow when the weather in the city was making others wear three layers, "Indian ho? College student, aaah!! Nice, nice! See you!"

So the biggest lesson that I have learnt since coming to Leeds, never go to Morrisons to buy stuff that you cannot carry back. Two, always take friends along when you go there, so you can always share a cab, share the bag and of course, put your stuff in their bag and take it only when you reach home! ;)

As someone once smartly said, always share your knowledge, it will only multiply, not decrease. So I would Smart Alec'ly tell any random stranger I would meet in my student accommodation or in random international meets to never go to Morrisons alone and definitely not buy more than two bags. Of course, most of the times I would be laughed at, yet I would not buckle down and keep reiterating the fact.

So, coming to why I began writing this blog. Well, one incident that just occurred a few minutes back with me prompted me to write down a few others that happened just to have a good build up and for you to have some sympathy towards me as a first timer.

It all began with me having to wear an old pair of socks today morning for my squash appointment. I could have just finished it at 'in the morning' but I added the squash part to show-off! I was wondering how come I was running out of socks to wear since I assumed I had enough to last me more than three weeks. Little did I know that I had already used up around 9 pairs and if I did not clean them urgently I would have to either buy new pairs or just wear old ones. Which is fine by me, but over the years I have kind of started to feel for the opposite gender and their nasal powers and hence would not dare to do the latter.

So, I decided to wash them along with a few underwear and thus I put them all on the floor in the shower room and switched the shower on. I also put some Ariel washing powder so that it could lather up. I was hoping that the granules would mix with the water and I could just soak them up for a bit and hang them all around the room and wait for them to dry. Which is where in-experience comes in, I did not know that the granules would not mix properly unless and until I put them all in a bucket of water and clothes. So now I have a bathroom with 9 pairs of socks, 5 undies, 3 boxers all half wet, half lathered and no place to have bath!

This is the end of this blog, I can only update you about the situation once I find a solution for it or if one of my followers or readers is kind enough to give me a tip!!!

Thanks for reading, I thoroughly enjoyed writing this piece and hope to write some more interesting ones soon!

Adios.