Heading Home (:D)

A trip to Rishikesh, sleepless nights, two sessional exams, seventy-something attendance, several presentations, politics, more sleepless nights, skipped breakfasts, one really bad Accounts paper and seven other average-ish papers and yet more sleepless nights, the New Year celebrations in the middle of exams, fights, 6pm chai time, walk after dinner in the freezing cold, and yet fucking more sleepless nights, the sem finally bids adieu.

Our college has been extremely generous to us in granting us a weeks’ leave; “the next sem is of a very short duration”, they say while describing our schedule from January to May. They will place us in some company for our summer internships, we’ll have some of the most important subjects of the course (Financial management and Electricity regulations just to name a few); the next sem is expected to be just as eventful if not more.

Well, I’ll leave it for after my holidays to worry about the next sem and as I head to Mumbai I’d rather spend my time in transit thinking about how to make my next week more fun. I am in the train, trying to pass my time, almost about to reach Mumbai and these are probably the most difficult 16 hours that I spent in the last 6 months if you exclude the 32 hours I spent in the train the last time I travelled to and from Mumbai. My back hurts now just like all other occasions when I assume acrobatic shapes while trying to fit myself on these berths. I am sharing the cabin with a peaceful couple(peaceful is a nice adjective for couples I think) and their 2 year old baby boy who has already learned to say mama (delhi girl working in Mumbai), papa (delhi boy working as a marketing manager for ET NOW in Mumbai), dudu, chappal and chai and another delhi guy, civil engineer, who is on his way to join SPJIMS for a 11 month exec. MBA program.

I write this hoping to make the most of my time spent in helplessness of being on the way and in desperation of not trying to think about my journey back. To make it more pleasant for me, I’ll have a good friends’ company then. Whew! That’s such a relieving thought even if they can’t do anything about my backache.

I am still half an hour away from my destination but I guess I’ll conclude. Lets see how this vacation turns out. I’ll worry about the new sem later. My train has just passed Virar. Now I am more interested to peep out of the window, see how much my city changed over the last few months that I have been away, if at all. MY city.