This is the 6th last Saturday I'll be spending in Grahamstown! Yep - 6 Saturdays from now, I'll be in my very own room at home in East London (pictured above).I can't wait! Or can I?....
As the year draws to an end, I am having such mixed feelings - excitement and nervousness topping the list! I have no idea where the wind will take me when I leave this little village they call Grahamstown. But there are some things I will miss and some things I will be glad to say good bye to!
What I'll miss about this place:
- Calling friends and having them come over for coffee or pizza in 5 minutes or less
- The fact that (nearly) every place here is within a (relatively decent) walking distance
- The amazing and extensively-stocked library
- RES NET (imagine - being connected to the WWW 24/7!)
- Debonairs (pizza place)
- The sunrises & sunsets
- The new Journ building (African Media Matrix)
- The donkeys - which can almost always be seen as you enter/leave the town!
- Going to shower in flip flops
- Communal bathrooms
- People calling/shouting on the intercoms for their friends
- Drunk students on Friday/Saturday nights
- Signing male visitors in and making sure they're out by a certain time
- Being unable to blast my music in the morning (back home, my brother is a DJ - so loud music is kind of mandatory in my house at any time of the day...yay for my cool parents!)
- Eating cereal for supper
- Having to close my curtains everytime I want to change (boys res across the street and my window faces the road)
- Walking up the hill in the heat
won't you miss the independence in G'town when you are back home?
ReplyDeleteMOSILAGER:
ReplyDeleteI'm more than likely to work away from home, so after uni, I'll probably be at home for 4 months (max). But yeah, being on my own for four years makes it really hard to live at home again, know what I mean?!
:)
I'll miss the sound of church bells on a sunday (even though I don't go)
ReplyDeleteAlso - I'll miss the convenience of going out and "stumbling home" - in Jozi there is always the hassle of having to have a designated driver when we go out!!!
I wont miss small town gossip though!
Glad someone else is blogging about leaving soon - got to start dealing with it sometime!
CARLZ:
ReplyDeleteSmall town gossip is something I forgot to add to the list of "Things I won't miss"
:)
hey sheetal... are you running some advertisement thing on your blog? all sorts of weird sites want to set cookies when I visit. Was wondering if you enabled ads, if not it's some add-on that the site has.
ReplyDeletenameste sheetal
ReplyDeleteplace looks divine.wish you great time,looking forward to hear from you on all that you will miss and new discoveries...
cheers,
jhaji.
MOSILAGER:
ReplyDeleteNo, I'm not running any adds - I don't even know how to enable add-ons...lol! I will look into it. Thanks for letting me know :)
SANJAY:
ReplyDeleteNamaste! Thank you for your message. I have been meaning to drop you an email for quite some time now about something I want to discuss with you - I will do it soon, though :)
It's kinda crazy hey? I can't wait to get outto be honest. The hills I have to climb everyday and the 30min walk to the AMM from home and back is a shlep. I practically have to drag myself out of bed everyday. I hardly ever see my friends anyway coz I'm here from 9 to about 6 everyday and I live to far away from my friends. So dunno hey. I'll see what I miss when I'm home. Probably will wish to be back when we're working huh? No bosses here!
ReplyDeleteAh!!Sheetal, I found your blog :) Im going to miss this little village as you call it VERY much. It's become home and I have such amazing friends here... but greener pastures call me! We must chat soon.
ReplyDeleteSPY-KE:
ReplyDeleteLucky for me, the AMM is a stones throw away from where I live :) But I agree with you - we are most likely to miss this place as soon as we start work!
Thanks for visiting my blog :)
VERASHNI:
ReplyDeleteHey girl! You found my humble little online home :) So nice to see a message from you...see you in class tomorrow!
Big hugs
x