Nisshobdo Rati

Checking-in took only 15 min and she was shown her room on 5th floor which was still getting painted. Temporarily, she was allocated a room in 4th floor. The house master was a old, strong, tall German guy who helped her with the second luggage. She finally settled in her room and rested from the awful brown hill shoes that were torturing her for last 19hours, ever since she was aboard them!

She had some time to reflect to last 24 hours. The rush to reach airport in time, not being able to say good bye to mom and him.. the second slot of 6 hours were basically weeping and sleeping and weeping in sandwich manner. Her usual bad luck of getting uncomfortable sitting position didn’t fail her to launch her a seat in-between two humongous  guys. Well, she hardly paid any attention to them and continued to weep during the entire flight.

Not listening to what he was saying, and rather pissed off, she issued an unprintable adjective in her mind, addressing the driver of bus 103.  ‘This bus would not go to Palmenwaldstrasse stoppage, you would have to take this road and after 40 meters, walk to the street to your right.. bla bla…’ She stepped out of the bus.

She has to carry two luggages with cumulative weight of 35kg, which is only 10kg lighter than her own weight. For next few minutes she badly wished she was an ant with the capability to carry greater weight than their own body. But Nature doesn’t respond to mere cry of help of a distressed  foreign student, definitely not where the bus just dropped her. Another installation of unprintable adjectives came across her thought. She was not in her best gracious mood. Stepping on her traditional pant type paijama, she dragged her suitcases towards the pointed direction.

The next worst thing that would make this day perfect was to find the Whonheim office closed! So she tried to walk a bit faster, which resulted in rather futile effort. She crossed the rotten, sun burnt, wooden fenced parking lot of Mercedes-Benz and moved on to the huge brutal grass patch which was really trying its best to slow her down. After asking 2 people ( thank God!) finally the expected building was insight!