#2 A new life- Her first day on Campus

Date of publishing: 7- 11- 2021
Time:11:00 pm

The following day she woke up early, continued the room arrangement from where she stopped. When she finished, she dressed up and went to lecture...

This was where I stopped yesterday in the story of Eniola, a new University student with a new life.

...Continuation

On getting to the lecture room, she started looking around in search of Dorcas. She was the first coursemate Eniola knew. She has only been chatting with Dorcas on Social media right before resumption. When the University dropped the admission list, Dorcas took Eniola's name, searched for it on Facebook, and beeped her. That was how they became friends.

She couldn't find Dorcas during the lecture because the lecture hall was too crowded. Immediately the lecture ended, she called Dorcas and ask where she was

The conversation goes thus;

Eniola: Hello Dorcas

Dorcas: Hi Enny!

Eniola: where are you?

Dorcas: I'm just coming out of MAT 111 lecture.

Eniola: Same here. I'm outside the lecture room, standing under the tree shade.

Dorcas: ok, I'm coming

Eniola: Alright, I'm putting on a pink cloth.

Dorcas: ok

While on the phone, Dorcas could see Eniola from afar. She got to her place, they both hugged each other. They gisted for a while, telling themselves how happy they are to finally resume and see each other. From there they both went to the next lecture together. Throughout that day, they did all things together. They sat down together and in all the lectures they had that day. They even went to the restaurant to eat together.

They finished the last lecture for the day around 3:00 pm. After that, they went to the admission office for Registration. By the time they got there, they met a lot of students there already in a queue. They joined the queue. An hour later, they closed the registration for that day. Meanwhile, Eniola and Dorcas were still in the queue.

Why would they stop the registration? "Dorcas said". The registration was meant to close by 5:00 pm. The students murmured as they left the queue.

Eniola and Dorcas were already tired. "it seems this is where we will separate paths for today, I'm going to my hostel" "Dorcas said to Eniola"

Eniola: Which hostel were you allocated to?

Dorcas: Marere, you?

Eniola: Really? I'm also in Marere

Dorcas: wow! then let's go to the hostel together

(The two friends smiled. They took a taxi to their hostel)

When they got to their hostel, they got to the hostel. Coincidentally, their rooms were both on the second floor, not just on the same floor, also beside each other. Due to the COVID-19 safety protocol, the school allocated two students to each room. Dorcas' roommate has just brought a few of her loads and has gone back home, while Eniola's roommate hasn't been in school yet. So both of them were yet to know who their roommate was.

They both were speechless when they realized their rooms are beside each other. How come? (this was the thought on their minds). They both laughed because they knew truly they were destined to be friends.

Truly they were destined to be friends, because how come it was Eniola's DM Dorcas went to? How come they both offer the same course? How come they both stay in the same hostel? How come their rooms were beside each other?

They went into their separate rooms. They didn't even bid themselves goodbye, knowing fully well they would still see each other for the rest of the day.

As soon as Eniola entered her room, she called her dad and told him how stressful the day was. She has never passed through such stress in her life. Immediately she hung up the call, she dozed off.

It was the Knock on her door that woke her up.

Knock! Knock!! Knock!!!

Who is that? "She said"

Enny It's me, Dorcas

Oh! I'm coming.

Meanwhile, the whole time Eniola was sleeping, Dorcas was busy cooking for the night. She made Rice and stew for both herself and Enny.

She entered Eniola's room with two plates of rice, one for herself, one for Eniola. Eniola was very happy and said, "thank you very much". One thing Eniola doesn't like doing is cooking. At home, she doesn't cook, her mum does the cooking at home. She only goes to stay with her mum in the kitchen sometimes, and most times she was either forced by her dad or she was very hungry.

While eating, the following conversation took place

Eniola: Thanks for this food o

Dorcas: what are friends for?

Eniola: I don't like cooking

Dorcas: Lol. you don't like cooking? With all these foodstuffs I'm seeing in your room. If you don't like cooking why did you bring a bag of rice and beans. Isn't it too much?

Eniola: My dad bought them for me, they believe as I'm now in University, I'll surely learn how to cook.

Dorcas: That's true though, No one likes cooking, but we have to, won't we eat? Don't worry, you will like cooking by fire by force

( They both laughed as they continued their food)

After finishing their food, the two friends talked about other classmates and how they were going to complete the registration they didn't do that day.

Since your roommate is not around, why don't you sleep here tonight? So we can keep each other's company "Eniola said"

Ok. Dorcas went into her room, put on her nightwear, came back into Enny's room, and lights out.

To be continued...

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