After receiving the book from Maxwell sir, I went to my hostel with great joy in my heart and found that my roommate Martha Elizabeth lying on her bed.
She is from Bristol. She also is studying at Oxford university for her PhD on sculpture. Necessarily, day by day I developed a deep relationship with her.
We are both from different cultures and different environment But she is very curious to know about my country and our culture.
She often talks about my country and its history. Martha is four years older than me. She is 28 years running now .
Martha looks very beautiful , tall , fair and big hazel eyes and golden hair . Martha's smile is very charming if I were a boy I would have fallen in love with her .
Our hostel is called Holy cross St Mary Accommodation . and our hostel is about a thirty minute walk from Oxford University.
Our hostel is the largest and most spacious than all the hostels in Oxford, with a total of 50 servants and a total of 400 girls student.
Because our hostel is very expensive. Our hostel is a three-story rectangular building surrounded by green lawns with small and large flower gardens.
Five hundred years ago, this was the palace of a manor.
So the localsare calling it as a manor house. This manor house is situated on about 100 acres of land.
This manor house currently has a total of 16 flower gardens, small and big in size . Each flower garden is decorated with different types of flowers, statues and fountains.
There are girls from different countries and cultures in our hostel. And there are some rules in this hostel for the accommodate girls.
We have to follow the rules all the time, but the rules are not like the hostels in our country.
Girls can come and go in this hostel 24 hours. There are no restrictions for outside.
Among the rules that follow are to go to the dining room on time and to be told to close the meal on the day one eats out, to wake up at 6 am and do exercise, to pluck no flowers from the garden .
And to be aware to keep the hostel neat and clean in any way. And all kinds of bills must be paid on time.
For exercise, there is a big green lawn inside the hostel. And there is a lake behind and outside of the hostel area.
Many people from different places to go to exercise on the side of that lake.
The hostel has a big main gate , from the hostel building to go that main gate there is a path way made of stone slabs with rows of pine trees and lamp posts on both sides of that path way .
It takes about six minutes to walk from the main building to the main gate. Next to the gate is a four-story high tower made of granite stone.
The gardens of the hostel are decorated with thousands of flowers. Each flower garden has a large water fountain and twelve female idols of marble.
Each female idol holds a sphere bulb on both hands.
Actually the white colored spheres bulb are decoratiing lights which are lit after dusk then the flower gardens sparkle with lights.
Opposite the hostel building has another small building too , it is next to the main gate which is usually used for various types of festivals , conferences and as a guest house .
The dining room of our hostel is on the ground floor.
Now , It's late February so a mild winter is blowing over England. Martha and I both are sitting our room.
Although Martha and I are from different backgrounds, but we both have a lot in common by our nature .
All the rooms in this hostel are as big as ours. Our room has two king size beds at either end, a 6-piece wardrobe, two large study tables and a dressing table, two couches with leather covers and a large bookshelf.
Our room has three huge windows and a bathroom with an attached bathtub. And washroom too .
The floor of the whole building of the hostel is mosaiced with white marble.
The whole hostel is neat and clean and there are about 21 people to maintain it. Our room has a small fridge and an electric kettle too.
Any time we can hot water , tea or coffee is provided for drinks . our room is on the second floor at the very end of the first row of all rooms .
Opening the huge windows of our room we can see the lake outside from the hostel area .
The lake is very beautiful there is a row of cherry blossom trees along the edge of the lake .
In the spring, the petals of the cherry blossoms fall and pink flowers are bloom.
Now spring is almost coming, so the entire lake is covered with pink cherry blossoms. Due to the wind, the cherry blossoms fall and the road of the asphalt on the lake side is also got pink .
From a distance, it looks like the road is covered with a pink carpet. Beneath each cherry tree there are white marble benches .
The edges of the benches are filled with girls Sometimes old men and old women are seen making love , by their behavior sometimes seems the oldies are more passionate than teenage lovers .
Now, Martha and I open the window Sitting on two couches , today I made tea because Martha loves my handmade tea .
My tea made with ginger , bay leaves and milk, Martha had never had before in her life. When first time I made this tea, Martha almost went crazy with the aroma of that tea.
I am sitting along Martha and enjoying the beauty of the lake view of the outside , suddenly Martha asked me, Hey Kuhon, why are you looking so happy today ?
Martha has learned some Bengali from me why she sometimes tries to please me by speaking in Bengali even though she has learned very little.
But Martha asked me with an almost clear Bengali accent. I was surprised to hear her clear Bengali accent and asked how you can pronounce Bengali so beautifully ?
She replied : I am learning to speak Bengali from online . Hearing Martha's speech, I was quite surprised to see her so much interest and passion for the Bengali language.
I looked at her with surprised eyes for a while, seeing my surprised eyes, Martha again said in clear and pure Bengali accents, are you surprised?
I was again surprised to hear his pure Bengali accent.
She told me ,do you know Kuhon why I am learning Bengali language ?
When I came to know that the Bengali people sacrificed their lives to protect their mother tongue, this language drew me to life.
I have read a bit about the history of your language, risking life for the language and at the cost of how many lives to save the language, the Bengali nation has taken away their mother's language by exchange for blood.
The Bangla Such a precious language , None other languages can be found in the world, so I am just blessed to learn Bengali language.
After hearing these words from Martha, my heart was filled for my Mother Land. Seeing Martha's compassion and interest towards my country and my language, my eyes almost wet, now I feel like hugging Martha and shedding some tears for my country.
But I also know that Europeans don't like to cry in public so instead of crying I thanked Martha with a smile for showing so much respect to my country and language. I also told her the reason why I was so happy today ?