"Name ?", Asked the flight official.
"Catherine, Catherine Barry", I replied.
The flight official looked at me and said,
"First time here?"
"Ah! Yes, it's my first time", I replied.
My expressions were so visible to everyone that anyone could read me like a book. I took my luggage and walked through the hallway and exits the airport terminal. There I saw a junction of people waiting for their loved ones. I was excited and nervous at the same time but also upset that I have to leave my family behind in order to achieve my dreams. After leaving the airport I reached the taxi stand and took a taxi. The taxi driver asked me,
"Are you new here miss, I have not seen you here before. Oh! By the way I'm shag, what's your name miss?"
"Oh! I'm Catherine", I replied.
"Oh, then miss Catherine what are you here for?", Asked shag.
"I'm here to study at Oxford University", I replied.
"Ohh, At Oxford, In which department miss?", Asked shag.
"In the Medical Science department", I replied.
"Ohh, Good luck with that miss", said shag.
After we reached the university I got off the taxi and took my luggage and went inside. After walking for a while I saw someone I would rather never meet again in my whole life but there he was talking with some guys. It was none other than Zayn, Zayn Rishab the son of my father's friend who I met 7 years ago. Maybe I was staring at him for too long so he look back at me. Since I felt embarrassed so I left from there to complete my procedures and to see the hostle where I'll be living. After reaching the hostle I met an uncle who is actually the warden of the hostle and he asked me,
"Who are you?"
I told him, "I'm a new student at Oxford and my name is Catherine, Catherine Barry". The warden then said,
"Oh, I'm sorry miss I thought you were an intruder. But since you're miss Catherine Barry you can go inside all the students are already inside. Oh! and my name is Ricky so if you ever need any help please do tell me"
"Oh sure, then I'll be going inside Uncle Ricky", I replied.
After entering the hostle it looked more like a house rather than a hostle after walking up the stairs I heard talking sounds of someone so I went to check them and saw four girls in one room talking and laughing with each other. One them noticed me and brought me inside the room so now all the attention of the four girls was on me and I did not know how to talk with them, at that time one the girl sitting beside me asked me,
"What's your name? My name is Flora, Flora Benson"
"My name is Catherine, Catherine Barry", I replied.
After that the girl sitting on my other side said,
"My name is Lucy, Lucy Frostblade and this is my childhood friend Scarlett, Scarlett John"
"Hi!", Said Scarlett joyfully.
After that the girl laying beside Scarlett said lazily,
"Hi, I'm Sophie, Sophie Lavanta".
I asked them in which department are they and they all said that they are in the Medical Science department how amazing and we even have the same courses. I became friends with them all but Flora is my best friend as our minds and our styles are alike. After that Scarlett's stomach started to growl so we went to eat out in celebration of our first day at Oxford. We told Uncle Ricky that we're going to be back late as we are going out to eat.
After leaving the hostle we went into small restaurant that felt comfortable for us and ordered the food as Scarlett's stomach was still growling. After ordering the food we started talking and asking each other about from where we were from. I said,
"I'm from Venice in Italy".
Flora said she's from Belgium in Western Europe. While Scarlett and Lucy said they are from Washington DC in US. Sophie said that she's from Wellington. So I asked Sophie,
"If you're from Wellington why are you staying in the hostle are your parents not living with you".
Sophie than said,
"No, it's not like that. I'm not staying in the hostle. I just come to have fun and relax after the courses or if I'm bored or want to sleep.If I get tired I just sleep in the hostle rather than going back to my home"
"Ohh, I see", I said.
After talking about some other things like what's our favorite color, food, song, our ideal type. We stopped talking as our food came and we started to eat after eating we left the restaurant and started walking back to the hostle. After walking the path for a while I saw Zayn with some guys and other girls trying to flirt with him. I just looked for a while and was about to walk away Zayn stopped me and started talking about how it's been a while since we saw each other and that he missed me or something at that I felt so cringed as we never talked that much with each other. I told him,
"Yes, It's been a while since we have seen each other Zayn but since I'm out with my friends and we need to go back I'll be leaving".
At that Zayn tried to stop me by grabbing my hand but Sophie and Lucy stopped him by standing infront of me while Scarlett and Flora stood beside me. At that Zayn backed off and said Goodbye to me and went back to his friends. While walking they asked me about Zayn and I told them that he was the son of my father's friend. After that we took different paths as Sophie went to her home and me, Scarlett, Lucy and Flora went back to the hostle. After reaching the hostle we each chosed our rooms to share with. Me and Scarlett were in one room. Lucy and Flora were in another room. I was hoping to get a room with Flora but I lost the rock, paper, scissors game so now my roommate is Scarlett. She's not a bad girl or anything she just talks a lot and I mean a lot.
"Hey cat let me tell you something", said Scarlett.
Ah I should go to sleep before she starts telling me a long never ending story. I acted as I was sleeping and when Scarlett saw me sleeping she stopped talking and said goodnight and went to sleep. I opened my eyes and went to to look if she was actually sleeping or acting to sleep like me but Scarlett was actually sleeping after watching this I also went back to bed and thought that I might not be able to sleep as it was not my bed at back home but when I closed my eyes for just a few minutes I fell asleep.