In fact I like rain very much. But after coming to this place i hate it most. I've been here since July. When I came here, it was too hot that i felt like taking bath twice or thrice a day although it was a great threat to my hair(the water quality is so good that many of my friends here managed to take bath once in a week).
Now we will come to our topic of discussion-rain. I go to class by bicycle. I don't have the guts to cycle with umbrella in one hand. So whenever there is rain I used to enjoy it(as there is no other option) to be in time for the lectures. And there were situations where i had to wash three clothes per day. But these are all minor issues which need not be given much consideration.
But yesterday it was entirely different. I woke up at around eight(too early for saturday). Since then it was raining heavily(don't know when did it start). Unlike my earlier hostel where we had rooms facing each other, here we have rooms facing courtyard. By the time I went for dinner there was about one inch water in the corridor. And along with the rain winds were bolwing very badly. I could hear the asbestos sheet making sound from the top of the water tank.
I called my home once or twice to make them aware of the situation. Earlier we had thought of going to a flute concert at 7.00 pm by an illustrious person. But I was not feeling like going out in such a bad weather. I rushed to my friend's room and she also had the same opinion.But those who went for it told me that we've missed a great event.
At around 7.40 my friend came to my room and asked me whether I had my dinner. The floor was full of water (about 1mm; although i dont have a clearcut idea of the measurement of rainfall intensity, for me this information suffices). We went to mess hall with our umbrella(its inside the hostel!) choosing a direction after considering the direction rain(and/or wind ). When we reached our mess hall we were fully drenched. We placed our umbrellas on a table and took our plates. By the time we started eating the power had gone. It was complete darkness till somebody lit a candle. In the darkness somebody came near us and searched for her pickle jar kept on the table and she was speaking something in some language assuming that we are her friends. We started laughing and spoke in our language. When power came she explained us that her friends were sitting there before we came in.
I latched my room and switched off my fan to keep myself warm. In the morning when I woke up, it has stopped raining but wind was blowing heavily. My roommate told me that so many trees fell down yesterday. I was in a dilemma whether to go to church or not. At last I thought of going in an auto from main gate after getting 100 moneys from atm. Then i asked the security at the main gate whether there are some blocks in the road to the railway station. He replied in hindi from which i could understand that there is no problem ahead.
It was already late and i rushed to the church with my Miss India. The road was very clean after such a great shower but at some slopy areas i had to dash through the ponds. It was a great experience that i could feel water reaching my face. The mass has just started when I reached.
During the mass I was looking outside to see if there are some signs of rain in which case my return would become a challenge. Anyway it was not raining when the mass ended but the wind was very strong. So I hurried to the cycle stand got my cycle and started off. After my first turn the road is really narrow. So I thought of going by the edge of the road for safety reasons. As i was moving, i could hear the horn of a mini van like thing. And i when it passed me i found that that was not a mini van but something of the sort of army truck. I was shocked i fell down from my cycle onto the road!
By God's grace nothing happened to me except that some of my muscles are paining when I'm writing this. But the basket of my cycle has changed its orientation by some 45 degrees. By the time I came back it was raining, not heavily though. And now it seems that this place is not the one I've seen yesterday. Don't know what it will be like tomorrow.
