The period I got accepted into the university was the best time of my life, everything about me changed, I was so excited having imagined what my life was going to be like in school, you see my father had asked me what I wanted him to buy for me when I passed all my exams and gained admission to the university and my simple request then was a power bike, I love the power bike so much then that It was the only thing I wanted, I had thought of how I was going to be riding my power bike to the school, and around school, picking up girls to parties and for road trips that I never thought of how stupid my request was, I was barely 16 and all I knew how to ride was a bicycle. Maybe if I had asked for an electric bicycle, rather than a power bike, I would have gotten it. But it’s been a few years since school, and my dad and I have never spoken about it.
My vision about school then was not a place I will go to learn in classes, yes classes was part of it but the out door activities surpassed the classroom activities, in my head, I was going to party hard every night and live the time of my life during that period, it was about the clothes I will buy, the food I will eat, mostly it was about how free I will be to choose what I wanted to eat, when I wanted to, having no one to decide for me about that. I had imagined living off campus, with my girlfriend visiting me on weekends, just the two of us. I had imagined living in a very comfortable apartment, with everything I needed, so my stay would be as comfortable as it could ever be.
All these were short-lived when it was time to resume school. My father's friend lived close to the school which forced me to stay at his place during my registration and the process of looking for where to stay, since my dad had promised me a power bike, I felt like he was going to get me the most comfortable and safe place that I could keep the power bike safe, but few days into the registration, my father had me meet another friend of his who was working at the university to get me a space at the school hostel, it was a disappointing news because I never imagined that I was going to be living at the school dormitory during my time at school. Since there were no rooms available at the time, I had to stay in a hall that housed legal occupants, legal squatters and also some illegal squatters. School became boring even before I had gone deep into my first semester. This made me look forward to finishing school and starting the next phase of my life.
Although school turned out to be fun in the end, I met a few friends who became like brothers to me. We did everything together, had those friends we went to class together with for lectures, those we went for studies together in the library and at the halls at night, those we went to parties with, those we had our little secret adventures of trying everything for the fun of it and also the experience.
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