A long time ago, in a hostel far far away
It was August 8th, I don't want to mention the year as it was long time ago (:D). A collection of different, faces from different parts of the country had gathered at the institute's building. We were loading our luggage onto the institute's bus. In order to help out I got on the top of the bus and started arranging the luggage. There was this fair guy, from the land of the desert, he handed me his suitcase. I couldn't find space anywhere in the middle, so I put it on one side. At that time I didn't realize that this was going to cost the guy, who incidentally becomes a key character of the last half of our journey, a good old suitcase ( :) ). Another character in our story is from the land of the desert, which deserves a mention here had just got out of an university in another holy land nearby. His father had come to drop him off. His story will be a very interesting one in our journey. We all were packed up and ready, like soldiers geared up and ready to go into battle. The bus drove on, into the unknown (for us). We waited anxiously for our trenches to arrive. We awaited more. We realized we had crossed borders, a river and now we were behind enemy lines. When we finally reached there we realized we were on our own. It was like a war-zone. The construction had just taken place. There were already students there. They were the ones who had come with the higher ranks. They were supposed to be the section 'A'. We were the section 'B'. There was very little interaction, for reasons I can't explain without creating a controversy about our journey. Later as you would see that this section-'B' or section-'Brutes' incidentally would bring out some very talented people, the best ‘anchor’, the best 'drama directors', 'the best dancer', 'the best gamers' and probably called later as the section of 'the best'. But later when the time came to change the course of our journeys, it didn't matter what was the best. What really mattered was that the time that was spend there was the best, even with the extreme conditions of survival, the more than occasional anti-student notices. But anyways, let by-gones be by-gones. Wait up till tomorrow for the most interesting chapter of our journey. 'Da Boot Camp'.

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