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Hostel

Life

SOMESH RAJESH
XI B

Well to begin with, I have nearly completed my first year as a left, which
hosteller, so I would like to share my experience of being a hos- made me
teller and the beginning of my hostel life. a bit sad.
It all started out when my parents casually asked me whether I Then I went to
would like to study in a hostel after my tenth grade, I was surprised my hostel room, met my
why my parents were asking so. At the same time, excited about roommates and started talking to
being in a hostel being independent and living with children of them. Then slowly got familiarized with
the same age group, so I agreed. My parents started searching for most of them. That day passed, the next day was our
a good boarding school. They came to know about Peevees Pub- first school day. We had a small meeting with our Teach-
lic School from one of our family friends. They said it was a good ers, CEO and Vice Principal, We had to introduce ourselves and
school and had all the facilities, so we started searching about the received some advice from them. We had our first assembly and
school. I liked the school and decided to join the school and reg- then went to class to meet our classmates whom we hadn’t met.
istered it. I got admission and my joining date was 13th of June That day got over with introduction of some of our subject teach-
2016. I was very excited to see my new batch mates and friends. ers. Then back in hostel we all were busy talking to each other
When I reached there were many students from different places. of our interests, hobbies etc. The days passed by. There were lot
They had chosen students who had studied abroad to be in the of occasions like Onam celebration, Diwali celebration, School
same room. So I had roommates who were from the UAE. I was excursion etc. We enjoyed a lot even though we were in hostel
excited and sad at the same time. Excited about my new life, but and didn’t have our parents with us. Now within one month we
sad about leaving my family. My uncle and cousins came to drop are going to start our final exams and get to 12th grade and be
me. They took a tour around the school. They were very happy to a super senior student of this school. Hostel life has a lot of fun.
see the good facilities, I was even more happy to see it, then they

MARIYAM VAYALIL
X A

1. The longest word with one vowel is ‘STRENGTHS’.
2. The oldest word is ’TOWN’.
3. The longest one syllable word is ‘SCREECHED’.
4. The only two words that end with-gry are ‘HUNGRY AND ANGRY’.
5. The dot on the letter ‘I’is called a tittle.
6. The most commonly used word in conversation is I’.
7. The shortest word containing all five vowels is ‘ EUNOIA’ which means
‘beautiful thinking’
8. There are only four words that end with –dous: tremendous, stupendous,
hazardous and horrendous.

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