Wet Dedication!

Okay. first of all...no funny ideas upon reading the title! It's simply the literal description of an experience, which I and my friends had to go through today.

Have you ever given a thought as to how dedicated are you towards education and knowledge? I mean, we all stay up and study late at night, but thats on the eve of the exams. I am also not talking about certain people's abilities to go home, sincerely go through whatever shit they have been taught on that day, and come prepared the next day for more shit! They are not normal, but I am talking about people who enjoy life, have fun with friends, go on dates and stuff and most importantly, come back home and sit down for a brief interaction with books, just to be in touch! Honestly, I am talking about people like me! :D But coming back to the topic, what will you answer if asked that what is the extent that you will go to for education, which may be in or out of your course, or something that may be important to you just for the inclination factor? Well, for us, we got our answer today!

RKM Institute of Languages is a well known institute among people who like to do communicative language courses. Today, a bunch of us planned to get admission into the Spanish classes. Maybe to nurture our literal needs or simply to watch and understand Kites and Ricky Martin's songs, but whatever be the bloody reason, we opted to go and get the education! So we all reach our destination at 7 am in the morning, just to stand ahead of the line, and all we find is an irritating downpour!

Okay, let me tell you at this moment that for quite some days, Kolkata was not at all receiving its share of rains the way it does. So we were a bit sure that the morning sky will be cloudy, but will not pee down! But it seems THAKUR RAMKRISHNA had his own way of greeting us by sending this awesome and soothing, yet irritating rain for two whole hours!!! I mean it was as though the clouds were simply waiting for us people to gather and get drenched! The worry was not our clothes and shoes (and hair for one particular friend :D), but it was the documents were carrying in our bags!

So we try and nudge each other around, gathering in pairs under the umbrellas. But then the rain intensity saturates to such a level, that we were forced to bunk our envied line positions and seek covers. Now let me tell you, the institution security people are very generous. They thought that instead of letting us people in, it will be better to get wet and "clean" ourselves before entering this pious domain! As if we came directly from our beds!! But still, their dedication was to be praised by the institution and cursed by us! But all the very same, we seek another refuge, get bored and decide to nurture our raging belly's and end up freezing and squandering in a nearby cafe! We come back again to the line, only to find the rain more intense and the crowd more furious!

But whatever we did, we did not sway from our thirst of Spanish knowledge! We stayed there, dripping from head to toe in the rain, but we didn't move! Next the gates finally opened. I thought of organizing a stampede and running those generous guards over, but I guess we were too happy to go in than to do anything of that sort. So we complete our admission procedure, with just one more bump in the road and it was the non-acceptance of the much scammed Rs. 500 noted by the officials. So the search for change started, and it was really funny to see 70 odd people do it, simultaneously, in their own manner. But we finally overcome this factor and we get admitted into the Spanish Batch! Out we come of the institute and voila! The rains gone! :D

All I want to share in this section is that have you ever seen such instances when you are forced to prove your dedication for the love and lust (:P) for education? If not, I guess we are indeed lucky! Even though we feel terrible of the entire thought, but hey, we did it no. So go ahead! Face the worst hurdles and prove this point! Show your devotion and dedication towards education! Just see to it that if you sense it is gonna be a "wet" one, don't repeat my mistake, simply wear slippers and take an umbrella!