memories are only created together

by joy panchal (India)

I didn't expect to find India

This story begins when my study tour took place in my last semester of my bachelor's in zoology. what makes this different is that I got so see different sides of my friends as well as of myself that i didn't know I had. this all took place during 9 days of the trip .I was really excited for this trip and my sole purpose was to make memories because my college life was really boring and only one or two memorable moments . A little something about myself , I am the type of of person that has many talents but cannot Express them because I live in india like I can speak really good Japanese, I can play mid level violin , I like orchestra music , but I have never gotten people with whom I can share my hobbies or even talk so I have never have personal things to share about but this time the trip gave me something that I will always be connected to the people with whom I share it with. so the first two day were uneventful full just some minor details like sleeping in a tent and small talk about stuff among boys because I am still only 20 years old . the third day is when we reached a bird sanctuary when some Japanese researchers were there for bird watching so I just approached them without thinking and talk to for an hour .when I finished the talk all my classmates were excited because some of then knew I can speak Japanese and I would cherish it forever. then we reached Diu where stuff happened. as diu is a union territory drinking was allowed and I had never drank any kind of alcohol before so I was ballsy about trying it even if it was strictly prohibited by our teacher .so during night time I hanged out with my friends who had experience in drinking and when out with them.i ordered a beer and started to drink it but as a noob that my friend told me I had to do a full top to bottom gulp I.e chugging and i did it .it made me tipsy and drank more till drunk . so one of my friends took me back to my room which I shared with 2 other friends who had gone drinking on their own and they also came drunk . at this point it was a disaster to occur and it did occur . me one of my northeastern friend and similar gujju friend we making noises like laughing loudly and talking crap like drunk people . my asian friend had drank too much and he went out of control even slapping us and running around in the room . the noise was clearly heard in other rooms and that's when my asian friend went into bathroom and broke a glass at that time I went completely sober and immediately a teachers came and first lectured us and after that my asian friend threw up one me and collapsed. we did talk about the meaning of life and our goals and how I was the only single one and they wanted me to find someone. when the teacher lectured us the whole class knew that some situation had happened . it took Great efforts to sober up my asian friend till the morning arrived .I was really regretful and we had to pay for cleaning the mess . the best thing about it is that I was not that close with them before but now we are really good friends .I always thought that to make friends I had to please everyone and never hurt anyone but I never made friends like this and now due to this I have 2 good friends so I am really grateful for the trip