A seed would not sprout out from the
loam in a sudden just after burying it to the ground. It takes time. Like
in just falling and living
in to places which are new and quite different to your senses, it takes time (okay, repetitive) to cope up with the new environment. An instance, is when you move from a barrio, you used to spend most of your being, to a city for growing better, for your study’s sake. Studying in college far from your dwelling, in other words, is the
oftenest case, I
bel
To the freshmen and those who still suffer and are still irritated, I just wrote to share some ways on how to deal with and survive on the not-used-to-live-with urban life. Since it’s actually not easy to catch up for a new life to a new place, I hope this would guide you.
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Here in Tuguegarao, I know that many of you who are not suntanned are not only being so but also starting to heat up and dry their skin, produce falls of sweat after, and will soon be afraid of going out of your huge shell under the scorch.
#1. Know City Life. Since it’s your let’s say ‘responsibility’ to go and study to institutions which are usually distant from your own place, you should know the spot where you are residing upon. Here, you should be very much familiar to the city’s atmosphere,
surrounding, people, practice, etc.
Tagged as the Hottest City in the country, Tuguegarao’s temperature usually ascents at 37° to 40° Celsius where heat often makes everyone wear sleeveless shirts, rush to thirst-quenching-selling stores, or have a whole night and day date with electric fans. It would be a lot better for you to bring your umbrella, fans, and others that may not make you feel fresh but would somehow make you comfortable.
Also, drink a plenty of clean water regularly to avoid dehydration.
It is Tuguegarao. Daily frictions on roads with vehicles’, mainly
tricycles’ wheels, are present. Even pollution, my apology to city’s authority, is there and it rubs your senses the irksome way. Honestly, you cannot avoid all of these especially when you are fond of shopping and hanging-out in the city. All you just have to do is to be prepared at all times with your medicine—pain and stress relievers (and just go out if really necessary).
All right, too long. Tuguegarao is a very hot city with many establishments and places to go
with, lots of tricycles (watch out for capacity fares) making “broom broom” around, students are everywhere, and numerous non-city dwellers are present. Be really careful. Ok, enough.
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There’s no place like home.
#2. Look for Boarding ‘Home’. When I was still a freshman to the first semester of my second year in college, I have been moving from one boarding house to another. So unsteady. It is because the first boarding house I have resided was too tight. It has plenty of occupants. The second was, well I have no problem about that. It’s just that the owner had brought her family there so we should look for another house to stay in. The third was oh too far from the school. I have to spend 30-37php everyday for the tricycle fare. Now? I’ve learned.
Lessons:
o Better
seek for boarding houses which suit your taste and senses, comfortable, and make you feel like you did not leave your own home. (It could avoid repentance later on. Also homesickness.)
o Be sure that your landlords are good. Your observations would know that. You should also be sure that your stay there would be stable so that you would not encounter financial dilemmas afterwards in searching for another.
o Find Boarding houses or apartments which are near or have a walking distance from school. It saves your allowance, unless you’re rich.
o Also, you should take care of your things. I do have several important things that have been stolen by people I know yet not. Beware.
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#3. Handle Money with Care. Just be thrifty. Spend money if necessary, again, unless you’re rich.
Keep your money away from moochers’ eyes and reach. Yet, you wouldn’t know. Just don’t trust others easily.
Learn from my carelessness.
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#4. Befriend.
Homesickness- experienced during the first stays.
Boredom- felt when you know no one.
Clumsiness- when you are not used to do something.
HBC- when you don’t have friends.
Friends are the ones who’ll let
your HBC away. How?
o Your first place to stay in is your boarding house. Therefore, your first company is your board mates. Befriending them would lessen your homesickness for of course they would make you feel ‘at home’.
o Boredom strikes when nothingness strikes too. Hanging-out and window shopping
is a great help. If d
one with friends, it goes much better! Friends, therefore, are the ones who fill in one’s nothingness.
Showered with boiling cooking oil, or even with detergent-bubbled water, so clumsy. The feeling is awkward because it is not the usual for most. And, is just done by yourself only. Friends/board mates are there to help. Be nice, be friendly. Don’t hesitate to ask for help. Or, if born hesitated, then let yourself be used of doing such chores as early as now. You can’t most of the time hire a helper. Also, your family is out. N
o one to depend on.
