Maira Gupta, Grade 11
UWCSEA East Campus
The UWCSEA East Campus is huge. Really huge. The 13.5 acres space is home to a whole plethora of facilities, thousands of faculty members and over 5000 students. Within this, every student has their favourite spot I would believe. It could be a classroom, the music hall, auditorium, canteen, sports hall or whatever else. My favourite place on campus is quite uncommon I would say- it’s less of a ‘place’ and more just a spot.
It is my favourite for all the memories I have spent there, the people I have gotten to know, and how important it is to my everyday school life. This is difficult to describe because it's just like any other spot on campus and still nothing could be as special. It’s the place where we eat lunch, right opposite the canteen and only a few metres away from where the DT lab stairs are. So the obvious question, why do we eat lunch Opposite the canteen and not In the Canteen. Well, it's quite simple, our friend group has 8 people, and finding a table for 8 to sit on, in the heavily crowded canteen was extremely hard. So we just decided to sit on the floor on the opposite end of the canteen. And since then, it's been our only lunch spot.
This is the place that I have built my most found friendships till date, where our most found memories are. I think that because we don't sit on tables and chairs, there is no limit to how many people can sit with us, and as small as this may seem, its had a significant impact. More and more people are able to join our group and these are some of the people that I have spent some beautiful school days with.
I think sometimes it can be hard to build such deep connections with people when they are forced to interact. I think it's important to just let such things happen organically. Every friendship has a different story, a different background, and I think its important to just let it flow the way it is. I sometimes wonder that if I was forced or pushed to interact with my friends before I knew them, through a group project or activity, would I still have been able to be such good friends with them? I think it's more the open setting we were in that allowed us to build those connections. And that's why that lunch spot of ours is very important to me.
This spot is also the one where we have our most candid pictures and funniest moments. Anytime we are walking on the bridge or looking down from the field, and some other students are sitting in our spot during their lunch and snack breaks, we get all defensive about how that is our spot and they stole it! Obviously we don't seriously mean it- all spaces are shared spaces- but my point is that we have been able to build a kind of connection with that place. Stand alone that spot seems so insignificant, yet with the people around, the moments shared, one can make so much out of it. And that is true for everything I would say.
Image Courtesy: https://www.israel21c.org/10-spectacular-photos-of-sunsets-in-israel/
It is my favourite for all the memories I have spent there, the people I have gotten to know, and how important it is to my everyday school life. This is difficult to describe because it's just like any other spot on campus and still nothing could be as special. It’s the place where we eat lunch, right opposite the canteen and only a few metres away from where the DT lab stairs are. So the obvious question, why do we eat lunch Opposite the canteen and not In the Canteen. Well, it's quite simple, our friend group has 8 people, and finding a table for 8 to sit on, in the heavily crowded canteen was extremely hard. So we just decided to sit on the floor on the opposite end of the canteen. And since then, it's been our only lunch spot.
This is the place that I have built my most found friendships till date, where our most found memories are. I think that because we don't sit on tables and chairs, there is no limit to how many people can sit with us, and as small as this may seem, its had a significant impact. More and more people are able to join our group and these are some of the people that I have spent some beautiful school days with.
I think sometimes it can be hard to build such deep connections with people when they are forced to interact. I think it's important to just let such things happen organically. Every friendship has a different story, a different background, and I think its important to just let it flow the way it is. I sometimes wonder that if I was forced or pushed to interact with my friends before I knew them, through a group project or activity, would I still have been able to be such good friends with them? I think it's more the open setting we were in that allowed us to build those connections. And that's why that lunch spot of ours is very important to me.
This spot is also the one where we have our most candid pictures and funniest moments. Anytime we are walking on the bridge or looking down from the field, and some other students are sitting in our spot during their lunch and snack breaks, we get all defensive about how that is our spot and they stole it! Obviously we don't seriously mean it- all spaces are shared spaces- but my point is that we have been able to build a kind of connection with that place. Stand alone that spot seems so insignificant, yet with the people around, the moments shared, one can make so much out of it. And that is true for everything I would say.
Image Courtesy: https://www.israel21c.org/10-spectacular-photos-of-sunsets-in-israel/
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