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Life in a new city- Kolkata

It all started from the day my parents left me here on 6th August 2011 under the supervision of another family, complete strangers to me... Yes, that was my first day in Kolkata!!!! Timid, shy and ignorant I was of the way life goes on over here... Being from an industrial town, little did I know of the decorum of the place. On my way to college, I started observing people, trying to figure out, I knew not what... But that was the best possible thing I could have done, to get acquainted with the city from its people.But my college friends were awesome. Initially I could not walk fast (so got occasional pushes from people behind me) and cross the roads. I mean why did they move in such a hurry????? I could not get up a bus.... I lost my way to the place I stayed....I had an odd dressing sense...I could not prepare my own Maggie... I could not walk carefully without tripping over a thing or two and stamping over mud or dung....and on top of all accepted the family of my landl