Duke of Gloucester Hostel
For the starting seven months of his Form 1, Sobhag stayed at Duke of Gloucester Hostel. The senior students from (Form 5 to 6) were more in numbers staying in the hostel.
Normally the day at the hostel used to start with breakfast in the diner room, students used to get ready in their uniforms and gather for their prayers before their breakfast. The breakfast was usually porridge or corn flakes cereal. For Sobhag, he was used to eating his mom made parathas and chapatis for breakfast and that was not available in the hostel. Their lunch was also served in the diner room, it consisted of curry and rice. Sobhag struggled with his change of diet, as for lunch he was used with daal and rice. Hence, during the 1st term’s holidays, he learnt to make daal and taught the recipe to their canteen chef.
The school always taught them to obey and respect their seniors. The seniors on the other side in the hostel took benefits. For the newcomers, they used to drown them in the swimming pool and call it as they are trying to make them strong. They would put chillies in the food and the newcomer had to forcefully eat all the food served in his plate as the canteen had a strict rule of no wastage. The seniors also made the newcomers to go and buy beers for them. Slowly, Sobhag liked getting beers for them as they never asked the remaining change left back after buying beers. The school disciplined them to do exercises at the end of the day, Sobhag loved running, he built a strong stamina in running. Starting with one round of the whole ground, slowly he managed to cover fifteen rounds of the ground every day.
As Duke of Gloucester hostel was a mixed community boarding, Sobhag missed the traditional diet and his friends from Meru and hence decided to opt for the India boarding school.
