Letter to Your Mother Telling Her About Your Hostel Life

25 May, 2015

 Munir Hostel

Room No: 31

Govt. Rajendra College

Faridpur, Bangladesh

Dear Mummy,

Your letter is to hand. This is the first time I am living in a hostel. Therefore, it is quite natural for you to feel so anxious about me. However, as I assured you before, there is nothing to worry about. Hostel-life is not really, what you think it to be. No doubt, one misses the love of one’s parents, brothers and sisters. There is no want of sincere friendship in a hostel. We are in all thirty boarders making up a family of our own with the superintendent as the head.

 If anyone falls ill here, the hostel doctor comes in and the fellow boarders give him all the care and attendance he requires. Hostel life has advantages too. It is free from the indulgence we get at home, and this gives us habits of self-help and a sense of brotherhood. We have to take care to our personal belongings. We ourselves make up our own beds, and live under strict discipline from dawn to dusk.

As to food, we have good tiffin both in the morning and in the evening, besides the two principal meals. The items vary from day to day, but nothing injurious to health is allowed to enter the kitchen. Therefore, I hope you will not worry too much about me. Your anxiety only will upset me. With respects to you and father and love to the younger ones.                                                                               

Yours affectionately,

Mishu