Our hungry student body

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

In the morning I receive an email from Dasha:

- Jan, where are we meeting today?

- Decide with Bragin without me. I'm running away. Call me on mobile.

Call. Bragin:

- I have booked a table at"

- OK, at eight on Kropotkinskaya.

- Bragin! You look super! Who cut the hair?

- Fagot alone in "Persona" tried!

- Yanych, why do you smell so tasty?

- "Ralph", the latest fragrance from Ralph Lauren.

- Dasha! And where did you grab such a cool blouse?

- Yes, I got on sale in "Mexx".

- Oh, girls! Tomorrow at Stanislavsky the beginning of the Metro season. Let's go to?

- I can not. I'm on a business trip to Slovakia.

Having dinner in a cozy restaurant at a table filled with Georgian dishes, I remember our hungry students.

I remember the long hours I spent in line for a scholarship, and how hard it was to hear: "The journalism department has not been credited yet!" And if you have credited it, then it’s a holiday! So, let's go to McDonald's! Enough for both Big Mac and potatoes! And you can not ask for free soda, but buy a large portion of Coca-Cola. However, no, better small. We must also return the debt to Ardaeva, last time she fed us on her own.

If the scholarship was awarded with a surcharge for passing the session without triples, it means that you can buy a ring in your nose. I've been pasting him for a long time. No, my nose is not pierced, it's a clip. I remember showing up with Bokshitskaya for a couple with nose rings. And with Bragin, we found fashionable skirts for 4 rubles, only we chose different colors so as not to go around like incubators.

On Thursdays in "Lenkom" journalism department is allowed on student cards. If there will be free places, we will sit down. If they won't - we will stand.

And once at the faculty there was a presentation of "Kit Cat" chocolates. Having tasted the chocolate, it was necessary to fill out a form and receive a prize in exchange for it. To get the second chocolate bar, we changed clothes, put on sunglasses, hats and caps and, transformed and unrecognized, received chocolates and prizes for the second, third and even fourth time.

When an international press conference was held at the journalism faculty, we had breakfast and dinner, taking the participant's badges from each other. If those who stood at the distribution of meals would pay attention to the name inscribed on the card, they would notice that Vasya Pupkin is having lunch for the 44th time, appearing in both female and male guise.

There was a chronic shortage of money for New Year's gifts. True, one day we were lucky: we were standing in the passage, racking our brains where to get extra money for gifts, and then a guy with a huge questionnaire flies up: "Girls, answer me? Each will give 50 rubles!" Well, of course, we will answer! You are still asking!

- And remember, girls, Kiryusha invited us to a concert of his group to a bar …

- Yes Yes Yes! And there was only enough money for three glasses of beer, and you can't sit at an empty table …, - Bragina picks up.

- Uh-huh, - Dasha makes a grimace, - and each of her mugs pulled for 3 hours …

I look at such dear faces of Dasha and Anka, with whom I entered together and in the same group we unlearned from beginning to end. With them, with servility of first smokers, they looked at the fifth-year students, and then, from the heights of the fifth year, looked at the first smokers with disdain. They shared misses and cheat sheets with them. They found their first zhurfakov love, one of which poured into Dashkina, already three-year-old Sasha …

- Girls, could we then think that after 5 years everything will be completely different?

And we did not even think … We knew that we would not get lost. And they studied. We studied to become specialists, to find a good job, to enjoy what we do, and to be able, without saving, to regularly gather in cozy cafes and remember how it was.

“For us, girls!” I raise a glass of dry red wine. It reflects the flame of a candle and snowflakes falling outside the window on Tatyana's day.