GCU is Love.

Seriously, its wonderfully, amazingly, beautiful! Its such a staggeringly huge and stunning place! I just love the place and i wanted to sit and bawl right there. I want to go to GCU (Government College University)! I really, really want to go to GC, i wish i could! Obviously, with just a year and a half left in my Bachelors, I can't ='(. Sigh. Maybe Masters...ah well. We all dream, and dream big lol.

We went for the first time today, we had this research project i mentioned in the earlier post. We had to select a random sample of 30 males. We knew a total of one female there, Khan's friend, Annie. Annie had to get us inside IF there was a problem at the main gate, since we didn't have a college reference letter (because our lanti college couldn't care less about how we go about conducting our research, they just want the end result).

So obviously, there was a problem at the main gate. How could there NOT be. There always is when its Khan and I and its just sad. 6-7 years of problems is NOT good. The gate walay, who pretty nice, asked us for our I.D. cards and since we we're not students of GCU, we didn't have any. So we made up masoom/mazloom expressions and said that a friend of ours is from the college and blah blah. They told us to call our friend at the gate and that they would let us go inside after seeing her I.D. So we called up Annie. Who cursed us for even going to the main gate, apparently we were supposed to get inside by the side gate. Where no-one would have cared who we were or where we're from. Yes Annie, we're supposed to know that without you telling us, right? Misunderstandings.

The bahar gate walay let us go inside with Annie, but once we were inside (how could it NOT happen) there suddenly appeared a little man in a guard's uniform and goes "Hanji...Kidher?!" We go "...ummm". And then turns out he already knows we're outsiders (new rule implemented : outsiders not allowed. When this happened? Nobody knows. Our luck) and Annie and the little guard start arguing. And they go on and on and on and on. Meanwhile, Khan and I are being stared at, pointed to, laughed at and it was mortifying. Anyway, the little guard confiscated Annie's I.D. because she told him we were here for the wonderful chaye and she was just taking us to the cafe. He says "thori dayr mein wapas na na ai, proctor office bhaij don ga card!" Annie goes fine. whatever, keep the card.

FINALLY, we go inside the university. Gaping, eyes wide, completely awed, we ran around everywhere for a while, just taking everything in. It was weird asking guys to fill our questionnaires, most of them stared at us blankly, the rest just laughed. They ALL took hours to answer 12 simple questions, close-ended questions - meaning choose just 'yes' or 'no'. How hard is that? For the GCU guys, it was apparently a very intricate brain-game. A lot of them ruined our questionnaires with comments and smileys and stuff. We had to show this to our TEACHER, who makes Hitler look like a nice, gentle, people-loving man. Most of the guys were really non-serious about it, ofcourse, Lahories being Lahories, all were chichoray. Snorts, laughter, lame excuses for not filling it, more snorts and obviously, stares. The reason for which I found out was.... me.

Apparently, Annie neglected to mention jeans were STRICTLY banned from the university. Not just for girls, for GUYS as well. I was wearing jeans. So...yeah. I was pretty much of an oddity. Girls stared, guys stared, we were constantly afraid that if even ONE complaint went to the office...and they called OUR universty...well our lives would have been over right then. For the next few years anyway. Deep sigh. So anyway, we escaped unscathed. Thankyou GOD! No more jeans in GC. Shudder.

Then, when we got to the main gate, the two bahar walay guards were there, not the little one. The nice ones. They gave Annie her I.D. back and asked us how we liked the cafe chaye. We told them we were so tense about their threats and stuff, we practically ran around the university and came back to the gate. Which was a lie, obviously, but they didn't know that. Their faces LITERALLY fell. They went like "Aap ne chaye nai pi hamari wajah se?! Oh jao jao hum bachiyon ko nai tung karte, aap jao hamari taraf se chaye piyo jo marzi karo, 'anjoy' karo, bachiyan khush rahein bus. Aap jao, mazay karo!". Aww. So being the mean people we are...we went back =P This time REALLY to the cafe haha. We didn't have the famous chaye though. But it was fun. I love GC anyway.