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Day In The Life Of Bongi

14 Mar 2024, 11:27 Publicly Viewable

RITES OF SEPARATION:
As I rose up this morning, I was woken up by the loud beeping sound of my alarm going "annoying, annoying." Angrily, I hit the snooze button 5 times before officially stepping foot on my cold tile in search for my sleepers. As exhausted as ever, I walked for what seemed like hours to our communal showers. As I entered the shower, droplets of hot, steamy water danced down my skin from head to toe. After taking a shower, I then went back to my room to get dressed. I applied my coconut infused lotion which left my skin feeling soft, silky and radiant. Today I was feeling rebellious and powerful so I opted for an all black outfit. I spritzed my neck and wrists with my hypnotic poison fragrance that radiated a sweet and floral scent. I finished it up with my wild jasmine body mist, which had a spicy and sultry aroma. I felt like that girl and i was now ready for school.

LIMINAL PHASE:
As I waited for the bus in the hot and blistering heat that made me feel like I was being roasted alive at 8:30 a.m, I glanced through my school media. The bus eventually arrived, and upon entering, my skin was assaulted by a chilling shivering breeze coming from the air conditioner, which felt like I had just entered a moving refrigerator. I arrived at school and attended my first lecture. As I entered the lecture hall, I was greeted by the voices and chatter of my peers, who were waiting for our professor. Upon arriving, the class gradually quieted and went entirely silent awaiting direction. After class, my friend and I took the long walk to freedom from E5 to the student center because we were starving and dying of hunger. We ordered a full meal that consisted of a tender chuck steak, a yellow spiced thick rice, a fatty oily tamato gravy and a sweet and spicy chutney flavoured beetroot. You can imagine how we felt after that: heavy! After eating, we went and laid down on the green, luscious grass near the marshy, nasty looking, bug-infested dam for what felt like hours. 

RITES OF REINCORPARATION:
Everything after that felt like a blur, and before I knew it, I was on the bus and on my way back to my residence. The moment I walked into my room, I sighed a sigh of relief as the day had now come to an end and I could finally get into my soft and fluffy bed, which had been calling my darling name from the moment I walked through the door.