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When it is the girls' turn at the boy's hostel
Samuel Adjei Ntow
Beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive.
-John Milton
Cars, movies, money, food, and of course football, all male
tendencies, are very interesting subjects at any boy’s hostel
which, of course, make conversations fun and most often
argumentative.
But what really happens when girls become the
subject of at the hostel, when they assume the center stage in
boys' conversation?
Like the moon on a cloudy night, they are made different.
Depending on who is telling the story, these young ladies who
are most often course mates can be polite young ladies,
intelligent, beautiful, ugly, and a whole lot of indescribable
adjectives as you can well guess.
Their whole being is literally dissected like that of a cow at
the abattoir as nothing is spared, from clothes, shoes, hand
bags and hairstyles; wigged or natural, braided or permed, they
are all put under the microscope of the eyes of man at the
men’s hostel.
Talking about girls is a natural craft for boys as its one of
the blessings or rather curses that comes with puberty just like
the deep voices and broad shoulders of adolescence. Curiosity
about girls has been a craze among men for time immemorial.
Sometimes these conversations get really far from a modest “I
said high to this girl today or I sat behind her at lectures” to
boasting about conquest which is often inspired by the skimpy
dresses of the only human companion of man. Female virtues can
be lost in just a few sentences.
When it’s the turn of the ladies at the men’s hostel, it doesn’t
end at the round conference as they follow the guys stubbornly
to bed, pampering them in their dreams till morning comes where
they wait their turn again in the conversations at the boy’s
hostel.
By; Samuel Adjei Ntow
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