HARRY STYLES - IMAGINES

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Requested by @KhusiKhusi3  I hope you like what I made of your idea, again, sorry for not being able to follow exactly your lead. Also, Harry turned to be out to be less of a dick as I had planned...I just felt myself unable to write like that. (Maybe in the future y'all get to enjoy some major assholeharry vibes we'll see)  

This story is partly happening in India, I tried to keep it as realistic as possible...though I had to add a few things that are maybe not realllyyy a thing. sorry again. it was the only way of making it finally work out and let me tell you, I struggled so much with this one. all the love. 

England was so much colder than India. The rain, the fog and mist and the constant chilly breeze made me miss India more often than I expected I would miss it. Not that I wasn't missing my parents or friends I had back home, but the cold weather was something I still struggled with. Of course I had struggled with homesickness (especially in the first two weeks) besides the weather. And I had also struggled with the language, just a little bit. Even though I thought that I had a pretty decent knowledge of English, the way us Indians speak is different. So the first few weeks in the UK I struggled to understand their different accents. The next step, when I finally got used to that last point, there were also some cultural differences that I faced, staring with the politeness and manners of this country. If someone leaves the door open for you, you are expected to thank them. If you are ordering food, you are expected to say, please and thank you...not that it was something completely new to me, in India you just had no time for such formalities. Here, life was slower in general. Sure, the city was still busy, but it was not that busy in comparison to India. People took their time, they had it. And it reflected visibly in their manners. People are usually pretty decent, talk softly and well mannered. I had no problems getting to know people, despite my rather shy and timid persona. In just my first week almost, I befriended myself with a cute young woman, Katie her name. She lived in the same dorm as I did, and almost immediately took me under her wing. Whenever we shared classes, we sat together and she even took me around in Birmingham a little. She also showed me the cute little café I liked to study in and spend my afternoons.

Obviously, England wasn't just enjoyable as a whole. Despite the well-mannered behaviour on the outside, there was some racism. Though it was very subtle...but it was there. But growing up a girl in India, wanting to engage in a medical field, I was long past this. Not that it didn't affect me at all – of course it did – but it was okay...so far. Besides, England is a beautiful country, but an extremely expensive one. Yes, it was easier to get a Chicken tikka mix bottle in a store here (for example at Tesco or Sainsbury....) than back home in India, but eating out was expensive. Home cooking was way cheaper, and a thing that stuck out to me the most, was that meat is significantly cheaper. Another thing was, that you were far more independent as a student in UK than you have to be as a student in an Indian hostel. I didn't necessarily saw that as something bad, I kind of liked it. It was a kind of independence I always craved for in India, and I grew custom to it very, very quickly. I also realised that there is very little chance of working here - a shrinking economy, with too few jobs and a visa system that prevents you from staying on to look for work prevents this. But because I planned to return to India as soon as I am done, this wasn't really bothering me. What I leaned from Jayani, another student from India, was, that Indian students who go to the UK usually work a part-time job to earn some extra money and to get familiar with their surroundings. A part time job helps the students meet people who live in the UK and interact with them, as this helps them to learn more about the culture of the country we were living in. Some of the easy to find on campus jobs were Library Monitor, Teaching Assistant, Tour Guide, Peer Tutor, Academic Department Assistant, Campus Tech Support, Production Assistant, University Book Store Assistant, Babysitter and Barista. Out of all of them, University Book Store assistant and library monitor where the ones that spoke the most to me...I wasn't attracted in the very interactive jobs due to my shyness. As per the visa guidelines for working part-time jobs, students were only allowed to work twenty hours per week. That was fine with me...I was not in a position where I had to pay my dorm or worry about the expenses, since the university was covering all that for me...because of a scholar ship I still couldn't believe I got.