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I guess I have to type something out, first to clear my mind and second because I'm in the right mood.

I went over to a friend's dorm room this morning. She asked me for some helps with Microsoft office and I was an 'expert' in her eyes, so to say. After she had understood all the points, I didn't go home right away 'cause it's quite cold outside and I felt that there were some tones in her voice wanting me to stay. And as I had thought, she told me about some aspects of her hard life away from home.

Her family is living in the countryside, and her parents have difficulties raising 2 more little brothers of hers, so they can't support her very well. She has a part-time job as a private tutor, but doesn't have any vehicle to go to the work place. She walks all the time. Her English is poor, but obviously she can't afford a night course to improve it. For that, her grades would be a mess since English is considered a serial killer in our academy.

She has never been far from home and it's been almost 5 months since she moved to the city to study at our academy, her countryside is near our place yet she hasn't come back to her hometown to visit family as the train ticket seems expensive to her. My friend is unfamiliar with the speed of city life, and she has homesick.

I have to mention that she is so naive. She loves literature and has been dreaming of being a writer, which is senseless to be studying at Diplomatic Academy. In her eyes everyone is good, there's nothing bad in life, etc. From her way of using words, I made out that she's way too romantic and unrealistic, and for some moments I was worried that she would be easily hurt, she's fragile.

We stood on the corridor talking for some more minutes and I had to leave in the end although she wholeheartedly invited me to stay for lunch. Her story lingers and I guess I couldn't take more of it 'cause I'm not really used to be a good listener. She's a kind one. After the final tests are over, I think I would do some things to help her.