Co-translator : Akasha-Cataleya
Chapter 1
This morning is my first morning as a full-time student. I passed the exam to enter a famous university near my home. Today is my college orientation day, it's the day we meet our mentors and the rest of my classmates who, like me, passed the entrance exam. The TCAS of Admission Gat-Pat Onet with whom I will share the next 4 years of my career. The truth is that I'm secretly excited.
"What kind of people will the new friends be in college?"
I forgot to introduce myself, I am Por Pawararet Sae Zhang, a student who is in the first year of the Faculty of Engineering, in the Department of Industrial Engineering, at K University. I am a person of Chinese descent, so my face is half Chinese half Thai Chinese, so my face looks like a very sweet person, so sweet that I am often teased because I look like plus one girl, and this is influenced not only by the face but also by my calm and orderly attitude. Let's just say that I'm a person who doesn't compete with people about their hobbies, rather I'm one of those who prefers to sit quietly and read books, instead of going to play sports outside in the mid day sun. My half, half descent has to do with the fact that my father is Chinese but my mother is Thai, so I would do my university studies through the country of my mother's descent. My grandparents had come here from the era of mat sheet rugs and started with nothing, though to this day things haven't gotten much better, we still have nothing. We only have a small business to sell Thai desserts, inherited from my grandmother, which my mother continued to take care of for a while before my aunt took over. Well nowadays Thai desserts are not very popular, even I, who used to sell Thai desserts by my mother, still choose to enter an ice cream parlor or pastry shop instead of eating the Thai desserts that my mother prepares. Well ... let's get back to the story that interests us. Today is the first day to go to the university and since I am afraid of being late for the university, I will ask my father to take me, before he goes to his work. I don't want to be late for the first day of class.
“Dad, today is the first day of college, you can take me"
“Uhmm … it's okay” my father said kindly while he walked to pick up the car keys, the same one he used to drive to work from him.
Speaking of friends, I don't really have many friends. Maybe it was because I was too quiet. I'm one of those who rarely asks anything, I just prefer to sit quietly instead of arguing with other people in order to win. The people who approached me were only those who were looking for tutoring, and there were even those who wanted to be my friends, just for the benefit of copying my homework or to copy the exam. There are only a few close friends who know each other without speaking. And one of them is ... Thung Paeng.
“Hello, what's up Thung Paeng?” at the time I was thinking about him, he called out to me.
[Whoa! What do I need to prepare for today?]
“oh."
[I am about to reach the Pattana Engineering Building. But I forgot to prepare the documents.]
“Which document?"
[It's on the website. They say we need to bring, a student photo, a copy of the identity card, the 6th grade certificate and the address. Oh, how could I forget?]
“Thung Paeng!"
[ ... ]
“Calm down, that's something you should prepare for the day of your registration."
