Georgia
![For the first time in my life, I will be living in a hostel](https://etoile-de-kota.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_8686.jpeg)
For the first time in my life, I will be living in a hostel
by Kota Ishihara
Today, I arrived home around 4:00 AM and have been drunk ever since. I had two glasses of cha-cha, two glasses of wine, and one beer, so of course I was drunk. But it was very hard because I had to get up at 11:00 a.m. today and then I had to get ready for the move. So anyway, I set my alarm for 11:00 and washed and dried all my clothes that smelled like cigarettes, and my socks.
It will probably take some time until they are completely dry.
So I slept in my bed. In the end, it was past six o’clock when I was able to go to bed. In common, when you are really drunk, you don’t feel well, which is why you are tired of having strange dreams. So I had a loop of bad dreams, and I was really tired when I woke up in the morning.
Finally pack up all my stuff and leave the flat
I only slept for 5 hours and I’m insanely tired. But, oh well, I got up somehow. After that, I asked the caretaker if I could stay until about 2:00 p.m., since the check-in time was at 3:00 p.m. I thought that since there were no new guests coming today, I could just relax and enjoy myself. She said she didn’t know if she would have guests or not.
Anyway, she told me that she had to be here at 12:00 to clean the room. I told her that the boss had said that there would be no guests today, so it would be fine, but I thought it would be better to leave as early as possible. It would probably be better that way. So I gathered up all the laundry first. I dried all the wet ones with a hair dryer. This was a real pain, and the ones that were halfway dry smelled bad for some reason. I think the water is probably not good water. That’s why they smelled really bad. Even after washing with soap, that water still smelled bad. So it was a real hassle because the smell would not come off until they were completely dry.
Finally, I dried all my socks, pants, and then my jacket, and I was done! Next, I packed all my stuff, then sorted out what was fruit or edible, then washed all the dishes, then took out the trash. I didn’t really have to do that, but I decided to do that as a sign of my gratitude. Finally, I packed everything up and was ready to go! It ended up being 1:15, but that’s how I told her, and I finally left the place where I lived for a month and a half, and it was going to be a very memorable place to live.
So I decided to go to a cafe in front of the station before check-in at Fabrika, which was at 3:00. So I ordered a cappuccino and joined the meeting there.
At the meeting, I was checking for any omissions in the current case.
Finally, I started living in a hostel for the first time in my life!
Once that was done, it was almost time to go, so I checked in at Fabrica. Fabrica was crazy big and amazingly huge. The reception area was like a tourist attraction, with lots of interesting furniture like a café, and lots of free space to use. But there were always a lot of people there. So I felt like I should go there at 6:00 in the morning or something. So I’m going to take this opportunity to fix this into an early to bed early to rise week.
![ファブリカホステル。超巨大。ソビエト時代は、工場だったとか。](https://etoile-de-kota.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_8686-231x308.jpeg)
Fabrica Hostel. Super huge. In the Soviet era, it was a factory.
I checked in safely and went into the room, but there were people sleeping or doing something, but there was no clean area in that room, and everything was used. So I was like, “Where? So I went to the front desk again, and apparently they had gotten one of the rooms wrong, so I ended up in room 132. When I got there, I found a Pakistani guy. From the smell, I thought he was probably of Indian descent, and I was right. It is an Indian with really strong body odor. I recognized him right away. He was a very nice guy, had been to Japan, and he had climbed Tokyo Tower. He usually lives in Dubai and is now in Georgia as a tourist. So I told him that I was a tourist as well. We talked about such things together for a long time.
I was really worried about what I would do when I first entered the room, how I would respond to everyone, and whether I would be okay, but it was no big deal at all, and I was able to communicate with everyone normally, so I really think that 90% of our worries will not happen. I was really surprised to find out that 90% of my anxiety is a overthinking. In the end, anxiety is just something we make up on our own, and our brains just overreact. That’s really true. But still, I’m glad.
After that, I packed my bags and thought I would sit down somewhere at the front desk to work. But when I sat down in an empty space, the clerk there told me that those seats were not for free, so I had no choice but to go outside to a nearby café. The cafe I wanted to go to was inside the hotel, so I gave up on that too and ended up going to Dunkin, a donut shop. I bought a croissant and wrote my diary there. Then I went back to Fabrica, where I am writing this diary. I am going to take a shower and go to bed early from today.
Then, because I was hungry, I went to Fabrica’s Eatery. There I had some Khachapuri and orange juice. Then I went back to my room and wrote my diary again. This reminded me a lot of Russia, where I used to write my diary in the dormitory. Back then, I used to write everything down in a book, but now I feel like I’m posting it to the media, so I feel like I’ve upgraded a bit lol.