Being a student is quite hard in this country now days, trying to do well in your studies and trying to balance a job also. Let us be honest we all know how wild parties can get in the student union bar and in the dormitories so I hear.
"This is the best times of our lives" where we should be experimenting with drugs, drinking until we pass out and discovering who we are as individuals, also this is where we can experiment with the opposite sex, the same sex and even a combination of the two and no one will judge us because this is university after all.
I know I am only 21 years old but I am still discovering who I was as person; do I like girls or do I like guys? I did not know what my 5-year plan is yet! I just want to experience life to the max and get a diploma at the end of it too.
As you would be assuming correcting, I am a virgin; this was through my own choice thou. I have always been the nerdy type who just wanted to get on with the task at hand and not get distracted by the clowns in the class even thou some of those guys were my best friends.
I was in my 3rd year at university and it had been the best 3 years of my life. I had gotten great grades, met some amazing people, but I still kept very much to myself and never really got involved with any of the parties, or spent late nights in the bar.
Now I was about to start my dissertation, I knew that this was going to be make or break for my future career in my chosen field.
It was a late Thursday night in the height of summer, during the day the sun was blazing, the humidity in my bedroom was un-bearable even with the window open and the fan blowing directly onto my bare smooth chest. I decided to have a nice cold shower and attempt to get back to my planning when I heard a piece of paper be slipped under my door.
It was a flyer inviting all the seniors on a bar crawl to celebrate the end of all our exams, even thou my course will not be finishing until a few months later.
This was the last opportunity that I would have to go out and experience all that I had missed during my time here, so I told myself that I needed a night off and psyched myself up into going out that weekend.
The weekend had arrived and I was confident now that all my planning was complete and that I knew where I was going with all my work to come, so I decided to jump in the shower, get dressed style my hair and head out to the meeting place where my other friends were.
As usual, they had already been drinking on the way to the pub and by the smell of them had been doing some form of drugs, because the smell was not like any aftershave or deodorant that I had ever smelt before. It had a strong odour to it.
I ordered a drink at the bar, joined the rest of my friends, and began to get involved with the conversations that they were having whist we waited for others to arrive.
An hour or so later I was still only on my second pint of beer, everyone else was on his or her 5th at least, that was just since I arrived, I downed the rest of my glass to try to help me to relax and let loose. To forget about everything except having a good time, socialising and having a night that I would not forget.
Once everyone arrived we moved onto another pub and ordered some shots, now the party was really in the full swing around 60 of us all laughing, joking, winding each other up and sharing stories of who had slept with who and where.
When this started I slowly crept to the bar and ordered another shot and pint of beer hoping that no one would notice and that I wouldn't get brought into the conversation, as I couldn't contribute anything as I was still a virgin.
I had not experienced anything before, except just a kiss when I was very young from a girl in my class but I pulled away so quickly that I did not even count it as a real kiss.
One of the popular lads from one of my classes came to the bar laughing at what the latest conversation he was having with the other members in the group, he stood next to me waiting to be served but the bar was busy so had to wait a few moments.
He turned to me and said my name I turned in response pretending not to notice him in the first instance and said hi in response, we began chatting and he asked me if I was enjoying my night to which I gave him a smile as I didn't really catch what he said as it was quite noisy.
He gestured towards the door and had a rolled up cigarette in his hands, to which I smiled and nodded, I followed him outside and felt the heat from the warm slightly humid air around us hit me and gave me a slight sense of light-headedness.
He sparked up his cigarette and I could instantly recognise the smell, it smelt just like that cigarette that one my friends had previously, the smell hit the back of my throat and my nasal passages like a shock to my system. He offered it to me and I looked at him curiously.
He then proceeded to tell me it was cannabis, I was not ignorant I knew what it was but had not been around anyone smoking it before.
I took it from him, placed the butt to the end of my mouth, and took a big drag from it, the taste hitting the back of my throat as I inhaled; it felt like razorblade scratching all the way down.
I coughed and spluttered as it reached my lungs and kept trying to inhale fresh oxygen to clear my throat and lungs.
He asked if I was ok and started just smirking at me like he found it the most funniest thing he had ever seen in his life, once I regained my composure I took the cigarette from him again and took another suck on it taking it down into my lungs but this time I was prepared.
I slowly began to let the smoke out and began instantly to feel the effects working, my body began to relax and my head began to spin as if I had drunk too much. I passed him back his joint and we continued to talk.
Feeling more relaxed and secretly enjoying the feeling I was now experiencing I took it from in-between his fingers and finished the last of it, topping up this euphoric feeling that had been the best feeling I had experienced in my entire life.
We went back and joined in with the rest of our friends and this time I did not care what the conversation was but I just joined in on it, and ended up having a fantastic time and feeling included for the first time in my life.
We moved on-to a club which wasn't too far away but the way I felt it was miles, everything felt like it was in slow motion right now, watching people in the streets on hen and stag do's dressed up in costumes just made me smile and giggle at the simple sight of them.
Whilst walking up the street the smell of cannabis hit me again, I smelt my clothes to see if it was I or if someone had another on the go. I followed the smell back to the person who gave me my first hit and asked him if he had any more.
He pulled me to the side down a dark alley and told me that he had several more joints on him and he would sell me a few if I were interested. He told me a price and I agreed to pay for this amazing feeling.