My first day at uni. I made it.
The prestigious program at Bondberg college had accepted me into their photography programme.
I was elated. Summer was over and now in late September it was time to get serious.
Our new class was small: in total seventeen students, fourteen girls -- or should I say women now? Three guys.
Quite a mixed bunch: four German, two French, one Chinese, two Indian, one Brazilian, one Polish, and three girls from the US. The guys: one Polish, one Italian, and one English guy.
We gathered in that cramped seminar room that would be our home for the next three years.
Today was to meet people and to be assigned to study groups.
A burly administrator in her fifties read the list. I was in a group with Tanja, Lili and Beth. I noticed that all of us had rather larger breasts. A strange coincidence, I thought.
Our group tutor was a year three girl called Silke. Somehow I was not surprised when she entered and the first thing I noticed were her heavy breasts.
Silke talked us through the programme. Year One, Year Two, Year Three. That year we should try to get an internship. Silke told us she had just signed up for a six months internship at VandalX Magazine. Wow! VandalX was really a cutting edge print magazine for avant-guard photography. She had done really well.
The head of our group was Prof Laufer. He was well-known in photography circles and to be included in his group was a privilege.
"How is he?" I asked Silke, our tutor.
She smiled: "He is really great. We will all have a lot of fun."
I could not quite decipher her smile. There was something strange about it.
"Actually, Prof Laufer will meet with each of you over the next few days. Let me look: I think, you are first. Today, this afternoon," she said turning to me.
"Come at three to the 6th floor. Turn left when you walk out of the elevator and you will find me in one of the rooms. I will introduce you."
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Three o'clock I was in the elevator up to the 6th floor. It was an older building with great views over the old town.
Indeed, finding Silke was not difficult. She was working with negatives in one of the study rooms.
When I walked in, she smiled. Again, this strange smile.
"Hi," I said.
"Hi", she responded, "ready to roll?"