Leaving home for university -Sara Kapadia

At 18 I left London to go to Cambridge… it was so exciting.. and yet daunting… my room at the university was in the girls’ building… on the top floor… the bedroom was just a small tiny box, and yet it was so cosy, my bed up against the wall, a built-in desk and cupboards… the smallness felt perfect, like a little nest I could curl into, but it was ironic in a way because  I felt I was becoming bigger… and the world was open and more open… everyday… nest is the right word… as I did take flight!