Back to the rainy season of 80's when the school re opens on June.
Amma called me morning @ 7.30am and asked me to get up from bed and get ready to school
I asked her "Can I go to school tomorrow?" Phatak!Got it! a nice beating.
Brushed,Bathed,Had a half dosa wen the bus was honking.
I tried another chance "Amma, Can I .....? " Phatak! One more to add.
Entered into the bus with frown face and tears rolling down my cheeks!
And guess what, in the bus I got friends, who cried louder than me.
Crying and going to school after a long summer vacation, with new uniforms, new bags fully stuffed, small new VIBGYOR color umbrella, well covered books with HE-Man,Spiderman labels on, pencils which have no leds, eraser (i always got it my friends) and a tiffin box.
By the time, wen i reached the classroom my shoes were filled with water and the whole day i ll be carrying around with them ;-).
When the class begins, I ll be busy showing the new things to my friends and that's when i got the first beating in school. "Phatak!" No:3 to the list!.
Now the lunch break.
Hope you know how much noise wen there are a more than a 100 children.
Target was to finish the lunch box. :-) which had chappathi's rolled with jam. Yummy! Still I feel that taste which Amma used to make me. I finished my meal fast for playing 'war' game.
Me n my friends were soldiers. We used to shoot anyone which comes in our territory!!
Once I said "hands-up". After that I shot myself, it was the school 'Principal'.
He said "Go to your classes" and i told "Thank You Sir".
I had my VIBGYOR umbrella as machine gun and finally when the war was over (bell rang!) machine gun was broken.
Then the best part, after lunch break we had a nap. My suggestion is that still we should follow this rule! :-)
Couple more hours and that's it. Its time to go home and play.
No tension! No commitments! Just go to school and come back! Life was simple, but great.
Every Friday evening was a big vacation for me and every Monday morning I had cold!!! ;-)
That age was called good old golden age! I really miss those days.
Amma called me morning @ 7.30am and asked me to get up from bed and get ready to school
I asked her "Can I go to school tomorrow?" Phatak!Got it! a nice beating.
Brushed,Bathed,Had a half dosa wen the bus was honking.
I tried another chance "Amma, Can I .....? " Phatak! One more to add.
Entered into the bus with frown face and tears rolling down my cheeks!
And guess what, in the bus I got friends, who cried louder than me.
Crying and going to school after a long summer vacation, with new uniforms, new bags fully stuffed, small new VIBGYOR color umbrella, well covered books with HE-Man,Spiderman labels on, pencils which have no leds, eraser (i always got it my friends) and a tiffin box.
By the time, wen i reached the classroom my shoes were filled with water and the whole day i ll be carrying around with them ;-).
When the class begins, I ll be busy showing the new things to my friends and that's when i got the first beating in school. "Phatak!" No:3 to the list!.
Now the lunch break.
Hope you know how much noise wen there are a more than a 100 children.
Target was to finish the lunch box. :-) which had chappathi's rolled with jam. Yummy! Still I feel that taste which Amma used to make me. I finished my meal fast for playing 'war' game.
Me n my friends were soldiers. We used to shoot anyone which comes in our territory!!
Once I said "hands-up". After that I shot myself, it was the school 'Principal'.
He said "Go to your classes" and i told "Thank You Sir".
I had my VIBGYOR umbrella as machine gun and finally when the war was over (bell rang!) machine gun was broken.
Then the best part, after lunch break we had a nap. My suggestion is that still we should follow this rule! :-)
Couple more hours and that's it. Its time to go home and play.
No tension! No commitments! Just go to school and come back! Life was simple, but great.
Every Friday evening was a big vacation for me and every Monday morning I had cold!!! ;-)
That age was called good old golden age! I really miss those days.
Ur blog made me remind of those simple and easy days of our life which we left far behind and just pushed on to complexities day by day...But still its really a great feeling to freshly remember all those special and beautiful days in school....Good start!!Do keep writing..
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