The sun is still not up..here we
are awake at 6 o clock sharp..adorned in uniform & bag packed with new note
pads & text books, pencil & lunch boxes, that’s how the innocent
childhood took a step forward. I don’t remember any single day when we did not
collectively prayed to God at the bus stop for a surprise school holiday! (No
wonder some of us ended up being such staunch atheists)
Bells of assembly, singing chorus,
the inhibition of being caught up during inspection for anything wrong or not
so good was always there.
We started off with pencils &
wanted to color the world with crayons & sketch pens. With new books &
happy faces we began with remembering alphabets & numbers followed by
tables, every mathematical problem we did in school was the easiest of all
while the home work ones used to be really tough, cant forget the way teacher’s
gave us a helping hand & were always ready to listen and be a friend, they
brought in the confidence in us, every praise by them was the biggest
achievement for us. Time spent in Hindi classes doing chit- chat (as if we were
the masters in Hindi) or sometimes reading our favorite comics, brings smile on
face even today. Playing Dum Charades, pen fight, what color you want and many
other games which I don’t even remember now in every free lecture was so much
fun. School was the place where we perfected the art of making planes &
boats. We used to finish lunch in the short break so that the lunch break can
be for our favorite candies, popins, mango bite or sometimes for the games I
just talked about, ate Lays for their Tazos, bought Complan instead of Boost
for the free tennis ball.
The games classes was awaited
more eagerly than any thing of utmost importance, we probably played every sport
known in the world that too in the scorching heat & we never felt tired
with that. Those were the days of fight with friends and making up, without any
conspiracies…those were the days of competition…those were the days when we
wanted to raise our hands before any of our classmates to answer the questions
of our teachers. Celebrating birthday’s at school was another lovely experience
where in we had the courtesy to wear any dress of our choice, giving out
chocolates to everybody and getting their wishes in chorus made us felt like none
less than any Oscar winning celeb.
The craze of being a part of the
Sports or Annual Day & excelling & giving our best in them (as if we were
the Michael Jackson & Sachin Tendulkar) makes me excited even today.
Half yearly & annual exam
days were the only stressful days for us, I remember the long nights we spent
in practicing & mugging up long chapters, trying to give our best even in the
subjects we detest the most. Anxiety for results & umpteen ideas to defend
ourselves in case of average performance in any subject was a part of it.
