I was the happiest person in the whole world that day! It was the day I had been waiting for...since my...since my...mmmm birth!! (okay...i know its hard to digest..but at least can I say... since I started to speak and understand!)
Yea..That's how happy I was that day..Ohh please!! of course not..i didn't go to my school in that tricycle. But ya i guess some day..someone had told me..i will be going on that tricycle to my school... maybe just to amuse me, but i believed it fully and was pretty serious and thrilled about it :)
I had been preparing myself for this day since several months. It was my dream..and I was about to achieve that dream. I had seen and heard of many people in my family having achieved it... they had been at this cool and wonderful place!
I have been demanding for things to my parents...things, that I would need to be at that place! I have been doing all the planning and arranging of shoes, bags, accessories for hair, and other necessary things like bottles to store water, boxes or tiffins to preserve food...everything that people who go to THAT place owned.
I was completely prepared and ready to be at that..coool place...Any guesses about the place?? Its the place that all of you who are reading this post have gone to..been there and done it! ;) Everyone...age no bar, sex no bar.
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Well that happening and cool place is called... 'SCHOOL!!!'. Yes! It was my first day of School!
So going back to that day...that day I jumped off my bed..early in the morning..as soon as my Mom called me. Unlike the other days, when I would go on saying "5 mintsh ...only 5 mintsh more Amma!' for getting up from bed. To my amma's surprise, I had also brushed my teeth and had taken bath...all by myself! For a change, that day I was after my amma to dress me up and get me ready for the 'Shhacool'!
So here I was, ready for the picture that my Achan was about to take, "brand new, shiny, black-coloured buckle-up bata shoes, red coloured socks, red and white check pinaform with a white inner shirt (that was my uniform), hair neatly tucked by a red ribbon... into two small ponytails, round football-like face (I was really plump) and a big bright Colgate smile, showing off a set of neatly brushed teeth.
Well somehow, my parents convinced me why i could not go to my school in my tricycle and i reached my school for once.
Huge gates...large playground...lots of trees....a big statue of God....a large stage....long corridors behind the grilled windows in a huge building...I felt like I was in some other world!
I saw there were many other kids like me along with their parents in the ground...everyone checking out the surroundings! Some kids were looking so grumpy and sad...as if somebody forced them to be there...some kids like me were beaming with their colgate smiles..and there were this other strange kids..who had literally gone crazy...and were running..shouting and jumping around the campus like monkeys! I thought to myself - "uff why are these kids behaving like this at a cool and sophisticated place like school...they should look at me and learn how to behave!"
Then a big siren rang..and all of a sudden all the parents panicked and started grabbing their children and creating a line in front of one small door. Even my parents rushed me to join the line. I figured that the siren meant something serious...was frightened for a while. But my achan (father) told me that it was a signal that meant that the school is about to begin and in order to get into the room where we would sit ...the room called class... we had to form a queue...so that everyone could go one by one. Aaaah...i was relaxed...there again with a beaming smile. Then one fat aunty came and told something aloud in a language i didn't understand then...guess it meant now we could go in...as after that, parents started taking their kids inside one after other.
All the parents went inside ...made their respective child sit in the front rows of the benches and kissed their kids goodbye...and went outside...some parents just nodded their heads to their child and went...Some parents were telling some secrets to their children...i was curious to hear what they were telling. My parents made me sit...and they said they will come to pick me once the school is done..and i was totally fine about it..and waved goodbye to them..as many times as they waved goodbye to me...even after going out.
I looked around and observed that some kids were sitting there with a balloon face...some were sobbing....and some crazy ones were trying to run out even here...and the fat lady with another lean young lady were trying to put them back on their seat. After a while..this fat lady..told something to the parents waiting outside and she shut the door with a thud....soon...there was this huge noise of many of these kids crying aloud together.....this made my heart pound faster...and all of a sudden i realized no one looked happy!!
I thought there must be something wrong about the situation...that all were crying except that fat lady! May be she was going to cause some harm to us...beat us up...or never let us go back to our parents...may be i was fooled and tricked...and after the sudden flow of all these thoughts...i too started crying out ALOUD...at the top of my voice and mouth wide open...and tears were gushing out as if a tap had been switched on....i also then remember trying to run and push the door open and save everyone of us....but all in vein :)
I don't remember what happened after that :) ... But that was one memorable day and event in my life...and now I am awaiting one more such memorable day of my life...when it will be my son Vivaan's first day at his play school on the 3rd of this June.
My only qualm he won't find a big playground with lots of trees as we don't find many such schools in a city like Bangalore these days! :(
PS : If you also have a funny or fond memory about your day at school...kindly share it in the comments section :)
Huge gates...large playground...lots of trees....a big statue of God....a large stage....long corridors behind the grilled windows in a huge building...I felt like I was in some other world!
I saw there were many other kids like me along with their parents in the ground...everyone checking out the surroundings! Some kids were looking so grumpy and sad...as if somebody forced them to be there...some kids like me were beaming with their colgate smiles..and there were this other strange kids..who had literally gone crazy...and were running..shouting and jumping around the campus like monkeys! I thought to myself - "uff why are these kids behaving like this at a cool and sophisticated place like school...they should look at me and learn how to behave!"
Then a big siren rang..and all of a sudden all the parents panicked and started grabbing their children and creating a line in front of one small door. Even my parents rushed me to join the line. I figured that the siren meant something serious...was frightened for a while. But my achan (father) told me that it was a signal that meant that the school is about to begin and in order to get into the room where we would sit ...the room called class... we had to form a queue...so that everyone could go one by one. Aaaah...i was relaxed...there again with a beaming smile. Then one fat aunty came and told something aloud in a language i didn't understand then...guess it meant now we could go in...as after that, parents started taking their kids inside one after other.
All the parents went inside ...made their respective child sit in the front rows of the benches and kissed their kids goodbye...and went outside...some parents just nodded their heads to their child and went...Some parents were telling some secrets to their children...i was curious to hear what they were telling. My parents made me sit...and they said they will come to pick me once the school is done..and i was totally fine about it..and waved goodbye to them..as many times as they waved goodbye to me...even after going out.
I looked around and observed that some kids were sitting there with a balloon face...some were sobbing....and some crazy ones were trying to run out even here...and the fat lady with another lean young lady were trying to put them back on their seat. After a while..this fat lady..told something to the parents waiting outside and she shut the door with a thud....soon...there was this huge noise of many of these kids crying aloud together.....this made my heart pound faster...and all of a sudden i realized no one looked happy!!
I thought there must be something wrong about the situation...that all were crying except that fat lady! May be she was going to cause some harm to us...beat us up...or never let us go back to our parents...may be i was fooled and tricked...and after the sudden flow of all these thoughts...i too started crying out ALOUD...at the top of my voice and mouth wide open...and tears were gushing out as if a tap had been switched on....i also then remember trying to run and push the door open and save everyone of us....but all in vein :)
I don't remember what happened after that :) ... But that was one memorable day and event in my life...and now I am awaiting one more such memorable day of my life...when it will be my son Vivaan's first day at his play school on the 3rd of this June.
My only qualm he won't find a big playground with lots of trees as we don't find many such schools in a city like Bangalore these days! :(
PS : If you also have a funny or fond memory about your day at school...kindly share it in the comments section :)
