School Chale Hum!!!

I always make it a point to go to my old school during every semester break to meet my old teachers. After all, school teachers rock – unlike their college counterparts. So I enter the premises of KV-1 Jalahalli, primarily with the intentions of meeting two of my favourite teachers – Mrs.Sherin John, my English teacher from class VIII to X and Mrs. K Latha, my biology teacher from class XI to XII. And every time I meet them, I add new memories to cherish. (But as a matter of fact, I hardly come back without meeting at least 20 teachers – I’m glad they still remember me!)

“Me!? At the School Canteen???”
You won’t believe – I’ve been at that school for five long years and the only time I’ve been at the school canteen was to buy the school belt. I’ve never been there with the intention of filling my stomach – today was the first. And that too coz Latha ma’am invited me there. And of course, she happens to one of the few teachers I really respect and as they say, her wish/request is my command. So I accompany her and she says,”Take anything and everything you want.”

But I had no real urge to eat – I wonder why! So I take a masala vada and say I’ll be fine with this, but she insists I take one more – and I comply! So my first visit to the school canteen comes two after I pass out of that school! Life never ceases to surprise…..

“What Am I Doing in the Staff Room!??”
One place we students sort of revered, even feared, when we were in school. But now, finding myself sitting with my old teachers discussing and chit-chatting – I wonder if this really is happening (actually, it has been happening every semester break since I left school – but I’ve not yet been able to digest this fact). Sherin ma’am wasn’t really surprised to see me – she knows I’m jobless for more than 5 months a year. And she meets me with a stare which seemed to say,”You are always free, aren’t you?” And how could I deny the truth!

So it was the X-C show – about how we had our reunion on the previous Sunday, about what the others are doing and stuff. And then a teacher unknown to me comes and says someone has hit the blackboard in X-C with a duster and it has broken to pieces. Now we never did anything of that sort – so maybe our X-C was better!?

Anyways, it was another great experience “sitting” on a chair in the staff room – we were used to standing in that room. (I seek an excuse from the other teachers who were present – I can’t mention all of your names).


Another great day at school – hoping to have many more…..