My Schooling - III

Continuing with playing cricket in school as it is more fun... So how do we used to play cricket? This is a very very interesting way. We used to bring cricket balls hidden in our bags. Bringing balls to school was banned. If found the P.E.T staff used to collect them. If even balls are banned how come you get bats. Is that the question in your mind? Cricket bats were manufactured by us in school. We used to break chairs and tables and get a leg of it or an arm of it and used to play with them. So it is obviously indiscipline as per the school. If ever the P.E.T staff come to the ground, we all would run and hide somewhere.

Sometimes for our big hits the ball used to go out of the cricket ground boundary wall which means outside the school premises. Some watchmen would allow us to go outside the gate. Some do not. In that case we would climb the wall, jump over it and fetch the ball. Of course sometimes we would get caught for such activities. We most of the times were successful. There used to be a lot clashes on the cricket field for small small things. Our class B section remained to be a terror till X standard. A lot of notorious activities used to happen. Bunking classes fetched us cleaning the ground. We always used to go and play whenever a staff was on leave. Copying in exams, seeing the original question paper in the staff room were some other thrills practised in our class.

There were three kinds of boys I have felt in my class - who were wanting themselves to be disobedient, who were spending time with girls of the class and the others were very quiet and obedient. I used to move with all kinds of people and mostly I was very much a mix of these three with the third kind more in me. The girls were also quite similar. We did not have any tomboy or tomgirl in our class to my memory. Will continue soon with my studies and other activities in my next post with a better title.