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.

My schooling - II

My fourth standard found me a new girl competitor. She was a beautiful brilliant girl from a minority religion of India. She is doing her studies in medicine when I am writing this blog. I liked her very much. I do not want to attribute any word like "crush" etc. as it was a very young age and I am quite bold enough to tell the same to the girl today. I would still like her! There are so many indefinable relations I have felt.

Fifth standard was a totally dark classroom. The classroom had a pigeon's nest and the classroom was always stinking. They closed windows always to avoid the birds. The bird would give some strange sounds and the class would burst into laughter. Many of our classes have got cancelled because of this reason. We would chant Bhagavad Gita in those classes or play some games. I am really having a very poor memory of these primary classes and this should be acceptable as it was more than ten years ago.

There was a boy in the primary school. He was quite a genius. His mother was a teacher in our school. He was consistently topping the class. Me and my friend always used to look at him with awe and also make fun of him. It never mattered to me as I never was topping the class.

Sixth standard, I was shifted section from A to B. In A section, the staff felt there was too much elitism and wanted to have it balanced in both the sections. The toppers were shuffled. I got first rank in my sixth standard first exams. After that what happened, I never secured first rank. B section was totally totally a fun-filled classroom. We started playing cricket regularly. Everyday in breaks, lunch and in the evening after school.

Sixth standard, the uniform changes. Boys wear full-pants. That gave us a great feeling. Boys were not allowed to use the school van service from sixth. But they permitted me as I had my sister in the KG. So what and all I did outside the school in those times. Let me continue in my next post. Will write soon!!