the first incident that came to my mind on my school days was this.
well, all my schooling from 2nd std to 12 th std was done in a small town ( my dad loves to call it semi urban !!) called rajapalayam. it is 2 hours drive from madurai..all in tamilnadu.
so i joined a small school in 2nd std, and that was quite a modest one by all means. nothing much i can remember of that. then for the 3rd std, i got into the best school in that town, chinmaya vidyalaya. this was the best , coz they insisted that u spoke in english, which was unheard of in that part of the world..and i was going to learn hindi :-) .
anyway, so the little girl (me!!) trotted into the class on the first day and sat down. (now comes the best part. ). the teacher asked us all to take out the notebooks and guess what this stupid one took out?? a big, black slate !! the whole class burst into laughter. even the teacher was amazed. even in that small town, people didn't bring slates to school and that too in the 3rd std.
i still don't know if it was my parents who asked to take that or me. but the first day was such a big embarrassment and i was in tears. and to top it all i was in the wrong section and asked to leave halfway through the class.
whew..so much for the first day !! :-)
3 comments:
hey li'l girl... having been in a puny "semi-urban" school for a couple o' years and takin' out a slate in Chinmaya is not stupid...
hmm... little girls grow big and now wield palmtops and write blogs :)
and hey, u started schooling only in 2nd std???
hmm...that was funny ;) i told u it was not in any chronological order..
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