Back To School!

Can't you see the couple going to school? ;-)

Teacher: Did you do your homework?

Me: Ma'am....Kiya toh hai par copy ghar pe hi reh gayi....Galti se! 

[Ma'am I had completed the task but I left it at home by mistake!] o_O

Teacher: Stand up on your place and raise your hands. x-(

Me: Ma'am please Ma'am...Sorry na... :-(

Teacher: Class ke bahar ja ke hands up karo! 

[Get out of class and keep your hands raised]

I sob and leave the class while some of my fellow classmates laugh while some others join me soon. 

How many of you can relate this scene to your school days? I guess every one. 

Yesterday I had been to my school to meet my teachers. As I entered the campus, I found myself between a sea of kids running here and there, chasing each-other, having their tiffin, quarreling with each-other, kids asking each other to exchange cycles and other countless things! I was lost in nostalgia :-)

The Board at the Entrance of My School

Things change with time and being at school after nearly three years made me realize it very well. The staff was new & very few faces were familiar. Classrooms had changed with new paint work and new benches. But the noteworthy thing was to see how the kids still designed figures and stuff on their desks as well as on the walls. There were colorful science charts and craft-work decorated almost in every class room. Then there were new notice boards in the corridor and so on.

The only thing that was untouched was the bronze bell! It was and is still used for ringing the end of a lecture, recess break and beginning and end of the working day! Felt amazing to see that after so long! I was tempted to ring it but just when I was about to do so, the old caretaker whom we used to call Coin-Box [he had some kind of injury mark on his shining bald head] caught me and yelled at me. I smiled and apologized for that. Though I was still looking for an opportunity to ring that but he never left the place! :-(

As I walked towards the exit I found myself lost in those golden days, those childish activities and pranks that we used to do in the school days...

1. Ye dekh mera naya school bag, Spider-Man wala! Pata hai isme 6 kappe hai ! 

[Hey! Check out my new  Spider-man school bag! Do you know it has 6 compartments]

2. Meri pencil teri pencil se zyada badi hai. Dekha!

[My pencil is better than yours]

3. Pata hai, Papa ne mujhe nayi cycle le ke di hai, 18 gears wali!

[Do you know Dad brough me a new 18 speed cycle!]

4. Are tune home work complete kiya kya? Mujhe dena chaapne!

[Did you complete the home work? I need to copy ]

5. Tere paas Contra-Force ka cassette hai kya? Hoga toh mere Double Dragon ke saath exchange kar na yaar!

[Do you have the game Contra Force? If so please exchange it with my Double Dragon.]

6. Mere paas Undertaker ka latest tattoo hai....Exchange karta kya 5 tattoo pe!

[I have the rare tattoo of Undertaker! Wanna exchange it against 5 tattoo of yours?]

7. Playing foot ball with a small rubber ball and after the end of the match the winning team would keep singing in chorus "Hip Hip Hurray" and the losing team would keep shouting " Tumhari Team Chidki! Tumhari team Chidki!

[The losing team would try to satisfy itself by accsuing the other team of cheating]

8. Tune maa ko gaali diya na! Bahar mil tu..Dikhata tujhe!

[How dare you use a slang against my mother! Just meet me outside the campus I will show you!]

9. Making ghost stories , cooking up tales of bravery and how the school was situated on a grave yard! 

10. Trying to finish writing an exam before any one else with most number of supplements.

11. Kal ka Dragon Ball Z dekha kya? Goku ne Vegeta ko hara diya "Ka-Me-Ha-Me-Haa" se!

[Did you watch the last episode of Dragon Ball Z? Goku defeats Vegeta!]

12. Teasing each-other against father's name or some silly ridiculous nick names.

13. Locking your friend in the girls' washroom and then running away. Only to be caught later and thrashed by the teachers.

14. Bunking the lectures in the name of drama, elocution or some other competition.

15. And the best one ever: Ma'am I AM absent yesterday!

[Focus on the word 'AM' 

What he actually wanted to say was- I WAS absent yesterday.]

The list is endless and so are the memories. They were really the best days of our lives. At least we didn't have to bother about getting a job or coping up with relationship troubles. Though i guess all of us had one or more crushes during our school days...I had many! ;-)

Cheers!