school chalein hum !!!

Another semester has started..I feel fresh and geared up to enter the grind :D

Few weird things I noted on my first few days of school..

Starting of school feels like a new year!! I mean all the jazz about 31st December just fades away.

New session of school marks new shopping. Earlier it used to be new books, bags, water bottles, uniforms, raincoats, notebooks, pencils, pens, lunch boxes and what not. This time I have 2 new teachers and some books only. I hope this makes me the most happening person amongst the school going junta.

I felt so good to sit in my old classrooms. Important discovery sitting in a classroom gives me a totally different high!

I remember every year in school our classrooms would change. And the sitting arrangement too. Till my 4th standard we had the rotation system and one-boy-one-girl on a bench system. Co-ed truly!! Well as I grew up the rules became flexible and I used to hop to grab the last bench. My teachers from high school still remember me as the one from the naughty back benchers' gang! 

The tape is on rewind now. In grad school, I religiously grab the front seats, to understand heavy accents and to make an impression of my sincerity too! (though I quite don't understand the connection :-/)

Another high is meeting old classmates. 

A funny thing I noticed this time, some guys (one of them was my project mate last semester, who talked with us only through mails!!) who were very shy of talking to me last semester (not my fault :P) came up, smiled and said hello. And even asked how my break was. How sweet!! That is a welcome change I must say. 

Back in actual school days, I was more of a family person. The vacations were spent with family and relatives. So meeting school friends was oh-so-exciting! All the talk about classroom gossips - who has got the coolest stickers (I had the habit of making my own till standard 6, so I was a loser in this category), who is the new transfer student and whether she/he is likable or not, who had the most amazing vacation, who studied what (in later years :-/), who has joined tuition, who is the new teacher, which teacher got married, which 'fast-friends' (well, we used to address the inseparable buddies as Fast Friends!!) broke up (:D), who is the new head boy/girl, who is going to be the class monitor (yours truly has an unbeaten record in this category!), was an intimate part of school life.

Well, now new term means new subjects, new projects and new project partners! But meeting friends who have become a family for me now, is the best thing about school life. I mean learning should be first on my priority, but the thought that, there are innumerable helpless souls suffering the pains of a Master's, like me, is very comforting! It's peaceful to know that there are others too.

All this school talk has made me very emotional. If given a thought, I have spent almost one forth (I actually did the calculations, so don't you dare challenge me) of my life in schools/colleges. When I refect back on what I have learnt and what I have gained and what kind of a person I have turned out to be,

I think schools are the best place to grow up and actually not grow up! 

What do you think ?

~nightflier !