Down the memory lane- Back to school

The best days of my life were spent in the classrooms and grounds of PSBB, KK Nagar. I would give anything to go back to that simple, uncomplicated and heavenly life. Still, looking back, there were times when I wouldn’t want to go to school, for silly reasons. I was always in a hurry to grow up. Looking back on some of the funny things that made our lives more interesting, funny and memorable.
This post is dedicated to all of us who went to school, and in particular to all psbbians, for they can relate to my post better! Cheers !!

1. Having to walk around with the constant fear that someone might say ‘kaa’ to you for some weird f?!@!&*ng reason and then you’d have to sit quietly waiting for the person to say ‘pazham’ again. Am so glad adults don’t behave that way.
2. Get excited about having similar, wait almost the same swim suit as your buddy, and everyone asking if you were sisters.
3. Getting teased with EVERY guy in the class. Wait, I think it was EVERY guy.
4. ‘Minding’ the class, and writing down the names of those kids who talked. What crap. And having to report it to the teacher.
5. Mindless gossip, that for some freaking weird reason always got to the teachers, and then having to hear them advise us on it.
6. Silly, mindless, useless and absolutely worthless project work.
7. Anniversary- that heartless bitch that used to visit us every year. They used to make us join the ‘celebrations’ by force. Threatening that we wont get internals. They made me say ‘govinda govinda’ one year. I was a crocodile one year, and a deer the other. The horror. The absolute horror.
8. Post anniversary- writing a freaking test on it! Come on! How absolutely ridiculous was that!
9. When there were people around you who used o get 99% in every other subject in every other exam, and still complain about how they didn’t do well. :P
10. Cycle tests. I never understood why it was called so. It wasn’t like we were sitting on cycles and writing them. Nor was it cyclical. It was at regular intervals. It didn’t make a circle, did it?
11. Oh they used to give us circulars, and ask parents to sign it. Nothing great. Asking for 5 rs for some thing. So we had to get 5 rs and get the freakin paper signed. And the class leader would collect it.
12. Assemblies. I think the entire veda was recited. No kidding. Prayers went on for 1 hour.
13. Guys wouldn’t talk to us. Funny right. Standing in a line, its pretty obvious that some guy has to stand behind some girl or vice versa. The girl wouldn’t usually have a problem, but the guys would leave a metre gap before standing behind the girl, any girl.
14. They suddenly got an idea akin to cycle tests- was called slip tests. We wrote on slips of paper. That’s it. Very unimaginative, wouldn’t you say?
15. Raksha bandhan days. The horror. If you were teased with a guy, and you didn’t like him, you were expected to tie it. Sadly that concept continues. A girl and boy cannot be friends. They have to be girl friend boy friend or they have to be brother sister. Never got the logic.
16. There was a time when saying ‘ok snubbed’ was a rage. I didn’t have any other vocabulary then.
17. He he. There was even something called line leaders. Lol. They had leaders for everything.
18. Sanskrit classes- I am so glad I don’t have to wish Fridays don’t exist. We had to ‘converse’ in Sanskrit those days. Partha sir, mohan sir! Hats off! They always made our classes hilarious, for different reasons of course!
19. Waiting for the school bus at freaking 7 30 am in the morning. And carrying millions of bags. The book bag, the lunch bag, then some plastic cover for the exam pad, the swimming suit. Felt like some porter.
20. They made everyone dance. Even completely ungraceful and butter fingery clumsy people like me. That too, that dance with the pot on the head. Forget what its called. They made us bring pots with mud in it. And my parents used to think it was a big deal. There was this time I had left it at home on purpose, but my dad chased the school bus all the way down till duraisamy subway to give it to me. Never felt so embarrassed in my life. Ever.
21. They had competitions for everything. It doesn’t feel too great to go over some of the books that say- ‘awarded to Miss Indu R for being first in yoga’. Lol. No one would believe it now. And look at me now. No, don’t hope even for a second that I will use this as a platform to tell you how much I weigh. No way in freaking hell.
22. But the best part was the vetti days, 3 days for anniversary, 3 days for project, science day, sports day, this day, that day. lol everything was a big deal. That’s why as I have already mentioned earlier, we wrote post tests on everything. He he.
23. Western music classes were fun though, sitting under the trees in the field and singing ‘kookoburrah sits on a old gum tree’ :P Samuel sir, if I remember right. Lovely days.
24. Oh I almost forgot the best part. Sharing a bench with the ‘partner’. Inevitably it used to be a person of the opposite sex. And he would draw a line exactly at the centre and say this half is mine and the other half yours. So my pencil cannot touch that side. If it does, there would be a blown up argument, with whatever word was in fashion then.
25. Losing pens , pencils and erasers everyday. Getting the protractor scratched.  it used to bother me to no end. My friends would be amused seeing me despair over a lost eraser.