Its June 1st week!!! The week when most of the schools re-open :)..

Its one of the days, when most of the school students feel sad to wake up early and dress up in uniform instead of their colorful casual wears... and most parents feel good about it!!
Its the day when students feel excited to meet their chommies while parents sense the serene silence at home for few hours;)

Recalled my school days where most of the language teachers asked us to write an essay or letter, narrating abt the way we spent our vacation...... That used to be confusing situation to me and my friends coz sometimes we were landing up with attending functions of far relatives wedding or some 60th yr birthday celebration or house warming or thread ceremonies!!!....and that was the time when we hardly knew who were our relatives...........! and so we didn't know what to draft in the essay coz it seemed as though we attended some unknown peoples function!!!
Few students used to write abt their summer camp experience...or some students would go on a trip and would write in lengths abt their experience!!! which sounded really interesting...
While this was the situation with our language teachers, our co subjects teachers were still clever!! They used to call for a surprise dictation from the new syllabus coz they assumed we were book worms (i guess) and we might have opened the new book while binding and labelling them and read it partly!!
Dictation on few basic words like "arteries, digestive system, brain, diodes, chemicals etc was manageable...but terms like psychaitrist,etymology were like (uurrrrrggggg...what on earth did they mean!!!) The geography test was a terror coz we were asked to either spell the rare fauna and floras names!! or spell the names of places like Tierra, Massachusetts etc!!! (All we prayed was -> Oh god plz make us get 9/25 coz 9 was the pass marks)

The 2nd day used to be cursive writing and some paragraph writing just to get our handwriting in sync after the vacation.....and co-subjects teachers were making us write the spellings of the complicated words 20 times!!!

Maths was fun for a week coz there was no test as such... only reciting tables till 20 or we were asked to solve few lengthy multiplication problems.. :)

The PT sessions were just doing enough to tan our skin after the vacation... and in my case, i used to forget the next step in the exercise session!!! While all of us were busy struggling to move our hands and legs for exercise........It was the PT sir who was over enthusiatic to train us!!

Somehow things was getting better for all of us after a weeks time :) All thanks to the school days for making so many days memorable.....

4 comments:

Prashanth said...

True Prathima, schooldays are those which one cannot forget.

Frankly, given a second chance, I never wanna get out of Skoooooool :D

Suresh Kumar said...

Nowadays kids have the best way to write their summer assignments.. My sisters son - 8th standard boy referred wikipedia.

Balbheem said...

Enjoyed your post!!
@Suresh, I agree with you on student learning from wikipedia.

More advanced is the technology, person interact less with the surrounding people! I wonder where shall the next generation head?

SidhuKarthik said...

You made to recollect some of my memorable thoughts of my school life after a long period; nice.

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