Just Another Day at School? Really?

School is fun for most people, boring for others while just plain annoying for very few. Everyone has a different 'typical day at school'. Just another one of those days at school. I was thinking about my 'typical day at school' and i just realized how much fun it is!

Our bus (28) reaches school by 7.45 pm. Our driver - as sweet as he is - HAS TO reach school as one of the first five buses and win his 'Race to School'. This is a proven fact. Usually, our bus is 1st or 2nd. When he reaches school 3rd or even later, the next day most of the people end up missing their bus cause he lands up coming 5-7minutes earlier, i guess so that he can win 'the race.

Once we reach school, the 10 minutes before assembly are usually spent in completing last minute homework or just sitting and talking until the prefects come and tell, rather FORCE:p us to go down. Well, assembly was, is and will always be BORING whether it's in the quadrangle, hall (depends) and field. Nowadays, we have the daily torture of marchpast after assembly also, so mornings pretty much suck except for the weather. After the daily trudgery of marchpast, i usually go to the swimming pool area where i find Mr. Dil Bahadur (sp??) and congratulate him on his AMAZING bagpipes. He looked positively shocked the first time i told him he rocked at bagpipes - i felt so bad because it seemed like no one ever gives him any recognition for all his work.

Anyway, the 10 minutes before first period in my class are like a chaotic jungle. Yes, those are the right words - the chaotic jungle of 9G1! Some people are immersed in their homework and in collecting the registers etc, while others have more interesting activities to do such as
a) throwing paper balls
b) throwing pencil boxes
c) on rare occasions, throwing the duster (watch out for your heads people..)
d) dancing at the back of the class (Aparna, Prerna, Shruthi, Bhavi and Sakina are usually involved in that :)!)
e) laughing, laughing AND a little more laughing!
f) Oh, yes - just sitting down and relaxing while paper balls fly above your head and a pencil box narrowly misses hitting your ear.
g) and, one of the most frequently occuring sounds heard in 9G1 - PEOPLE SINGING! It's all the time, during classes, during break and lunch, during prep - you can always hear people humming : the leader always being Vedhika (:p) followed by many others, eg : aparna, prerna, manali, sakina, shruthi and I.

Classes are usually boring and fun at the same time. For example, i was drawing in my textbook when Aparna randomly grabbed a pen and threw it at me. So then i threw it back. Remember, class is still going on and the teacher's still talking. So then Manali joins us in the throwing of pens - except she decides to use her pencil box as ammunition and me as her target. So, class is going on - we're throwing things around and laughing. Since laughter is contagious, we soon had the whole class giggling even though it wasn't funny.

Today we sang the same song loudly - "When i get braces, i shall smile ; Cause i don't care what the world thinks!!!!!" Sagari and I sang this song as a duo with Sagari adding "about me" - so the song became, "When I get braces I shall smile, cause i don't care what the world thinks," And then Sagari goes, "About meeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!" Oh, and my innovative lyrics - i'm preparing myself:):):)!

Lunch is another awesome time of the day! Rayna, Rishika, Aparna, Yesha.A, Shruthi, Krishna, Sakina and I usually go for duty to the 3rd and 4th grade classes. My class - usually 4C - is fun! Rayna and I mind that class and they're fun - Jonathan, Aditya, Mahir etc. I think one of the funniest moments during lunch is when Rayna and I walk back to class 5minutes before the bell rings. We walk till the white platform towards the girls' wing in the quadrangle and then Rayna ALWAYS says, "noo! I want to run!!" Then we walk back till like the middle of the quadrangle and run to class. Ask Rayna for an explanation to her sudden love for sprinting.

There are certain moments that school would be incomplete without (in random order) -

'The Deaf One' aka Aparna the great.
She sits one foot away from me and yet when i call her, she can't hear. When Prerna, Yesha, Muskan and I call her together also she can't hear. Tsk tsk, she only responds when i throw an erasor at her.

Prerna and her laughter.
When Prerna laughs, everyone usually starts laughing with her. Her laughter is amazingly contagious!

Bhavi and her Filmy FILMY dialogues.
Today Leona and I are sitting in Library and talking about the pilot - uttapam - idli - dosa joke invented by Nikita the great (Why did the plane crash into the mountains? Beacuse the pilot was an idli). IS THAT FUNNY?????? Anyway, Bhavi was laughing and laughing so Lee jokingly said, "Maybe if we throw a pencil at her, she'll stop laughing." Bhavi's oh-so-amazing response, "NOO! Throw apples, i can eat them!" My reaction, "????????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Rishika's jokes about my height.
I LOVE Rishi's jokes about my height cause they're always funny and i know she never means it:)!

Rayna's view of the quadrangle from the class. Rayna has the most perfect view of the quadrangle from 9G and she sits there and stares out at the ever-stretching and vast (excuse the portrayal of our quad as a beautiful landscape) green quadrangle. She told me first about why she loves staring at the quad - it's beacuse the quad is so ful of activity and there's no place for emptiness but then it's all empty again and you feel the emptiness. It's how you feel sometimes. Those are Rayna's amazingly philosophical words.

Sakina's "SHUT UP!". Everyone's telling the class to shut up, the monitors, prefects - everyone. Finally, a very pissed-off Sak lifts her head up and yells, "SHUT UP!!" and a pin-drop silence(VERY RARE) prevails in 9G1. LOL!

Muskan's "jackass". The day cannot go by without Muskan using the word, jackass ATLEAST 10 times (NO EXAGGERATION, ask anybody).

Mini's 101 songs and dances and our joint "YO MAMA" that the entire 9th Grade girls side knows about now:D:D:D!!

Shruthi's cute little cartoons - aww!

Bhavani's new comic series (which is going to be A HUGE HIT by the way). Bhavani's comic series, known as, "Harry Gutter in Warthogs," is one of the most creative masterpieces i have seen. An adaptation (and a 13 above version lol) of Harry Potter. It is entirely and wonderfully illustrated by her.

Manali's and Bhavani's paper ball - throwing fixation.

Malavika's laugh. I love Malavika's laugh - i can hear it a mile away and i swear it makes me laugh too!

Sagari's laugh!!!!

C.A. classes!!! Commerce people know what i mean;)!


School is such an awesome place (if only there were no studies!) !!! It's like a place to chill out with friends and just be happy. Everyday is more exciting - it's not just another day at school...