Three people, I still remember...
Although sixteen years have been passed but i still remember the three personalities during my school days. School days are really memorable and i cannot forger the dayts i spent in St Joseph School from class KG to V because of these three people.
The first one is Mr C Thomas, Mrs Maya and Paul Sir. However out of these three, two have never behaved well with me, they scolded me and thrashed with sticks on my bucks, duster on my hand and made me stand up, hands up in classroom for hours. I remember the third one, Paul sir because of his love, concern and pamper even after being a poor fellow. He was our drawing teacher and off course i was perfect in drawing cartoon characters, so he liked my creativity and pampered me too much. Mr C Thomas was our school principal and he always made me stand up for not learning English word meaning and long answers. He assumed me as below average (even worst) fellow in class.
However now at this age, he feel proud of mee and few days back he called me for visiting the school. Now he is happy to know that The Poor Fellow is a journalist and sucessfully doing in her career while the Best (lovable) students of his class are wandering here and there for jobs. Anyway, i'm not criticizing my friends, it is just a real story.
The third person i still remember is Mrs Maya. She was our Math teacher and i used to be poor in remembering Multiplication Tables. She thrased me with thin stick on my bucks very badly :( I was literary crying but she did not care and it was common scene for my classmates. They laughed and mocked me every day but even after beinf scared of her name only, i never learnt the table, so rigid.......hehehehehe :) Everyday i prayed for her absence in school :), never wished to attend his class. However today i can tell you the multiplication table from 2 to 12 without any mistake and credit goes to off course Mrs Maya. If you want to know about her appearance, she was dark and thin with short height. He curly hairs were dark black and she carried Christian cross on herneck, two harizontal lines on her forehead.
Paul sir was bery fair, thin and everyday he carried horrible thin stick on his hand. However he never used that stick, it was just his identification (as we gossiped in class) while Thomas sir was tall, thin, dark-black beard and angry young man. He never carried stick on his hand but was dispirit to punish the students, especially me. He was habitual of sudden visit of classrooms and borrowed sticks from other teachers to punish us.
There was also an old lady, i do not remember her name. She was our Sanskrit teacher and she ounished me almost everyday as i was prone to verbal outburst and talking too much in classroom. I interrupted her while explaining the chapters with so many talks. But sometimes it was not my fault because classmates were too involved in chatting. I had image of 'talking doll' in her class and she punished me for every noise in class without identifying the culprits. I was punished for other's fault too :( How pathetic :(
In oppostite to this, i was most brilliant student of my class from standard VI tio XII. Teachers used to proud of me and they never dared to ask random questions with me as i knew all the answers. I completed homework and learnt the lessons daily. From KG to V, i was weak and careless girl who never completed her homework and never learnt the chapters but from VI to XII, i was brilliant and among toppers :)
