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Topic: First Day of School (06/28/04)
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TITLE: A pleasant commotion By Arvind Masireddy 07/05/04 |
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Ah! The teachers are there happily chatting with their colleagues.It seems some new faces also are there.
Where is the principal? Not yet come? Perhaps that black car coming down the road seems to be her's? Yes. It's her's only.She also turned up in a new attire.
A new atmosphere which is common on first day of the school. What a crowd? Overwhelming. Every body is yelling, shouting, laughing and what not? All commotion. A pleasant commotion. I have been witnessing these scenes for the past 75 years. They are nothing new to me.
I pity them. Those first timers are crying. Obviously. Since It's is the first time they are entering into this new world, naturally it will be very difficult for most of them to spend their day in the school with out their mothers. Really pitiable.It's ok.They will get adjusted in due course. Oh! Their mothers are also weeping.very sorry.
A long line of people queued up there waiting for their turn to take the applitaion or to pay the fees. Some of them may have to skip their offices today. And, there, the receptionist struggling with the queries being posed by the visitors. All are very, very busy. Everybody seems to be in a hurry. Everybody is looking fresh.
But what about me? It has been ages since they have painted my walls? And that last room is in a dilapilated condition? some of my windows were broken? All are fresh, happy and jovial. Commotion. A pleasnt commotion.
But will anybody hear me?