Now that I've been working almost closer to two years, I sometimes go back to past and smile over thinking about my golden school days.
I've studied in various Kendriya Vidyalaya (K.V) schools over a period of 15 years and the experience has been amazing. There are countless memories related to my school. So, I have decided to jot down few of them, and if you are a KVian, you might agree with me.
So, shooting off:
1. School starting at 7.30am and you have to get through the main gate at least 5 minutes prior to the time. Even a minute late, and you have to stand in "late line", which was by the way, super fun. :D
2. I sort of miss waiting for my school bus at my "STOPPAGE" and frantically searching for a window seat. Last seats were reserved exclusively for senior high school kids and few of the front ones for teachers.
3. Wearing white shirt with navy blue skirt, and later on advancing to wearing navy blue kameez with white dupatta and salwaar (for girls) and for guys, wearing white shirt with navy blue half pants (boys crib a lot for that!!!) and later as they advance to senior high school, half pants grow into full pants.. And yeah, no full sleeved shirts for either of the sex.
The one thing that dreaded girls was "RED RIBBON". Even if your hair has grown little below your ears, you have to tie them into two braids on either side... Naah Naa... Red Rubber Bands are not enough. Uniform checking was done by prefects or monitors during morning assembly. If you forget your ribbon, borrow from other class girls.
4. Every Wednesday/Thursday, white uniform. You should remember to wear your white uniform on that day, otherwise a separate queue would be waiting for you (making you look like an outcast). On this day, we would have our PT exercise drill session by PET Sir.
5. Morning assembly programmes were super boring. With the beat of drum, you have to march in to the assembly ground from respective classes. You have to stand according to class and section wise, height wise with "ONE HAND DISTANCE" in a straight line.
I miss our morning prayer ("...Daya karna hamaari aatma mein shuddhta dena....."). Our pledge in English, Hindi and Sanskrit, where girls used to add in few more words, so as not to offend their future husband - "...All Indians are my brothers and sisters..." and you could hear few girls whispering "except for my future husband".
Then we would have Thought for the day, followed by News, and then a special presentation (which could be anything- a poem, a small skit, dance, song..) and would ultimately end the assembly programme by singing our National Anthem.
Saturdays include singing of community songs like, "Bharat ka swarnim gaurav kendriya vidyalaya laayega....", "Hind desh ke nivaashi...", "Aata ootavu saare raan...", "Ae maati re, mora maate...", etc.
6. Greeting teacher in chorus, when they enter classroom "Gooooooooooooood Mooooooooorninggggggggg Maaaaaadam/Siiiiiiir". First period was always taken by class teacher who used to spend half an hour in taking attendance, and chances are we used to forget saying "Yes Madam/Present Madam".
7. Having separate CW (classwork) and HW (homework) notebooks and carrying them daily to school, apart from text book, rough book and school diary.
8. My excuse for not doing homework were either - "There was no power at home last evening" or "Dad came back from office late last evening".. Now when I think of it, it's hard to understand the correlation between my dad's late arrival and incompletion of homework.. lol... :D
9. Having two breaks- small break for washroom purpose and a long break for lunch. We used to finish our lunch like godspeed during small break and play during lunch break..
10. If a teacher wasn't present, it was the duty of the monitor to maintain silence and discipline in the class. Writing names of those who were found talking, on the blackboard. Making a guy sit beside a girl or vice versa as a form of punishment.
11. Playing Name/Place/Animal/Thing during free periods.
12. Copying down blindly from blackboard written by teacher without any understanding and if you fall behind in speed, it used get erased by duster and then, disturb friends to copy down the rest.
13. Eagerly waiting to hear "End Period Bell".
14. Practicing March Past for Republic Day and Independence Day.
15. Hard to forget our school Houses:
Tagore House
Ashok House
Raman House
Subhash House
In some KVs, instead of the above we had:
Ganga House
Brahmaputra House
Cauvery House
Narmada House
16. The worst day for any KVian is 31st March, day of results. Your heart beating fast when class teacher gives away report cards one by one.
17. Happily skip classes to attend rehearsals for any school function.
18. Roaming around the corridors in the pretext of going to washroom.
19. 11th grade students eagerly waiting to become teacher just for one day, on Teacher's day.
20. Waiting for that one day, apart from birthday, when we could wear casual dresses without any restriction - Children's Day.
21. Having cotton candy or stick pepsi after school hours.
22. Always forget to carry scissor and other stationary stuffs for S.U.P.W classes.
23. Parents Teacher Meeting more scarier than a horror movie.
The list goes on and on. No matter what, nothing can beat like sweet memories of school days.
I've studied in various Kendriya Vidyalaya (K.V) schools over a period of 15 years and the experience has been amazing. There are countless memories related to my school. So, I have decided to jot down few of them, and if you are a KVian, you might agree with me.
So, shooting off:
1. School starting at 7.30am and you have to get through the main gate at least 5 minutes prior to the time. Even a minute late, and you have to stand in "late line", which was by the way, super fun. :D
2. I sort of miss waiting for my school bus at my "STOPPAGE" and frantically searching for a window seat. Last seats were reserved exclusively for senior high school kids and few of the front ones for teachers.
3. Wearing white shirt with navy blue skirt, and later on advancing to wearing navy blue kameez with white dupatta and salwaar (for girls) and for guys, wearing white shirt with navy blue half pants (boys crib a lot for that!!!) and later as they advance to senior high school, half pants grow into full pants.. And yeah, no full sleeved shirts for either of the sex.
The one thing that dreaded girls was "RED RIBBON". Even if your hair has grown little below your ears, you have to tie them into two braids on either side... Naah Naa... Red Rubber Bands are not enough. Uniform checking was done by prefects or monitors during morning assembly. If you forget your ribbon, borrow from other class girls.
4. Every Wednesday/Thursday, white uniform. You should remember to wear your white uniform on that day, otherwise a separate queue would be waiting for you (making you look like an outcast). On this day, we would have our PT exercise drill session by PET Sir.
5. Morning assembly programmes were super boring. With the beat of drum, you have to march in to the assembly ground from respective classes. You have to stand according to class and section wise, height wise with "ONE HAND DISTANCE" in a straight line.
I miss our morning prayer ("...Daya karna hamaari aatma mein shuddhta dena....."). Our pledge in English, Hindi and Sanskrit, where girls used to add in few more words, so as not to offend their future husband - "...All Indians are my brothers and sisters..." and you could hear few girls whispering "except for my future husband".
Then we would have Thought for the day, followed by News, and then a special presentation (which could be anything- a poem, a small skit, dance, song..) and would ultimately end the assembly programme by singing our National Anthem.
Saturdays include singing of community songs like, "Bharat ka swarnim gaurav kendriya vidyalaya laayega....", "Hind desh ke nivaashi...", "Aata ootavu saare raan...", "Ae maati re, mora maate...", etc.
6. Greeting teacher in chorus, when they enter classroom "Gooooooooooooood Mooooooooorninggggggggg Maaaaaadam/Siiiiiiir". First period was always taken by class teacher who used to spend half an hour in taking attendance, and chances are we used to forget saying "Yes Madam/Present Madam".
7. Having separate CW (classwork) and HW (homework) notebooks and carrying them daily to school, apart from text book, rough book and school diary.
8. My excuse for not doing homework were either - "There was no power at home last evening" or "Dad came back from office late last evening".. Now when I think of it, it's hard to understand the correlation between my dad's late arrival and incompletion of homework.. lol... :D
9. Having two breaks- small break for washroom purpose and a long break for lunch. We used to finish our lunch like godspeed during small break and play during lunch break..
10. If a teacher wasn't present, it was the duty of the monitor to maintain silence and discipline in the class. Writing names of those who were found talking, on the blackboard. Making a guy sit beside a girl or vice versa as a form of punishment.
11. Playing Name/Place/Animal/Thing during free periods.
12. Copying down blindly from blackboard written by teacher without any understanding and if you fall behind in speed, it used get erased by duster and then, disturb friends to copy down the rest.
13. Eagerly waiting to hear "End Period Bell".
14. Practicing March Past for Republic Day and Independence Day.
15. Hard to forget our school Houses:
Tagore House
Ashok House
Raman House
Subhash House
In some KVs, instead of the above we had:
Ganga House
Brahmaputra House
Cauvery House
Narmada House
16. The worst day for any KVian is 31st March, day of results. Your heart beating fast when class teacher gives away report cards one by one.
17. Happily skip classes to attend rehearsals for any school function.
18. Roaming around the corridors in the pretext of going to washroom.
19. 11th grade students eagerly waiting to become teacher just for one day, on Teacher's day.
20. Waiting for that one day, apart from birthday, when we could wear casual dresses without any restriction - Children's Day.
21. Having cotton candy or stick pepsi after school hours.
22. Always forget to carry scissor and other stationary stuffs for S.U.P.W classes.
23. Parents Teacher Meeting more scarier than a horror movie.
The list goes on and on. No matter what, nothing can beat like sweet memories of school days.
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