9. Two statues outside the museum..
Class 9 had a disastrous start for us.. few of closest classmates like Vijju, Avinash, Tija.. among many others were thrown into the newly created E section. Lots of attempts failed to get them back to the best B section!! However, that year was arguably one of the best years in school for most of us.. as Vijju had confessed recently that section had helped him a great deal in 'all manners'... you should be intelligent enough to guess what he meant by that!
What follows is just one more of those memorable experiences... some where in between the academic year, we had an excursion to Nagarjuna sagar dam. When we started from school, Vijju and Avi joined us in our bus while the rest of their section was in another bus. The class teacher of their section, Ms.Geetha was very friendly and was our class teacher in Class 2. For her it was pretty obvious that these guys would be along with us.. and she never had any objection.
On the way, we had good fun.. occupied the last three rows of the bus.. Naveen, twins, Uday, Tija, myself, Sastry and many of whom I missed here, were there.. we got some cards from the bus driver (thanks to me) and had a long journey till there. I remember sleeping in the last seat of the bus and infact I fell down while i was sleeping.. :P
At the Nagarjuna Sagar, we got into a boat and went to some island.. don't ask me what was there.. we never cared! After reaching there, a head count was taken.. Vijju and Avi were there in the E section lines for the second time during day.. then we were taken into a museum, all it had was the statues.. half of them didn't have heads while the others didn't have limbs... it was boring, to say the least! Then Vijju puts himself into work.. he calls me, uday and Avi and says "lets go have something..". And 4 of us silently slipped out of the museum, went to the nearby canteen and had some samosa and followed by a drink. When we were done, we started back and then vijju says, "You go ahead, i will have something more and come"... explainable from his apetite and his liking for food. Vijju and Avi stayed back..
As the rest of the students came out of the museum, Uday and myself joined the lines and all of it went unnoticed. Then a head count was taken, 2 boys missing from the E section.. Geetha ma'am came straight to me and asked were they were. My reply was a broken line.. I don't know.. she knew I was lying. Meanwhile, these fellows were seen walking back casually and one teacher after the other took turns to shout at them... it was funny, and even more funny when we thought of how we had escaped. After the drama, Dattatreya sir was asked to take care of them... and..
Both of them were made to kneel down in the lawn, infront of the museum, in school uniform, at a tourist centre for about an hour... photographs were taken of them not only by us but also by tens and hundreds of other visitors. No one passed by with out laughing at them.. it was fun, it was humiliation, it was one of the golden moments...
If you were ever talking about interesting punishments, I can bet on two things - this would be right on the top and the second, Vijju would figure in every single event of that list..
Lots more to be written...
--buddi
2340
04 - 03 - 2009
Class 9 had a disastrous start for us.. few of closest classmates like Vijju, Avinash, Tija.. among many others were thrown into the newly created E section. Lots of attempts failed to get them back to the best B section!! However, that year was arguably one of the best years in school for most of us.. as Vijju had confessed recently that section had helped him a great deal in 'all manners'... you should be intelligent enough to guess what he meant by that!
What follows is just one more of those memorable experiences... some where in between the academic year, we had an excursion to Nagarjuna sagar dam. When we started from school, Vijju and Avi joined us in our bus while the rest of their section was in another bus. The class teacher of their section, Ms.Geetha was very friendly and was our class teacher in Class 2. For her it was pretty obvious that these guys would be along with us.. and she never had any objection.
On the way, we had good fun.. occupied the last three rows of the bus.. Naveen, twins, Uday, Tija, myself, Sastry and many of whom I missed here, were there.. we got some cards from the bus driver (thanks to me) and had a long journey till there. I remember sleeping in the last seat of the bus and infact I fell down while i was sleeping.. :P
At the Nagarjuna Sagar, we got into a boat and went to some island.. don't ask me what was there.. we never cared! After reaching there, a head count was taken.. Vijju and Avi were there in the E section lines for the second time during day.. then we were taken into a museum, all it had was the statues.. half of them didn't have heads while the others didn't have limbs... it was boring, to say the least! Then Vijju puts himself into work.. he calls me, uday and Avi and says "lets go have something..". And 4 of us silently slipped out of the museum, went to the nearby canteen and had some samosa and followed by a drink. When we were done, we started back and then vijju says, "You go ahead, i will have something more and come"... explainable from his apetite and his liking for food. Vijju and Avi stayed back..
As the rest of the students came out of the museum, Uday and myself joined the lines and all of it went unnoticed. Then a head count was taken, 2 boys missing from the E section.. Geetha ma'am came straight to me and asked were they were. My reply was a broken line.. I don't know.. she knew I was lying. Meanwhile, these fellows were seen walking back casually and one teacher after the other took turns to shout at them... it was funny, and even more funny when we thought of how we had escaped. After the drama, Dattatreya sir was asked to take care of them... and..
Both of them were made to kneel down in the lawn, infront of the museum, in school uniform, at a tourist centre for about an hour... photographs were taken of them not only by us but also by tens and hundreds of other visitors. No one passed by with out laughing at them.. it was fun, it was humiliation, it was one of the golden moments...
If you were ever talking about interesting punishments, I can bet on two things - this would be right on the top and the second, Vijju would figure in every single event of that list..
Lots more to be written...
--buddi
2340
04 - 03 - 2009
hilarious... I remember, Indu Mani ma'am made us do frog walk in the new blocks' corridor. That was another embarrassment. But was justified, since we plucked out all the petals from the flower in her bun.
ReplyDeletehahaha I remember this incident!!And i felt terrible for them as they were made to kneel down..i remember bits and pieces of the trip..the sweltering heat was one of them...i think we missed the first boat coz these guys were missing or something hehe not quite sure..but yea the teachers became quite strict with all of us after that incident!!
ReplyDeletehehe... if you weren't allowed to be mischievous blame Vijju (though you should agree that you weren't capable of handling the teachers!!)... he was the one who set the standards!
ReplyDeleteAs Uday pointed out... the highlight of this incident was when the teachers threatened that the photograph will be published in the school magazine Shraddha... and all four names figured in that year's issue but for better reasons..
This post brought back so many memories of school for me. I remember the Nagarjun Sagar trip too, obviously for reasons entirely different from yours. But then, that's how school was...it gave different and wonderful moments to everybody.
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