Sizzling Razzmatazz!!!!!

Hey! Dears-I know it’s been a really long time since we’ve met...was bogged down with health issues-Now with things seeming to be picking up...jus' going down the memory-lane along with you’ll:cheers
So, come get ready for the cruise!!!


*‘Twas jus’ like yesterday..it seemed as if I’d joined this Residential School I’m working in!!

But my God how many weird experiences..how many cherishable ones at that?!!? These 8 years here have fascinating every minute, thanks to the lil’ angels and cherubs who coloured my life, with a million strokes of a Master-Artist!!

Here I’m to narrate my very first day here:----
Lovely ambience, Sky-scraping domes, Sprawling acres and acres of greenery, Air-conditioned Class-rooms, you name it they’d have it!


*After a stint at the neighbourhood Matriculation School that was similar to a huge ocean-one cannot even wade through the congested and highly populated campus-and well here, the scenario was entirely different:
‘Twas like literally being on a stage and watched over by a thousand spectators!!!!!

Previously I used to be conscientious only about what I had to teach..what must my children learn..what could be the probable teaching-aids et al; But now added to that I had to be ‘extra-conscientious’ about my wardrobe-stiffly starched cotton sarees were simply a ‘no-no’; I had to switch over to soft silks like Tussar, for the suave, elegant look and a little care had to go towards some neat pieces of accessories as well!

In fact at our very first staff-meeting our Principal went to emphasize on the decorum and dress-etiquette as we had to be our best before the NRI Parent-Clan.


*The ‘best part’ of the day..and an almost unforgettable ‘Memoir’ was from the children’s’ side!!!!
Having been accustomed to students who would be reverential and passive at the previous school-here I was in for a terrible shock: Most of them, it seemed as if they were away from home, on a ‘Picnic’..there wasn’t the slightest trace of interest to either listen to the teacher, nor to study!!To top it the Korean Cutie-Pies made it mandatory that they never would get up and wish a ‘Good Morning’ when the teacher enters her class-room!

Fine..I always convinced myself that they never believed in showing respect in this traditional manner..but probably would display their affection to me in some way or the other;


*And Lo! They ‘did show their affection’ in a never-to-be-heard-way:_
There was this Korean boy, called Hongue-one look at him will not be enough to fathom his real interior..you would simply be fooled by his innocent look and that squinty eyes shining as if two black ships in the harbor..or at least that’s what made me run into his ‘trap’!!!

Mind you! Please see to it when you teach a Korean…check your vicinity and scan the entire class-room…to see if there are any Lizards—


*I was a feverishly excited lady at the ‘mind-boggling’ prospects of having to teach in a beautiful and aesthetic International School..

Stepped inside the class-room with the same feverish excitement…….only to come out the very next second, with another kind of ‘feverish excitement’;
I’m sure by now you would have guessed what was gleefully ‘thrown’ on me by that happy-go-lucky’ boy in Master Hongue!

*{The same Hongue when he left School..how he had parted with me in tears in his eyes..is a different story all together, which perhaps I would tell you in a subsequent blog.}


*Anyways you know I always would want to start the class with a game to make them eager to pursue the class as well as be an active listener. So I decided to make them at ease with a game of going around the class and naming all the nouns {my first venture was teaching Grammar to the Koreans}..then they would one by one come up to the board and classify them as to what kind of noun each one is…}

I never knew when the class-room which was just a while ago visited by the Principal..then as silent as a grave..suddenly could turn out to be so Violent and AAAAAAACTIVE:
I literally was standing there dumb-founded while the children were happily almost on a ‘Merry-Go-Round’.
The ‘loveliest part’ of it all---was the sudden entry of our Director Sir –normally they told me he never has any connections with the Academic Block..and lo! Should his ‘connection to the Academic Block’ start only on this so very ‘Hot & Happening Eventful Day for me’????


*His entry – the children scattered in all eight different directions-I for my part blinking and standing near the white board-‘my Hongue’ was always unique you see:
He was standing on the window-sill-which I promise I never knew when he’d climbed?!

Imagine my first day me being handed over a memo by the Director.
-Will Sizzle!

 

Hey! Dears,

The past few days were sort of too turbulent with certain health issues …to bother me-there was one person who apart from the members of my family...from this IL Family who had stood me in good stead during these times:-
It’s none other than, our Legendary Writer Par Excellence in Varalotti Sir!!!
I can’t even begin thanking him for the kindness he displayed!!
Jus’ to throw some cheer on to me he even had opened a thread in my honour on my birthday.

Again Satchi :-she was constantly chatting with me through mails and am really touched by all her kind enquiries!
I owe my thanks to dearest M.S.Sunitha who was very much concerned about my absence here..
sorry that I couldn’t pick up your private message m.s.s. as I had had not posted anything over the past month.
Thank You Sojourner Sir and P.G.Raman for your enquiries as well.

This great rapport within this IL FAMILY is indeed always CHERISHABLE…three cheers to IL…hip hip hurray!!!!!!
Saras

 

Guess that's 'coz you've been a Teacher yourself rgs
And thanks for the first fb
SARAS