A few Reminiscences

I've changed 6 schools in my lifetime as a school girl. The major transitions were brought about when I moved from Lucknow to Mumbai (wherein I changed 3 schools). I was never a very loud person though I was pretty much vocal about things I felt strongly about but it would take a great deal of effort to ruffle me up but in case you could that would probably be the end of you and I would hate you for the rest of my life and beyond. But when it came to things I was excited about, I would literally shout out from the rooftops so that the whole neighbourhood would know.

Then I was enrolled in a Convent school for the 8th, 9th and 10th standard. It was an academic institution but turns out that it was a secret finishing school too. So eventually we were taught to be more "ladylike" in our manners and behaviour. Be unruffled at all times, sit in a particular way, talk in a particular way, walk in a particular way and so on. Young ladies are expected to be mild in their manners and speak politely and softly.

So when I moved to a somewhat boisterous institution for my +2 I was initially taken aback by the kind of crowd. Needless to say I was on a different tangent altogether. There were times I wanted to run away from school. Little did I know that I would find my best friends for life here and would want time to freeze 2 years later.

The awesomeness of school life is that you are friends with people for who they are and not what they have and that is something you realise only when you enter college. I wouldnt mind trading the excess freedom I have now to go back to school.

Also, never in my life did I ever think I would miss my days of being a school girl. I do!