Grade 3
The best year I ever had in school was my year in Grade 3. I must have been around 7 or 8 years old. I remember a lot of things from that part of my life in school. I even remember the names of my friends, and I had lots of friends too. I think of all my years in school, Grade 3 was the best.
I started off school year with a double attack of jaundice and malaria at a time. I was at school only for two days and then didn't go for a month coz of my illness. My sister was equally sick too so we both were at home for a month. Its probably because of this reason that my teachers were very nice to me and took good care of me. I was the pet of my class teacher, Daisy Miss. She always took me and another student daily to her house for lunch. I was always included and the other student changed.
I remember I had the habit of sitting under the teacher's table and eating my lunch on the rare occasions when she didn't take me or anyone else to her place. I remember that we used to watch for bats in a big huge tree that was in our school compound. Sometimes the bats used to come and sleep on the ceilings of the corridor close to our classrooms. We tried to shoo them away by throwing chocolate wrappers, which ofcourse didnt reach them.
The best part about Grade 3 was our educational tour to Kerala. We went to Cochin for three days. Our school had arranged for us to visit a bread factory (Milka breads, if I remember correctly), a hair-oil manufacturing factory, and a soap-manufacturing factory. I always used to stay first in the line. I have a picture of me and my friends wearing pink caps and waiting outside the bakery at the bread factory. I remember we had to wear those caps before going inside the bakery. When we boarded our bus to leave the place, some people distributed a piece of fruit bread. We got a drop of oil to put in our heads at the hair-oil factory. They didnt give any soap at the soap factory.
We also went for a ferry ride in the lagoon at Cochin. I remember it was drizzling and all of us were making a big fuss and our teachers were having a problem walking us on a narrow ledge to get to the other side. I have a picture of all of us taken at the lagoon after we got down the ferry.
I guess I remember so much of this particular school year in my life because it was so much fun and so full of happy memories and lots of friends. I think during my whole time at school, only during this year I had so many friends - friends as in the kind of people who like you and you like them. We did have our share of petty fights and stuff - no friendship is complete without fights! I would love to see all of them again.
I started off school year with a double attack of jaundice and malaria at a time. I was at school only for two days and then didn't go for a month coz of my illness. My sister was equally sick too so we both were at home for a month. Its probably because of this reason that my teachers were very nice to me and took good care of me. I was the pet of my class teacher, Daisy Miss. She always took me and another student daily to her house for lunch. I was always included and the other student changed.
I remember I had the habit of sitting under the teacher's table and eating my lunch on the rare occasions when she didn't take me or anyone else to her place. I remember that we used to watch for bats in a big huge tree that was in our school compound. Sometimes the bats used to come and sleep on the ceilings of the corridor close to our classrooms. We tried to shoo them away by throwing chocolate wrappers, which ofcourse didnt reach them.
The best part about Grade 3 was our educational tour to Kerala. We went to Cochin for three days. Our school had arranged for us to visit a bread factory (Milka breads, if I remember correctly), a hair-oil manufacturing factory, and a soap-manufacturing factory. I always used to stay first in the line. I have a picture of me and my friends wearing pink caps and waiting outside the bakery at the bread factory. I remember we had to wear those caps before going inside the bakery. When we boarded our bus to leave the place, some people distributed a piece of fruit bread. We got a drop of oil to put in our heads at the hair-oil factory. They didnt give any soap at the soap factory.
We also went for a ferry ride in the lagoon at Cochin. I remember it was drizzling and all of us were making a big fuss and our teachers were having a problem walking us on a narrow ledge to get to the other side. I have a picture of all of us taken at the lagoon after we got down the ferry.
I guess I remember so much of this particular school year in my life because it was so much fun and so full of happy memories and lots of friends. I think during my whole time at school, only during this year I had so many friends - friends as in the kind of people who like you and you like them. We did have our share of petty fights and stuff - no friendship is complete without fights! I would love to see all of them again.
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