Date: 14th February, 2010
Time: 6:45 AM (20 minutes before morning prayers begin)
Place: In my classroom
Me (Enters my classroom looking crestfallen. My laptop is missing since the day before.) What follows is Berne’s TA theory in full action.
V: Why are you looking saaaaaaaaaaaaaaad?
Me: I think I lost my laptop.
S: Did you look in your ‘office’? (They are very proud that their class teacher (also a PRO) is the only teacher who has an office.)
Me: Yes, I did.
S: It must be at home.
Me: No, it’s not, I checked. I looked everywhere, I couldn’t find it.
F: You only told us, “Try, and try till you succeed”.
Me: (Yeah..now hit me with my own shovel) Deep sigh!
V: Don’t worry, you will find it ma’am.
A cheery K enters the class: Happy ValenceTimes Day!!
Me: Errrrmm..what is Valentine’s Day!
K: (in disbelief) You don’t know????
(Teachers usually enjoy a demigod status. There is NOTHING that they are not supposed to know)
Me: Nopes!
V: When you like somebodyyyyy, you give them a card on Valencetimes day, and they become your Valencetime.
I’m enjoying this now, and its helping me take my mind off the 45+ suspect list that I’ve been making since yesterday.
Me: I am not sure I understand that.
F: Why don’t you look in the internet??
V: Ma’am doesn’t have her laptop remember silly.
(You won’t let me forget that, will you?)
The school bell’s ringing puts me out of my misery and signals the beginning of yet another day....
P.S: I found my laptop
Where was it .. the laptop i mean.. glad you found it now off to interent and find the meaning :)
ReplyDeleteYou know i was a teacher for two years before i left india to come here.. and I still interact with the students.. its great feeling.. I regularly get a email or sms ..
I had left it in my classroom and someone handed it over to the store in charge, who in turn informed the accountant, who decided to tell me after 2 days :( To cut a long story short, I found it.....phew..
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Wonderful narration!
ReplyDeleteFirst time in your blog , its very nice!!