Am Thrilled!
Guess Wat…. I got a mail.. a mail from my school principal..yes, the place which was my world for 14 full years.. n she mailed me asking if I can write an article for the Special Edition of the School Magazine. U know how it is…when the people who taught u alphabets, articles, prepositions, grammar, punctuations, words ‘et all…asks u to write an essay..putting together all of that, so many years later. I’m thrilled n excited n nervous!
When I visited India, My sis n I had gone to school. We wanted to meet a few teachers and enquire about admissions for Rishab(sister’s son). Though there were a whole lot of new teachers, there were a whole bunch of the old ones too. My LKG teacher was yet there! To think she attended our weddings n now is there to see our li’l one grow..was so emotional for us. On seeing us one of the teachers exclaimed ..”Oh My God! Look at you sisters. You haven’t changed at all. If you were in your uniform I would have reprimanded you for being out of class. You girls haven’t aged! N Sumathi , u have a son? Unbelievable !!” Yes, we were super happy! It feels so good to see your teachers look at you and beam with pride about how well their “products” have turned out. They had put in their life n soul into making these products n their effort seems to be worth it, atleast in their eyes.
Our HM, was complaining about how times have changed so much. About how today’s parents are so interfering and panic over every li’l thing their child goes back home n tells them. She was telling us about how during those days they could freely scold us and give us punishments when we had done wrong (which I’m sure every child does) but how that isn’t possible today. She said Children have learnt to spin yarns and parents believe everything the child says. She was also telling us about how parents were so desperate to showcase their child and keep showin-off about wat all their child could do. One feels like it’s a competition among the parents for which they use their children.
Now I’m sure this is not true of all parents. But yes I’ve seen many parents like this, who love to keep talking about n show-casing their child’s talents at any given opportunity. They don’t want anyone to scold their child. N I don’t think that’s a very healthy way of growing up.
BTW I got this mail from my principal Monday morning and have been thinking of what I can write about…Any suggestions?
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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Glad to know that Pavi wow! I hope u write a great article. Good luck too!
U've been back from ur holiday in India, but u forgot to drop by at Keshi's say Hi? No worries hehe. Just realised that u were back for a while cos I saw u in other blogs. As long as ur having fun, everything's great right? :) TC!
Keshi.
WOW!! Great opportunity!
How about writing about your favorite memory from school?
:)
lovely opportunity! do well.
had met my ukg teacher few days back ....she was shocked to death when i told he tht i was her ukg student!!!...:0
So are u thrilled about writing for the school mag or the princi contactin u?
Whichever way,it seems be like u the honoured one.Thtz nice!!
Coincidentally, i have posted sumtin abt school days only.
Ideas..hmm...leme think.maybe ull get some idea frm my post.
awesomeee....
I know that comment about you looking like kids would have made your day..
But hey...you forgot to put in your sister's response? that was the focal point!!!
Message: Pavi went Nostalgic :-)
Yes very true. Its a great feeling when your back home schooll teachers look at you with pride & invite you for speech or writings.
May be you can write about the passions induced by School & their importance
May be u could write on the memoirs of those 14 yrs (with some msg to the kids there,that will guarantee ur essay being put on the billbord in school) in a succinct version...
oh wow! that's so kewl!
u cud write abt the role ur school, played in shaping u, ur thoughts, ur beliefs... ?
that's pretty neat!! How about giving some kind of gyaan?
wow!! reading dat made me feel a lil weird coz i neva really had a connection with my teachers or school! i hated n still hate school! i always wanted it to end! but im sure it must b a nice feeling that ppl still remember you!
gud going:)
u can write bout life in US!!
GREAT NEWS PAVI !
Good luck =)
that is so nice of them to want you to write an article..its such an emotional moment...i can believ when you say that you are nervous...
hmmm...maybe you can writen on something connected to that school...on how it has shaped you..etc...
Hey you moved to Vermont... see I am commenting about your previous post.. sorry!! Have a good time settling down.
As for parenting.. I know what you are talking about.. but believe it or not.. this generation is very different from ours besides what hand the parents lend in instilling competition/ spinning yarns.
This is a great opportunity.. I think you should write about something fun about your school.. I suppose they would want something inspiring and motivating though!! :)
@Keshi : Hey, welcome back! Thank You.
n i was reading u on n off but hvn't commented.
@Sol: yuppie! thnx. n ONE fav memory? hmm..will hv to think hard!
@galadriel: thnx :)
@Broca: must hv felt gr8 na.. :)
@mez: i was thrilled that the principal contacted me for writing :) Read ur post n commented.
@Harish: I felt like tht would be like im braggin too much.so din't write abt it :)
@Cm: yes ! i was v.nostalgic. I like that topic. thnx.
@karma: oh gyaan n preaching..tht comes to me naturally..so ya there'll be a bit of that :P
@Ray-Ray: yes..will do sumthing on the lines of take-aways from school life?
@Ranjani:ya thts wat i just told karma..gyaan n preaching..tht comes to me naturally..so ya there'll be a bit of that in watever i write!
@Gunj: im not sure teachers can ever forget their students! u want to share why u didn't like school?any particular reason?
@neeku: Thnx!
@Suma: yeah, even i was surprised n glad that they had some hopes out of ME :)
@preeti: yes, i moved to VT.Where are u at BTW?
ya its easy to talk abt parenting or anything w/o actually bein in those shoes..im sure it must be a lot diff talking frm within those shoes!
i ll try combine fun n motivating..after all..we did all the fun things n turned out fine rite :)
o really? I believe that!
Keshi.
Wow! Thats a great opportunity. I think you should write about your life in the US, and how you have changed since moving from India? Is it a good change, bad change..whatever experiences you may have had. I think it will be inspiring to future students who are contemplating coming to the US.
keshi kindly dont fight please. love one and all. we are blogger friends forever! :)
who is the anon now? only the guilty person will come the pacify things. let the accused answer what Keshi have asked. we want to know what is happening in this blog- community, oh what is Pavi trying to do and who is she confiding with, because we found out that its not only a small group of people whose been doing this, everyone from Solitaire to Pavi to others have been talking at the back bitching about other blogger for no reason. speak up Pavi.
anon above dont you have a job in real life? rather than to chase around blogville to find out what everyone is up to.
wow... seriously yaar... those moments are nostalgic!!
i still remember how they had the right to scold us for anything we did wrong!! they cud punish us and our parents only told us.. u must have done something wrong!!
and now the things have changed so much, even we cant touch our niece and nephews leave apart teachers... though i still can!! :D
they say now, learn from me!! :P
but yes.. i do remember!! those were golden days yaar...
:)
amazing and i just wanna congratulate u coz u deserve it!! :)
i dont know but somehow i respect u a lot though i dont know much abt u... but watever i have read... i think i know u more than i think i do!! :)
and i suggest just write abt the journey from there to here!! :)
motivate them to do all the good things... :)
Cheers!!!
@keshi: its a free world. U blv wat u want to.
@CG: Thanks:) will try to incorporate some of that.
@Ankur: That was a very nice thought-out comment. Thanks a lot.The "Respect u" came at the rite time...not sure if u said it 'coz u sensed that i needed to hear sumthing like that or u said it just like that ..Either ways..appreciate the warmth..thnx a bunch.
Gr8 that u feel u know more abt me after reading my blog..i speak direct dil-se in here.
Thanks a lot for the wishes as well. Hope to do a good job.
n yes so much has changed from our times to now:)
pavi.. i said it coz i believe in it.. sometimes its just comes to us.. like u said... direct dil se... so i respect u from dil se!!! :)
and i didnt know any reason that u need to hear like that!!
just take care,
u rock!!
Ankur
write bout wht the school gave you..some of those lessons!!
I dunno who Anony is but why d u think Im 'fighting'? Do u see me with guns and knives? FYI Im only 'talking', if u can see the difference.
Last time I had a disagreement with someone, alot of ANONY ppl USED my name to mudsling others. So plz dun do that here. Wutever u hv to say, say it using ur ID. o.w. wut u say becomes VOID.
Pavi yeah, its a free world. So dun come asking me if Im IMAGINING wut I wrote in that post etc etc. Let ppl be who they r w.o. putting their every thought under ur microscope! U DOUBT my feelings as if u seemed to know exactly wuts going on. I wonder how.
anyways, tnxx but no thanks. tata!
Keshi.
Great!!!!!
I think you already have ample good suggestions...
share with us what you write :)
you've been awarded.. hop over to pick it up.. :)
heyyy yaar.. how hv u bn?? hv bn busy.. flunkd my civils :( :( :(
abt d ur school.. its so lovely yaar.. i'd nevr recommend my skul to any1..SAMS in BSK 2nd stage.. they've converted d entire playground to concrete!!
part of ths post itself is grt material fr d mag..
nice yaa...
luck!
WOW o WoW!! Thats really Great!!!
Make the article special, so that they will come back to u again for the next special edition :-)
Previously it was money and status one will boast about. But, now its their children. I have seen many people, if their children got low mark, or are jobless... how they treat them... Education sucks!!!
Cheers :-)
My first visit to your space. Times have definitely changed. I can say that more than you. It is so nice to visit your old institutions and see if you find the old charm. For your school magazine, I suggest write some of the lighter moments you had there with good touch of humour.
If you find time, do visit me at
o3.indiatimes.com/niceguy251
Take care
@Ankur . Thanks :)
@Divya: Hello, welcome to my space. n thnx for the idea.
@Ceedy:yup some gr8 ideas here..n I'll have to wait until my school mag is published before i publish it at any other space..so it may be a while before i actually get to share what i write with u guys. sorry.
@galadriel. Thnx so much gurl!ur the 1st one to award me...yayeee!
@knatch..oh no!im sorry to hear abt the civils..but hec u gonna study law now na?so alls good..rite?
n converted playground into concrete! damn!when will india learn to give the due importance to sports n stuff other than academics!
@D: Thanks :)
@keshi: As its a free world i expressed my Q about whether ur imagining. Its ur freedom, to publish my comment or not, to ignore or respond to it or do watever w/o indulging in any accusations/name-calling.
I'm not sure how u came to the conclusion that i put ur thots under a microscope or am not letting u be.
Anywez ur welcome.
@Karthik: will do my best. Thanks.
n yes..some parents have started using thier children as a commodity!
@Jack: Welcome here. N yes, times have changed! thnx for the idea..i too was trying to think of sumthing light-hearted rather than serious stuff.
will visit u soon.
i soooooooo hate my school days!
u belong to those lucky lot :)
i wanted lots of freedom!! school ofcoz dint give me dat :P
that sounds good
bring back nostalgia!
@Lukky: aww :(
@Gunj : My final article for the school mag was inspired by ur last comment on Freedom!!
@Mansi : welcome here :)
@ALL: Finally wrote the article n sent it. Am waiting for feedback from my teachers...
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