A Life Changing Experience
Utter chaos. I turned around, sighing and was shocked to see Lokeswari’s head bleeding. I found out that two of the boys were fighting and this poor girl was caught between and hurt, as a result. I probably couldn’t have survived that day without a co-fellow who was kind enough to accompany us to the hospital where I held the girl’s hand while she was getting stitches on her head. It had been just a few months since I started teaching at this school and those 4th grade kids were not becoming any easier to handle. Monsters they all were. Impish, cute, innocent, troubled monsters. I remember how, while growing up, I used to feel bad for the kids who went to Government schools because they didn’t enjoy the luxuries I did at that stage. If only I knew that such luxuries were the least of their concerns! Looking back at all my times in the classroom, I can’t help but smile. Those seven months taught me so much. Not just about kids, but even about myself. From being someone