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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

My first day at Shirisha school: continued ( Initial hiccups)

A few days went on without any change. And then the real threat came in the form of an intimation that the very next day we four had to take an exam.The question paper would come from government. DV,radha,sriman and i didnt bring TC from our previous school.That's why we had to take that exam. I was very much worried about that. I didnt remember anything about V class syllabus then. I wondered how my other three friends felt about that. But I was fully scared. The next day, I woke up and was on the bed for a long time.. I was very tensed. My eyes were with full of tears and finally....I exploded and started crying. My mamaiah enquired me and said that the exam was only a formality and there was nothing to worry. That was the first time in my life i ever felt that much of pressure academically.
I went to school along with radha. We were asked to come out of the class and sit under trees for exam. I felt embarrassed while coming out of the class as everybody was looking at us. A few minutes later we were given question papers. As far as I remember , I could not answer much of the questions. And only God would have known the situation of my other three bold(??) exam-taking friends.Sometime later a sir,might be Chandraiah sir ,came and looked at our answer sheet.He smiled with a little sarcasm which did hurt me a lot. A little later,Shirin sir,the principal also enquired about us with other sirs who were there watching us. One of them even mumbled " ekkadinunchi vacchaarrra" .
Then came the top embarrasing moment of the scene. They(sirs) took question paper from us and gave that to the toppers of our shirisha classmates. They answered those questions and that was given to us so that we could copy. I could not recollect which exam was that but I still remember ,one evening, we were given the answers provided by the toppers and while we were writing ,everybody of the class was looking at us from the classroom with full of exuberance and enthusiasm. I looked at all of them and I remember their faces. Laughing. Smiling. Some serious . And some curious.
This troublesome event went on for three days and finally we became the real Shirishians.

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