i finally made truce with my grumpy lil new neighbour. she is around 4, and drives a snazzy red tricycle, which makes her think she can make faces and stick out her tongue at anyone with impunity. well, i'm not a schoolmarm for nothing. i made a horrible face right back,and neighbourly relations started off on an acrimoniously wrong foot.
today we both were waiting for our respective chariots to come pick us up and convey us to our respective schools. my huge yellow bus impressed her very much, and it should,compared to her common ordinary autorickshaw. i said as much to her as well, getting no reply. probably ashamed of herself.


as for school, i miss my kids. i am getting bored in grade 6. noone here gets into life-or-death wrestling matches over interesting things like water bottles, pencil sharpeners, erasers, crayons,handkerchiefs,curious found objects and dead insects. i miss moderating fisticuffs. above all, noone here hugs me at the slightest provocation. noone gives me high-fives. noone runs after me to say special 'bye's or 'hi's.
everyone here is boringly disciplined. one the bright side,they sang a song to welcome me to their class.

shikha says my class created a mini riot the day i left. they started a shouted chant of 'not fair,not fair.....' as loud as they can, which is loud enough to break the sonic barrier, n generally ran amok, n got rowdy. on they way back, sujan and bhavya cornered me, n demanded to know when i'l go to their class to teach them next; when i promised to try to go as often as possible, n said that il miss them terribly, bhavya said, " our misses are bigger than your miss".

well.