I.J.E.M.H.S stands for Infant Jesus English Medium High school. This is the place that has given me beautiful memories of my childhood and wonderful friends whom i will never forget in my entire life. This particular school is a christian missionary school located in small village called pakala (Dew's birth place). I have done my entire schooling from U.K.G to 10th class in this memorable place. The reason why i am writing down this post is because i want to pen down the wonderful part of my life for my friends and myself so that when we read this post we can all be back to our childhood days. Ok let me describe the memories in my 9th and 10th classes the reason being i remember them very well.
The school day typically starts with a prayer hall and prayer dairies in the hands of each and every student. The SPL (School pupil leader) address the crowd and starts the prayer and ends it too....Typically the prayer on every monday is like a hell for the students. Because on monday the duration of prayer is very long which consists of a normal prayer, Pledge, Normal prayer song (I still remember the song on monday which is "Obedience is the very best way.........."), Flag hoisting,National Anthem, News Paper reading. Every student stands in the hot sun during the prayer session just praying for the prayer to end quickly. We also used to have a uniform check by our PET teacher after the prayer. Students who are not in uniform are not allowed inside the classes.
The next thing that haunts every student are the hefty classes that starts from morning after the prayer and goes on till evening. There were also PET (Physical education training), SPW (Special project Work) periods which are meant for playing. These periods are like an oasis in desert for students with hefty school work. We used to hate those teachers who occupy the PET, SPW periods just for the sake of their selfish deeds of teaching subjects like mathematics, Social studies etc. The games which we used to play during the PET hours are cricket (with writing pad as bat), Kho-Kho (girls and boys together), Kabhadi (Girls and boys separately), Hopping etc...
Ok coming to my favourite teacher in the entire school is my biology teacher Ms. Bharathi. Maybe this the reason why i became really interested in life sciences. I used to draw some biology diagrams on the black board for the explanation in the class. She used to appreciate me for the sketches. There was another teacher for physics Mr. Siva Kumar who used to teach the subject in a very hi-fi manner. He also took us once to the National MST RADAR facility located near to our village. That was a wonderful experience for us all, although we didn't understand any thing, the equipment and machines caught our attension. Our Mathematics teacher was Mr. Balaji whose classes were not that interesting. There were rumours in the school that he used to leak exam papers to his tution students. Our Telugu teacher was Mr. Gurumurthy who used to give very less marks to me in all my telugu exams due to which i used loose my first rank many times in the class (Trying to be mean right). Many boys used to think that he used to show a lot of partiality to the girls with respect to the exam marks. He also used to scold boys very badly in some bitter telugu words. Our Hindi teachers are not worth mentioning i think...i used to hate hindi as a subject a lot....But may be u can call it fate, i am now speaking this language to a larger extent than any other language now. The most ferocious and frightening teachers of all is our social teacher Father Mathews (Our Principal). He teaches history extraordinarily. His punishment levels are also very high if one don't answer his questions. He generally used to give some time to read some particular number of questions and after that he used to ask those questions to each one of us randomly. If one fails to answer he or she used to get get punishment with his ruler stick on their hands. Believe me the pain was unbearable. But there were some students who became resistant to even this punishment. We used to keep some kind of tree leaves which we believe are lucky so that they can help us avoid punishment from him. The other part of social studies was handled by Ramani miss.
The other most enjoyable moments are School tours. I think i attended in each every school tour. Our school has taken us to Ooty, Kodikanal, mysore, banglore and many other places. Imagine the kind of enjoyment one can get visiting school trip with his/her friends that too not under the vigilance of their parents.They were really amazing. I think the most annoying job in the school days is to be the class leader of a particular class. Class leaders are given the responsibility to monitor the class in the absence of the teacher. So the class leader will be writing the names of students who used to talk in the class or make any noise. This job is very frustrating because u can easily make many enemies in your class or gain some false respect from the fellow class students or get some real warning from the parents of the students who names are written.
Another interesting thing which was present in our school was that the medium of conversation is English. People who don't speak English has to pay fine to the person responsible normally the class leader. The class leader can appoint some spies who will help him in collecting the fine. Some class leaders are very cunning and immoral because they used to spend the fine money for their personal things. I used to sit in the last desk along with my tallest friends in the class. There used be a guy in the class who used bring some eatables to the class. Unable to control our appetite we used to eat inside the class without the knowledge of the teacher. Once one of my friend was caught while he was eating something stuffed everything inside the mouth with some jam(sauce) on his lips in the biology class. It was very embarrassing situation for him though. U may think all these things are done by the stupid boys like us but such things are also done by girls too. Once a girl was eating guavas in the class. Suddenly one guava slipped from her hands and directly rolled down to our teachers feet. Very unlucky girl right. Once the entire boys group was unlucky because on the day of raksha bandan each and every boy was tied rahkis from most of the girls. I would have been lucky if i was absent that day.
Finally the farewell day for us was the most saddest day ever.I think there were a few love proposals also made on this particular day. We cried for the entire day and then left for our respective houses. . But a bunch of our tuition friends have decided that we need to stay in touch for ever and we are in touch till this point of time.
This article is entirely dedicated for all my school friends: Deepu, bansi, rajeev, priya, hena, hema, siri, Dileep, Satish, Balaji, navaneetha, Nayana.S.Nair, Rezwana,aruna, Elizebeth, poornima, poojasree, Shasi kiran,vinod paul, N.M.Rajech, P.rajesh, lekha priyadarshini and many more.......... (Hey all please forgive me if i didn't add any name......forward me you names ill add them if in case.....)
My school friends can add any the points to this story which are not written by me. Lets make this story more interesting guys!!!!!!!
