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A Day to Remember — or Forget

by Ashish Jay
THERE are days in our life when an experience may be so embarrassing lh«l li would want us to disappear from the fare of the earth till eternity. But as wc grow older, and a little wiser those very embarrassing moments of the past turn out to be memories of good old days When we recall them later, they simply gives us pleasure. Such a day for me was the first day of my 6lh grade tn a new school, which I still remember at the end of that day, al night at ahoul 9:30 PM as my mother pul nx to bed and reminded me that I had another big day ahead of me. I looked at her and thought to myself, If only she knew what I had been through all day
I woke up at about 5:00 in the morrrtng I am usually not an early riser, bul that partlru far day I had every reason to get up early. My school was new, books were new. clothes and shoes were new. I was having a feeling of a new day. I sras pretty excited and found myself ready to #> lo school by 5:30 AM but my class was ached uled to start at 7:30 A.M. Anyway I did my best to spend the two hours fast, by doing something but tt turned out to bx the longest two hours I had ever had I reached school cou pie of minutes before 7 00 A.M. fix-cause every one had to at tend the assembly for half an hour. During the assembly, they used to make us sing the national anthem. take. Ihe oath, then read from the religious book. The last the worst part of this dailv ritual was exercise
By th<- time I trund my scl/ in class, I was too exhausted to even think. Then as the teacher i-ntered the class we stood up like very obedient students. He started to take the attendance and asked the new students to approach his desk, which we did He aajxed for our roll number. some of the students knew their s roll and so told him and got bock to theij seals The ser son who was standing in front of me didn't know his roll number, which made the teacher furious and he started to beat him up By that time I reahzrd that this was the end of my exciting day H waa not only that I didn't know my roil num her The main problem was that 1 didn’t know the meaning of roll number When I told him he .looked al me with an evil smite Without bothering to ex plain he began to box my ears and he started lo heal me up. I was lost I coukin I figure out what I had done wrong to deserve this Iterhaps M waa some thing to do with the killing of the cat al first night, an expression often used by adults that tell me totally bewilde red
During the break, aa I was grtng down the stairs to the rest room, one of my class mates was coming bark up, going back to class Oa hto way he •topped in front of .m< and punched me on my stomach. I wasn l ready for such kindlwsa. May be that • how he greeted people on the first day. I sal there on the stairs for some time holding onto my stomach
But taler to my sentor year he became one of my frtends
Wc had one physical education cfass oh that day. In this cfam H was up to the rtudeni to choose arty game he wanted to play. Some of them were pte^tag ket ball and some Khe myself were just walking and watehfrig ihe games I was amtching cricket The field was at a good distance from th$ school build Ing I was physfc atly but top mind was wondering some where else. Then sudxlenly I heard this bang and realized It was on my head I was bit by the cricket boll It started to bleed The students stopped their game and came running towards me. picked me up and looked for some water to put on my head. There waan l any in the fiekl and the school building was away But beside the field there was a golf course and the toe was Just off the field (a tee to, from where the golfers hit their ball) On the Ice. golfers usually hove a bucket of water which they need to wash their ®>lf balls So they took me there and started to put some water on my head. I felt ■ terrible burning on my head and the smell of the water «»aa terrible, I told them that k can t be water, they smelled It and realized K washi water but urine. Before that Ineldenre I thought of golf as a very sophisticated gdmr and the golfers as civilized, but after that I changed top Mind. I su disgusted, they took me to the rest room, I where I washxd rm head more than 15 Hrwx after which I want to home, and didn't slow up for days