The 'Alex Page' Series - Part 1

Summer of 2004.

Our Lady Of Lourdes School was bustling with students and parents. Students waiting to grab their Secondary School Certificate. The certificate which officially says that its time to say “goodbye” to school life and “hieee” to college life.

(Parents these days were more eager to know how much others had scored)

It was an emotional day for students who spent about ten years of their life in this school, ten years of studies, ten years of mischief, ten years of exams, ten years of playing football with the ten centimeter tamarind tree stick during the 10minute ‘recess’. Ten years of chanting jana gana mana and hail mary prayers everyday before the start of the school periods and vande mataram before the school got over.

Ten years of kneeling down as a punishment for “disturbing the class by talking continuously, not listening to the teachers.”  Ten years of listening to teachers giving complaints about the student to their respective “mothers and fathers”  during ‘open day’.

Ten years of a wonderful school life.

From this day onwards the hectic process of applying to different colleges for the respective courses -Science Arts or Commerce you know - had started.

It was again a hectic process of picking out which field to opt for – Science Arts Commerce you know! – your mummy and papa would say of their choice, your friends would say something of their choice. And one ends opting for the wrong course. But that helps sometimes though!

The Science field was for all the so called spectacle wearing intelligent students. Commerce also carried somewhat the same weightage. Arts was for all the low scoring students. ha!

Alex had scored 65% and was in a very joyful mood because he had never thought he would score so much.

To be continued….

Next: Alex enters junior college.