Horrors...but really children at heart!
Today was the children’s day assembly at school…it was so hilarious – to watch the very people we are most apprehensive off, dress up in skirts and pigtails and little golden cardboard crowns! All my laughing put aside, I actually found it quite cute…the way they practiced for a week to put up that show for us. We have a big bunch of kids for teachers!
The assembly started off with Ms. Renita and Ms. Lorna singing a song. “You’ve got a friend”…they could BARELY remember the words…but they had tried singing in harmony – that Ms. Kavita (on the piano) had obviously tried to teach them. It turned out sounding quite nice…and we all screamed at the top of our lungs by the end of it!
There were two dances. One led by Ms. Varsha (who by the way was dancing like she was going to be on TV or something) – to Devdas’ ‘Dola Re’! It was really entertaining to watch the two Malyali computer science teachers dance in Bengali saris!! The other dance…was a dandiya – with the teachers in guy-girl pairs. This would ordinarily be fine, except that it was danced to the Ketchup Song!! Oh god…we were DYING by the end of it!! Of course, Ms. Caroline was a part of it, and she made it all the more fun to watch!
The funniest bit of the assembly, however, was the two little skits.
In one, all the teachers were pretending to be either blushing brides (Ms. Beulah!!!), or crying mothers (Ms. Meera…can you believe it?!) , or selfish wives who only wanted saris from their husbands (Ms. Vineetha! HA!). We – standing at the end of the first floor balcony – couldn’t stop laughing!! It was absolutely hilarious!
The other was the NAFL faculty’s very own version of Cinderella (with Ms. Malashri as the star mind you…)! I don’t think that I will ever forget Ms. Malashri, in her black skirt and pigtails, shouting, “Where’s my soufflé?!”
All in all, the day was a success, there were roses everywhere, and we actually managed to get one or two classes off because it was ‘Children’s Day!’ The teachers might have made jokes of themselves for one day, but we laughed with them all the same. I guess the next time one of them gives us a hard time, we’ll picture them in pigtails, or crying into their pallus!
The assembly started off with Ms. Renita and Ms. Lorna singing a song. “You’ve got a friend”…they could BARELY remember the words…but they had tried singing in harmony – that Ms. Kavita (on the piano) had obviously tried to teach them. It turned out sounding quite nice…and we all screamed at the top of our lungs by the end of it!
There were two dances. One led by Ms. Varsha (who by the way was dancing like she was going to be on TV or something) – to Devdas’ ‘Dola Re’! It was really entertaining to watch the two Malyali computer science teachers dance in Bengali saris!! The other dance…was a dandiya – with the teachers in guy-girl pairs. This would ordinarily be fine, except that it was danced to the Ketchup Song!! Oh god…we were DYING by the end of it!! Of course, Ms. Caroline was a part of it, and she made it all the more fun to watch!
The funniest bit of the assembly, however, was the two little skits.
In one, all the teachers were pretending to be either blushing brides (Ms. Beulah!!!), or crying mothers (Ms. Meera…can you believe it?!) , or selfish wives who only wanted saris from their husbands (Ms. Vineetha! HA!). We – standing at the end of the first floor balcony – couldn’t stop laughing!! It was absolutely hilarious!
The other was the NAFL faculty’s very own version of Cinderella (with Ms. Malashri as the star mind you…)! I don’t think that I will ever forget Ms. Malashri, in her black skirt and pigtails, shouting, “Where’s my soufflé?!”
All in all, the day was a success, there were roses everywhere, and we actually managed to get one or two classes off because it was ‘Children’s Day!’ The teachers might have made jokes of themselves for one day, but we laughed with them all the same. I guess the next time one of them gives us a hard time, we’ll picture them in pigtails, or crying into their pallus!
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2 Comments:
At 1:48 am, November 21, 2004,
D. said…
Whee, you sound like you had plenty of fun. Good for you. ;)
Mrs. Meera? As a crying mother? Oh, god, I'll never get the mental image out of my head... And Mrs. Vineetha as a wife who only wants a saree. Snork. She-of-the-raised-eyebrows?
I know what you mean. We haven't stopped teasing our computer teacher about the play where he was the Music teacher's boyfriend...But he did it with such a funny accent!
At 5:40 am, November 22, 2004,
Aveek said…
Er, are you sure you typed right>>> Ms. Meera crying?!?!?!?!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! (man, i gotta be the meanest person on this planet!!). How cool! The teachers never did that for us last year... We just got extra work so that the 'Big Children' had 'Big Childre's Fun'. YUK. Hehe... Does someone have a recordong of any of this?
P.S. who's Doldo?(I like the name... sounds a bit like somthing that came from The Lord Of The Rings and then took a detour through Dude Where's My Car... :-D )
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