Back to my School - Nostalgic memories!

Back to my School - Nostalgic memories!

People cherish with their good memories! That too when a place is seen after so many years and at the same time, if the place was a collection of very good memories, wow, no words to explain the complete feeling in few lines!

After coming to Pune, almost once in every quarter, I visit my home town for a week or so and spend time with my parents, relatives, friends and my cousin's dog. It is quite normal schedule that everyone does when they go for vacation. I don't plan much except for couple of outside work to Bank or something like that.


One of my friends wants to switch over his daughter to another school. Since he was in office and not able to go to the school for getting the application form, he called me and asked me to go to the school and get the application form. 


I became happy after hearing the name of the school. It was the same school, I studied and spent my 6 years of childhood life. I have been wanting to go to my school for so many years, after I joined my profession, I have not got an occasion to go, rather, I have not made that situation to visit my school.


I parked my vehicle outside the premises and stepped in. Everybody when they enter a place, where their childhood is spent, be it, school or home town or friend's house or relative house or any other place, their memory would roll back to the time at which they were part of the place and all the activities happened would be seen in front of their eyes. I guess, nobody would be able to deny it.


When I entered the school, the construction work was going on. When I studied, though the school had kinder-garden to higher secondary, I studied up to fifth standard and switched over to another school. The school had enough places at that time. This school is one of the finest schools in the area where we stay. Probably due to the increase in number of students joining every year, the management would have started to construct new classrooms for students.  The passage has been changed to different gate, keeping in mind that no students should enter the gate where the construction work was going on.


I entered through the other gate and went to office. Wow. The school has become multistory building now. Earlier, it was only 1 floor. I remember that I have spent my 5th standard in first floor only. We all students when we go to Computer Science class, go in queue. Computer science practical session was also in first floor. Now school with only first floor changed to school with couple of floors. The teachers whom I have glanced through the corridor when I went to office room, are all new. None of my old teachers could be seen. They might have moved to some other school or got retired. I don't have contacts with any of them. 


I got the application form. The fee structure shocked me as it has increased more than 700%. Whether this increase is due to the new outlook for the school or to compensate the increase in the day-to-day expenses these many years or combination of these things with many other factors!! I don't know.


I waited in the corridor for some more time and recollected my memories, school friends and teachers at that time, then stepped out of the school with my own memories.


Thanks to my friend who has unintentionally asked me to go and get the application form, by which I could able to go my to my old school!