HAPPY CHILDREN’S DAY!!!
I and my children were awake till late hours,last evening preparing for the next day event. I was writing my compering dialogues while my children were carrying out my other requirements,as colored paper cutting for decorating the classroom boards,giving color to the black and white hand written message,on a chartpaper ,drying the applied paint, so that it did not smear on hands and clothes…etc. etc.
I must mention here that I shall ever remember their help with loving gratitude. It was a big job and I would not have done it without their help,especially my daughter whose patient artistic strokes in completing the huge chart paper ,I made for my class children was a great ease to my worried mind! Children’s day in our Carmel School had lots of activities to be done by its teachers! I was not an exception!
However,occupied I was with responsibilities, of my house, my husband my children, yet my creative commitments overtook all. All these did tire me but there was a great soothe ,I felt,having accomplished them to the best of my ability. Especially, when I was to do it for Children’s Day function! It was an inner urge ! I hope you will understand how it was completed!
Arrival of Children’s Day morning,was all the more exciting! I pictured it before I reached school. All my class children without exception, would be present. Some would sit at their place ,while a few would would be seen peeping out, in wait to get a clue of my arrival. I was helped by my daughter in carrying those art material, that we had prepared the previous evening,to my desk.
I thank the Almighty for having blessed me with such wise -loving heart!
My class children would soon gather around me playing the next supportive role. We would together put all the material in their respective places-the chartpaper on the outside chartpaper bulletin board,the paper cut flowers on the rear blackboard, while I took the lead in putting my novice rhyming couplets with colorful chalks,on the other front blackboard .
AND THEN ! ! ! I turned round, to face the congregation of the most loving and smiling faces, one could ever imagine!
It was alike an awaited award,a renewal of those glorious moments of my childhood ,which still make a part of me,even today!
We together sang songs and the day continued resonating with repeated good wishes of HAPPY CHILDREN’S DAY.
Immediately the general Assembly was arranged, in school hall and we teachers presented a short entertainment program for all the children. We could feel the surprise,the enthusiasm and the excitement with which it was watched. For a couple of months, it remained as a favorite subject,whenever we interacted during free moments.
The tides of time have ebbed but those showers of warm togetherness still spell the air sweet! Today at this hour,as I sit in the balcony ,the swaying eucluptys trees remind of my children going mad with laughter, as they saw us on stage,making effort to move our fat-bellied waist on popular dance tunes!
It was ridiculous and an uncommon event as no other school teachers organised Children’s Day program as we Carmel School teachers of Bhagalpur, presented it for, our school children.
Yet, I am happy we did it. It remains as a pleasant memory-a panacea to all other life experiences!
A rejuvenating balm to the exhaustive academic schedule,then!
Thank you,children,for making my life happy!
“YOU” made my life celebrate!
“You” made my days lovable!
“YOU” ingrafted in me, an unusual instinct of creativity!
“YOU HAVE MADE ME FEEL,EVER BEING WANTED!”
HAPPY CHILDREN’S DAY TO ALL OF YOU, MY CHILDREN!
Truly speaking it was never a duty, rather a desire! Children’s Day brought the child in me to the forefront. The past school days rewound before me. I forgot I was a teacher now ! The child in me once again wished to celebrate this occasion. It wanted to arrange the classroom specially, it wanted to sing,it wished to dance, it wanted to act …..and share all sweetness with my friends!
Perhaps more than three decades of my life had passed when I became a teacher but it was this festival that made ME realize that mentally, I had never left my school classroom.
AASHISH