My First Exam..

I shared this story with my many friends, but just had a mild thought while I was sitting alone having a light coffee on the corridor of my house, why cant I write this story. So I started writing. It as very old time, when I was crawling on the muds and on the courtyard of my house, though it I was studying on the first standard. During the first standard time I was studying at my fathers house. It was the time I had so many people around me and to play around and I had the freedom to enjoy with my friends. Since we were a gang of good number, all families were not really giving too much attention and every families around us had a look on us. So we had a kingdom of workplace to deal with. Then we will play around starting at the time early morning when we wake up at seven o clock till the time the sun sets at six or seven or till it darks. My garnd father had a land which was good in size and so we had a good ground to play with. And we were utilizing the land that one of the famous politician at that time had near our house. It had cashew nut tree and so many fruit trees that were grown up all around and we used to play around cricket and so many plays that we used to do at our childhood time. It had a small pond which used to take out cricket ball and always made one of us stink fishy and smell of water plants. Those times I used to think and wanted to be very healthy to hit sixer as I always wanted to bat, but I was never a good cricketer. There were other good players in my team from that time. Then I was trying to learn to hit sixes, but was failing to do same and ended up in fielding on which I was always angry but I was made convinced on that fact that I should be fielding on a game to success. What game, I always wanted to bat first? We faced few other issues of missing the balls as well. First of all, the land that was maintained for the politician which consisted many money growing plants like cashew trees were look over by one old guy, who hated us playing on those grounds. He had two kids as well, they also sometimes will join the father in making us run when we hit the ball to his house. Also we were strictly restricted us from climbing any trees in that land and even taking any fruit from the trees also were forbidden. But there was a gua tree which I used to love to climb. When nobody is there or when people plays cricket or go for fishing, I used to climb this tree. I had a place on that tree, I will climb and will look at the sky and one place I used to watch was a white house I could see from the heights of my gua tree. I always used to watch simply eating gua fruit or any fruit taken from any tree till the game is over on top of the tree this white house. There was nothing there, but it was a big house and I used to wonder how the people will be living in that house. My house was an average house which had four bed rooms and one kitchen and three families were living there. It was a different kind of house in my thoughts. Nobody from that house ever came to play with us, so I used to think how the people In that house will be living and how those people will be living and why they are not coming to play with us. Isnt it really fun to play with? Then I used to watch that house. My house had a rooftop made of clay tiles, but this house had a concrete roof top. May be that is the reason nobody comes out of that house, they may be living a different life. Sometimes I used to see people going upstairs on the house and going back. When somebody calls me I will get down from the tree and will go back to play or sometimes field. I hated the guys who played well and used to hit sixes. Sometimes I used to wonder, why I cant hit sixes all the time or never, may be that I was kid, but others also were kids though. I wanted to draw since one of my friend used to draw, I considered it just like another thing which I couldn’t do. Later I learned to draw. I used to draw boban molly and the dog which I learned from one of the TV show which I was considering as my ever time achievement in drawing and used to showcase as these characters were very famous of my time. My initial school time of first standard was very interesting. As I told, I had my studies at my fathers house and all my uncles families and grand father and grand mother were living there.

I used to go school in one of my neighbour’s bycycle sitting in the front. Since this guy used to go his work place at the time I used to go school, I used to go along with him or my grand mother or one of my uncle used to take me to school. My father and mother was staying at muvattupuzha which was distant from my father’s house called Thripunithura. So one of these people will drop me to school. But I loved to go along with the uncle used to drop me at the school as he will give me 25ps or 50ps to buy sweets or fruits. At that time, it was really good amount of money for me as it was good enough to buy sweets for me. There was an old lady who used to sell the sweets candies in front of our school. So I used to buy candies before going to school or coming back from school. One day my teacher told me to get 25Rs from home to buy the stamps which used to sold through the schools. I was told a week before and I completely forgot about that stuff that I had to get 25 from my grand mother. I used to ask everything from my grand mother. Then while we were digging out the small elephants that we find on the muds, I suddenly remembered that I have not yet given the 25Rs for teacher. I got beating from teacher for not doing the home work at that time and I was really afraid that I do not ask my home for the 25Rs. And since it was a week time, I was afraid to ask home also, since it was supposed to be a huge amount. I was eating up this trouble for few days and was not sure what to do. I was sure that I will get beating for this from home and from school teacher, so I was not asking it at home and was expecting my teacher asking this at any time. Then that time when one day my saviour uncle came for my help. The guy who used to drop me at school, who used to give me 25Ps when he drops me at school. This money he was not giving all the times and he used to give me sometimes only telling to buy some candies and all. That very day when he gave me that money, I jumped with joy. Because I got what I wanted to buy the stamps. That day I was waiting for our class teacher to come and I run to the teacher and gave 25ps. Teacher asked me she wanted 2Rs, but I couldn’t really understand whats the diffrence between and 25ps and 25Rs. That day I went home and explained that I given 25ps and teacher told me like this. Then my grand mother came next day along with me and teacher explained the incident and given 25Rs to solve the problem.
Then time has passed by and days grown and became older by few months. As far as I was concerned, my life changed not a bit, but people had a difrent opinion on that. One day I was going to school as usual. As usual my grand mother droped me in the school. Then I stepped in the school steps. I looked at the sky, it didn’t had any change from the time I first came to those steps. Then I run to my class room. It was near one big tree, which used to give me a kind of fruit which was very small and will not get in any shops. Sometime I used to look above the tree for many hours to get a fruit. Then sometimes I used to shake the tree also. That day I didn’t try anything else as I run straight to my classroom and gone my seat. That day I observed something when my class teacher came to my classroom. Teacher had something extra things in her hand other than the chalks that she used to carry. When she came to my class I was looking at the other class room what was happening. Then when teacher called everybody, I was not even listening as I was busy looking at the road where vehicles are passing by. Then suddenly when teacher called my name, I was afraid. Teacher called me to come near. I went without any hesitation. Teacher whispered something on my ear. I wondered, why she is whispering something in my ear who used to shout in the class room. Teacher asked me to sing a song. I thought for few minutes and the song which came to my mind was the song which was famous at that time from one of the movies of Rahman who was famous among the youth. I sang that song ‘Oru madhura kinavin lahariyil ente kudamilla poo virinju..(youtube.com/watch?v=oz1sz6BwtyM)”. Teacher didn’t talk to me anything for sometime. She looked at me and told I can go and sit back. I came back to my seat and continued my nature observations. Then I heard somebody singing ‘Koo..kooo..theevandy..”. I remembered it as a song from my text book and I was not really worried. Then we all moved to some other location and we all lined up. Then also I was I involved in my own activities which was nature listening. While I was observing a bird which was sitting on the partially completed building. One another teacher called me. This time it was entirely different setup altogether. There were three teachers sitting on the desk. One teacher asked me a question ‘Which is the creature who live on both water or land?’. I thought for sometime, I didn’t get for five minutes. Teacher told me to move to next teacher. He told me another question ‘Which is the biggest anymal on the land?’. I thought for sometime, I didn’t get answer for that either for five minutes. Then teacher told me to go back and sit. I thought for another five minutes, for which I knew the answer, but I forgot. Then teacher told me to go back and sit. Then I went back to seat thinking about the answer for both questions. Then when I reached back in my seat, the einsteen inside my mind worked out and it evolved out to the solution and eventually to the answer. Yes, I got the answer. Frog and elephant. I shouted the answer from back seat. Teacher called aloud my name to come here. When I came to teachers seat, teacher told me. If you know the answer, do not shout aloud and now go back to seat. I sat back to my seat and thought why that answer didn’t come to my tongue, when teacher asked the question. That examination result what happened, I do not remember to the result, but it was my first exam.