Jul 22, 2014

Sky lab and the games period

We were in eigth in 1979 when an American Satellite called Skylab fell on Earth. Students were wildly excited as to where it would fall. Luckily nothing untoward happened. Nevertheless the event was remembered for a long time.
One day our physical training master wanted to interact with the children who had come to the playground in their favourite games period. He called all the boys and girls under a small tree near the water taps close to the primary wing where the morning assembly was held and started lecturing them. Now who wants a lecture on games? The children were desperate to play and have fun for sometime. We thought that it would last for about five minutes. But the teacher kept on speaking about something in which no one was interested. He could not understand the body language of the boys and girls who simply wanted to run, shout and have fun to relieve their stress. All our excitement of the games period died when the lecture grew into a lengthy one. When ten minutes of the period were left he said, "Okay, now you can play".
One pretty girl who was an year senior to us spoke in a girlish tone by swaying her body girlishly whilst clasping her hands near her belly, "Abb kya hoga Sir?" She wanted to say that what could be played when almost the whole period was over. The teacher did not seem to understand what she meant. He imitated her several times by swaying his fat torso while clasping his hand just as the girl had done. We all laughed unlimitedly at his imitaltion which he repeated several times along with mimicking the girlish tone and saying, "Abb kya hoga Sir". Then he turned to the girl and said in his natural voice,"Skylab ggirrae ga abb"(the heavens are going to fall now). Thus a few more minutes got wasted All the children had a hearty laugh. Finally the period was over and we all were showing our sagging faces to the world. We went back to our class rooms without playing. Was the teacher so ignorant that he could not understand our loss? Well, only some high technology Skylab can know that.