Yippee!! I met Shiny Ma'am
One of the
happiest things that happened to me when I went to India was bumping into my 4th
grade class teacher, Shiny ma’am.
Me, Mom, Appupan
(grandpa) and Ammuma (grandma) were shopping at Nucleus mall. Appuppan, Ammumma and
Mom were packing some vegetables in plastic bags. I was just standing near them
when I saw Shiny ma’am. I was astonished to see her and then she noticed me and
she looked surprised too.
But wait!!! Before
I go on, I better tell you about Shiny ma’am.
Shiny ma’am was our
4th grade class teacher. She was like, the best teacher ever. She
was funny and really kind. Sometimes she
would tell us exciting information. When we were in the 5th grade we
still talked about her.
Later her husband
got transferred and they had to go to South Africa. We all were really sad and
upset, including her.
So seeing her at
Nucleus was really exciting. I ran towards her and we hugged. Ma’am‘s sister
and Mom was also there. My Mom first looks surprised, and then she recognized
my teacher. Ma’am said that whenever she heard the song “Country roads”, the
song I sang and won 3rd prize in our singing competition, she always
thought of me.
It was almost like
a teacher-student reunion. After sometime we said bye and went home.
I just have to
tell my classmates about this. After all, they loved Shiny ma’am just like me.
But I swear no one’s gonna believe me. I can tell you what’s going to happen in
a few steps….
1. I tell them what happened.
2. They say that they don’t believe me and
that I have gone bonkers.
3. Then I have to swear, promise, hold my ears
and protest that after all, she is from Kerala and can’t she come to her
homeland for vacation?
I think that my
classmates assume that once a person goes to another place, they never go back
to their own country.
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