School Diaries #2 Lunch Hall & Railings

“Thank you Lord for all the blessings we are about to receive”

I cannot ever forget this grace we said before starting with lunch in the mess. We used to wait for12:20 pm in junior school, 12:55 pm till class 8 and for 1:35 pm till class 12 for it was LUNCH J Its been 5 years I have passed out from school, but I still remember the menu clear and I don’t think there will be any Yadavindrian around the world who would not remember Monday’s ice cream (in summers) and hot gulab jamub (in winters) and Friday’s Rajma Chawal. Wow! The mess bhaiyas had known our eating habits as well as our mothers did.

Sitting on the railings outside the lunch hall before and after the lunch was a favorite of everyone especially for girls as they used to sit on them with their groups and watch the crushes and boyfriends play football (with tennis ball) or cricket (with books) in the assembly area. It used to be such an amazing time during the day. I myself have done that so many times with my friends. LOL.

Inside of the lunch hall was super cool. High table was a dream for every student, right from the time we came to know the importance of sitting on the high table with the principal sir, vice principal ma’am and house masters, each one of us wanted to be a school appointment and be there some day and sharing some light moments with them. I was lucky enough to be one of those appointments and have my share of dream-come-true moment.

As kids, we used to hate when we were stopped from talking and were punished when we didn’t stop by 12thees. We used to be like why are they doing it? And we even pledged that when we become 12thees, we will never do it. But when we actually got the same duties, we understood the responsibility that was put on our shoulders by our teachers, and we did exactly the same to our juniors what our seniors did to us when we were in younger classes. Hahahaha… And there used to be these boards on which the names of all the appointments were written ever since the school started. I am so glad that today I have a name on that board as the Aitchison House Girls Captain for the year 2006.

And after our lunch we finished it with the grace again.

“Thank you Lord for all the blessings we have just received.”