School days are real fun, especially when you are forced to talk English at your school!!!!
When I was in 3rd standard, two of my friends and I decided that we would speak only in English.....not only during school hours but also in the bus. I knew they wanted to avoid teaching me Telugu, but I thought it was for our own good and I agreed.
When we had to talk to a teacher we used to form our sentences before hand, but when we had to talk among ourselves, we never did that, because we knew "the other person knows English as much as I know".
Things were fine till no one else listened to our conversations, at least people who didn't know English, like the RTC bus drivers. They were all our friends, we used to sit beside the driver and talk in English as if we are blessed with some divine powers to talk in that language. Some times when my mom took the RTC bus, some of our driver friends told mom that we are very intelligent and we speak only in English.
My sisters were also in the same school, so they used to come with us in the bus, or you can say we used to travel with them in the bus, but they never preferred to sit or stand near the bonnet.
One day fortunately or unfortunately, we three were sitting in the 3rd or 4th seat and my sister was standing beside us.That day, it suddenly started drizzling. One of my friends put her hand out of the window and said..."Water is falling!!!!!"
My sis gave a weird look and said "what did you say???" Looking at her face expression I understood, there was a problem in the sentence formation. I didn’t want her to laugh at us..... So, before my sis corrected my friend, I corrected her... "Hey... you don't say, water is falling... you say rain is falling". The next moment my sis burst out in laughter.... "What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". It was embarrassing for all three of us.....
She said... "Superb... one says water is falling... the other says rain is falling..... :)You don't say it that way...you say.... It’s raining"
After this incident, we became a bit cautious, not about forming sentences, but checking if no one is overhearing us :) After all we learn from our mistakes, so it was compulsory for us to make mistakes ;)
When I was in 3rd standard, two of my friends and I decided that we would speak only in English.....not only during school hours but also in the bus. I knew they wanted to avoid teaching me Telugu, but I thought it was for our own good and I agreed.
When we had to talk to a teacher we used to form our sentences before hand, but when we had to talk among ourselves, we never did that, because we knew "the other person knows English as much as I know".
Things were fine till no one else listened to our conversations, at least people who didn't know English, like the RTC bus drivers. They were all our friends, we used to sit beside the driver and talk in English as if we are blessed with some divine powers to talk in that language. Some times when my mom took the RTC bus, some of our driver friends told mom that we are very intelligent and we speak only in English.
My sisters were also in the same school, so they used to come with us in the bus, or you can say we used to travel with them in the bus, but they never preferred to sit or stand near the bonnet.
One day fortunately or unfortunately, we three were sitting in the 3rd or 4th seat and my sister was standing beside us.That day, it suddenly started drizzling. One of my friends put her hand out of the window and said..."Water is falling!!!!!"
My sis gave a weird look and said "what did you say???" Looking at her face expression I understood, there was a problem in the sentence formation. I didn’t want her to laugh at us..... So, before my sis corrected my friend, I corrected her... "Hey... you don't say, water is falling... you say rain is falling". The next moment my sis burst out in laughter.... "What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". It was embarrassing for all three of us.....
She said... "Superb... one says water is falling... the other says rain is falling..... :)You don't say it that way...you say.... It’s raining"
After this incident, we became a bit cautious, not about forming sentences, but checking if no one is overhearing us :) After all we learn from our mistakes, so it was compulsory for us to make mistakes ;)
1 comment:
lol!!.. good one
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