The School Love

All of us have encountered with the place that haunts many. Most of us didn’t liked going there. Still we have spent our 12 years there. That place is “S-C-H-O-O-L”. Most of us didn’t like going to school especially mine, where I’ve to leave at 6:15 am in order to be on time to school. The first thingthat haunted in school was “A-S-S-E-M-B-L-Y”, which I never attended seriously. Like I’ve never spoken the second line during pledge. You all are smart enough to understand “why?”.

But still after all this, there was someone because of whom I loved going to school. Most of us do. Her craze was just mind blowing. Not just students but teachers too were fond of her. She was famous not only in the school but outside the school also. Everybody dreamed of being around her. During the recess break, everyone gathered around her. This was her. "My school Canteen".

Yes all the above description is regarding my school canteen. All of us had a canteen in our schools and we’ve lots of memories associated with it. From struggling for our share in snack to throwing pastries onto each other during birthdays, all of us has made memories. In a way canteen has witnessed us growing. The place which taught us “be in a queue” to “just get inside the queue, take whatever you want and leave”. Each day, we knew some or the other student will surely go to canteen and so we camped outside canteen during the recess time. As soon as someone known to us, brought something, we used to rush and get our share out.

Sometimes we had to go to canteen and order something for our teachers. We were Waiters. The best part is they never gave us a share which indeed they should have given to us. But anyhow, that time, in a way, we were officially send to bunk class as once gone, we usually came when the class is just 10 minutes to end. So it was a sour but sweet experience. But I have never imagined, this place will make an everlasting impression onto my mind.

Today my college market is approx 10 times larger than school canteen but the later still holds its place. The fun we used to have there, it’s not the same now. The fun of being in a lively place with friends. This is all about the “school love” of most of us.