My Ninth Teachers

1.Class Teacher : NAFEES TARANUM
Subject : Physics
Assesment: She has own flair of teaching. Strict ad effective and you dont want to fall in trouble with her, otherwise people will have to organize a funeral for you. Good mood very rare. Bad mood, beware!!
Might be hard at times...but overall a wonderful lady...knows how to teach Physics...i actually use to understand something in her classes. Sweet lady...i kno many people wont agree, but if u know her like i do... she is just a coconut: Sweet inside hard outside. If she has been your class teacher you might know what i mean!

2. Teacher : Smita (dunno last name)
Subject : chemistry
Assesment: Ok her frist impression was actually not really impressive...infact it was quite depressive... she was new to school and we were her first class...well in the first week itself she had us made her hate her... (for more details wait more my next post)... and i remeber how we all bitched about her in the evaluation paper... later part of the year she had changed eventuallly...i think she got adjusted to the school and us...and we to her...
Teaching wise she was gud...just gud...

3.Teacher : Geetamani
Subject : Biology
Assesment: She seriously has some problem with her pronunciation...i still remember her parenchymatous tissue...and arthropods and echinodermata and more stuff from that classficiation chapter...hehe.
Has a weird haircut(we use call cabbage head in the bus), with her weird owl sweaters (lol!) and not to forget her blouse... necks(ahem ahem!)...
Teaching was ok ok i guess...ninth grade biology didnt require much teaching anyway...you have to by-heart the text book what-soever...she use to give notes...and how i use to wish to tell her that "maam go slow, we are writing not listening, please dont forget that!".
Oh i have to write more about her...she was in my bus...i mean she still is...she is one teacher,who loves to sleep ( wink) and stare... usually she is asleep in the morning and if not...when i enter the bus she has to gimme that i-know-what-you-are stare(obvi she didnt kno what i am!!!lol)...which use to bugg me so much....

4.Teacher : Bindu Thomas
Subject : Maths
Assesment : Had only one hairpin used all year... n a pakka malllu...(oh tht goes for mani too! no offense plzzz!!)that doesnt bother me much...then why i am writing that??? bcoz i dont have any assesment of her, she made me hate my once favorite subject and....no further comments!!!!

5.Teacher :Gibi Cherian
Subject : English
Assesment : She was very slow in....almost evrything possible...but she has beautiful handwriting...use to be only to the point... rarely smiled...even though she had the subject we consider to be the lightest...we cudnt have enough fun with her...but towards the end of year we learn in the hard way...that she was actually a sweet lady... but i have to agree...i am sorry maam ..i slept in every english class!!! specially when ramanajum had to morgaged his land or something and when you, use to play those audio cassettes for us to fill our ah-so-interesting MCBs ( coz mine were already filled)
Explanation was i think Good...i reallyl dont kno...told you...i slept through most of the classes.
but i have to mention this...she is considered not only by me but also by others as one of the most kanjoos teachers!...she just cant give marks... i remember how many times just becoz of english(which is our only hope!) my percentage went where...honestly i dont write that bad...i think i do deserve more than 3 in every ten mark qn!

6. Teacher : Shonali Ganesan
Subject : Hindi
Assesment : When i learnt she was my hindi teacher i was very happy...that my prayers had been answered...i had never had her in any class before, but once in 8th she had come to my class for substitution and this lady won my heart... and i literally prayed that next year let her teach me any subject!!!
As we had classes with her i realised...she is strict,punctual,hated interference in class by any messenger,dedicated,sweet,always ready to help... and more of a friend than a teacher...now you reallly dont get such teachers always... and when you have a teacher like her you actually feel like studying her subject!!! We have had bitter as well as sweet n fun periods with her... I love you maam!!!!

7. Teacher : Akhter Jahan
Subjecy : History
Assesment : One-of-a-kind. UNIQUE. She was one who made boring history enjoyable...we actually use to wait for her period... it use to be so much fun... when she is you teacher you will definatly know current affairs...news was always on her fingertips... her jokes....
"operation successful, patient dead"
"study science and maths...forget history...history is past...study science and maths and become engineers and doctors!!"
"i am from kerala"
"you a hyderabadi...you like to eat baingan...baghare baingan n biryaani????"
"oh i have a lkg girl n a ukg boy"
"no no she's not my daughter...she's neighbour girl"
"50 halala chain...50halala earing"
"oh these britishers thought india was there father-in-laws property."
"girls you should study...or else Mrs.Dhanalaxmi will write love letters to your parents."
"bush thinks afghanistan is his father-in-laws property" there were so many more....endless

We never imagined history and civics could be so enjoyable. We use to look forward to all her periods...She was a gem... you could always look upto her for absolutly anything... i was really close to her by the end of the year and...i am not able to express my feelings in words... MAAM, I LOVE YOU...AND YOU ARE ALWAYS ALIVE IN MY HEART WITH ALL THOSE WONDERFUL MEMORIES. RIP.
Yes those who dont know have guessed it right, she has passed away... but she is very much alive in our memories and will be forever...

8. Teacher : Maimoona (dont kno her last name)
Subject : Geography
Assesment : Strict, to the point...interefered in class matters which got irritating...but overall in the end...we liked her too... gud teacher... use to guide use properly...but since i never really liked geography i never knew her closly enough...so that i can write more about her here.

My first day of ninth...

My ninth...the first day of ninth when i entered the class i wasn't happy at all...all my close friends from 8th, separated as our classes were shuffled because we had to choose a second language ...and everyone chose a different one....or better to say i chose HINDI...n all others FRENCH!

Anyways with a heavy heart and a heavy bag, i entered my ninth class...section A...i dunno why but getting into section A was the only happy thing I foundthen...weird...i kno!

I chose a random seat somewhere near the first bench (OK i am not studious or anything but wanted just get into teacher's good books)...now i don't remember who sat next to me...but it was someone from my 8th class, to whom i wasn't so close that time... and i just remember that out of my whole group...only 1 girl...Tasneem( i almost forgot her!) was with me...i think i sat with her...

In short i wasn't too excited for first day of ninth...like usually one is one the first day of any new session...anyways classes started...and entered NAFIS MAAM...i was HAPPY to see her...because was the best SCIENCE teacher.... then i recalled i wasn't in her very good books(she taught me in 7th!)...but not in the bad books either...so i still had a chance!

Things started like they usually do on the first day of a new session, she introduced herself and we introduced ourselves...n then i realized...i knew many girls afterall, they had been with me in smaller classes...so my first day was not so bad after all...so gradually i found out rest of my teachers, i seem to have ended up with almost all the best teachers...i say almost because i didnt like that Math's lady...see i dont even remember her name!
During the break all classes were empty as everyone was meeting there ex-classmates n friends...n yeah the day passed not as bad as expected...

Nafis maan had another period with us...since she was the class teacher she had to stop getting the class divided into small groups...so she had asked if we would not sit with our old friends and sit with new people...immediately everyone started protesting... but i thought she was right...n i wasn't the only one...some one from the back said, "Yes maam, why don't you change our places so that we get to know each other better."
I immediately liked this girl and noted in my mind that i maybe able to find a good friend in her... (n yes i did...today she is one of my best friends...yes HUSNA its u!!!!) so maam liked the idea...and changed our places....so we all had new partners.

So at the end of the first week...i was successful in talking to that girl(HUSNA U !) n yea things were going well....

Almost caught!

Well it was a day when we had double physics class at a stretch and as usual it was so never-ending with sir going about something(who remembers?)

I was sitting with my friend Mithali who is a very fun-loving and naughty girl... Sitting with her in physics class kept me alive always because we used to do some naughty things to keep ourselves awake!I am usually the type of girl who discourages stuff like this...BUT physics it was so crazy that even i wanted to do something else! :P
So whatever be the topic it was a very boring one and we had to do something to keep ourselves awake...so Mithali tore out a page from her notebook and we started playing a game... I was pretty sure that we werent the only ones playing games in his class...everyone had to do something or the other to be awake...we were playing the very common dots game...even that seemed more interesting compared to the topic which was going on!!
There was another girl Parvathy who was sitting at the other end of the class... i guess she was also planning to play some X and 0's...
Sir was going about his topic on and on... and moving a lot in the class from here to there...so he just came at Parvathy's table and he noticed the paper with a X and ) column drawn on it(parvathy was a little late in hiding it!) n he really went mad...he was like "COME WITH ME TO THE HEADMISTRESS'S OFFICE NOW".
Me n mithali quickly stowed our papers in our bags under our FAT text books... n he continued to scream about how we took physics as a joke n blah blah... he was shouting and moving about the class...he was like Physics is not a game and not a period to play games either...he was almost near to us n then suddenly he turned to me n mithali n was like "do you people play games in my class??"... we were too stunned to say anything so we just shook our heads...
And when he turned away me n Mithali gave each other a stare...we went like "oh my that was Close! Phew!".
This is one day which i will never forget it in my life...where for the first time i intended to do something else in the class other than study and i was ALMOST CAUGHT!!!