Somethings never change

Hey long time no post.... so here it goes.

I visited 18 school road...which is to say SBOA school and jr college ...a week ago...it looked strange.....almost alien....lotsa buildings......there is even a building around the basketball court....(imagine!)

The staff rooms resemble office spaces with proper cubicles and all that...the class rooms are the same.....the students look familiar... a group of girls giggling near the model school building (near the boys tiolet) ..... a couple of boys putting on their football boots before practise....

I was shokced to see the same grand old basketball coach teaching small kutti girls to overcome their mindset about the tall daunting basketball post....

Srinivasalu (pardon spell) .....with his customary frown ...shook his head and said "do some excersie daily" ...when I told I did not have much time, he said "Dont give excuses"....Somethings never change...

I met John Gerand.... and got a reco from him....he was very nice....remembered all the plays I had acted in...their names even....remembered my speeches... I remember the first time I fell in love with writing ....It was in 11th class...I had written a piece ....and he had asked me to read aloud...in class along with a few others....After I had finished mine...he said " Two things make up a written work- matter and manner.... when the former is solid and the later is beautiful...the piece works...I want you all to learn it"...

I bid him and other english teachers farewell...I kind of remember the time in 12th when I was meeting him on a saturday....for some magazine related work...he fainted in front of me....they took him to hospital.....he was in intesive care for a week...a god fearing good soul..he was...he pulled through....

Yesterday my mom told me that he had another heart-attack.... the day after I met him....he is in a hospital in Madurai... its his last year of service...he has no children...his only love was the work he did...teaching students to love english.... A life worth it i guess.

Somethings never change...and some people never die.