With my misty eyes, I could just see the little hands stretching out of the school bus for me. That scared look in his eyes and the fear that he is left alone in that new environment made my chikoo look worried. Finally the big day in everybody’s life was there in front of him “THE SCHOOL”.
There was a strange feeling when he boarded his school bus. He could see his aai, baba, ajji, athya, kaku with him and waving happily in excitement. There were lot many things going on in his mind .lot many question why?, how?, where?, will I?. We followed the school bus and all through my way my eyes constantly searched for my little one in the school bus.
Time flew so fast! I never realized that my little darling had grown up and it’s his first day to school. The memories of his birth were still so fresh in my mind and tears rolled down as thoughts flooded down my mind. Suddenly one jerk in the car and I saw the school bus taking a different route to the school. I started panicking as his eyes would search for us as soon as he gets down the bus.
I got down the car and hurried to reach him as he was crying but realized that suddenly the distance between us was so much that I couldn’t even run to pacify him….
But the confusion, the fear we had, all dropped down to zero when we were in the school. We had a warm welcome from the principal, followed by the school prayer and a small meeting...The excitement we saw in chikoo when we took him to his class was worth watching!!
He softly introduced himself to his teacher; we had some commitment exchanges with his teacher and thus chikoo’s first day in the school ended on a cheerful note.
When we came back home, I was very worried that how he will get accustomed to the school environment, eating habits etc…but my chikoo unaware of the fact that it was just his first day at school and that he will have to face a lot many challenges in the new environment, with the new ppl... started his favorite pass time “His car and the bikes show”
