For Navaratri week at school, we take off from all study and participate in fun competitions such as singing, dancing, essay and poem writing, etc. I am of course taking full participation in the competitions I am able to join, however events such as Tamil essay writing are not among them. On Thursday the competitions were of singing, dancing, and instrument playing. The first few were good to watch and my attention span was pretty good, but as it neared one and a half hours of sitting cross-legged on concrete, was beginning to seizure. The entire day was spent like this, and it was honestly amazing the discipline these kids had. They would just sit and watch and sometimes talk, especially when it neared those rare and short breaks, but they rarely moved. They actually told each other to “sit properly” when one of them changed position, but it was mainly directed at me.
Friday was the same, but this time we sat for about 45 minutes cross-legged on concrete until it rained and we moved six entire grades to a hall where there literally wasn’t even enough room for us to sit cross-legged. We took turns letting them down and squeezing them against our chest. There weren’t any fans because it was outside and let me just say that being that close together in that heat was uncomfortable for anyone with any sense of personal space or a nose. THREE HOURS later we were released from the hall, or we would have been had we been able to walk.
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