The Confusing Boundaries

Long-time no Non-techi blogging. I’ve been wanting to land here but somehow, I am getting occupied with other things.  I determined to come here today, as I needed a short relaxing break before I focus my mind on the awaiting duties. That bad news  that our department co-faculty’s husband is tested Covid19 positive and he is under critical situation, was continuously hurting me  deeply. The realities of this Covid scenario looks so scary and it is so worrying that she is carrying her second baby while her first child is too little studying in kindergarten. Hoping 100% for her husband’s speedy recovery. Really really hoping,  I know, not only me, the whole world hopes to get that medical solution to put an end to this horrible game.

These days, that one little stuff which is so squeezed up is nothing but our minds. It has to make time to worry for the current scenario, make time to fear for the scenario, make time to live the responsibilities, make time to plan the future and of course make time to calm down, relax and enjoy subtracting the negativities. Felt, there came many boundaries virtually, also in reality and thought I could and should  write on that!

Disclaimer: Sorry for putting up a disclaimer after two paragraphs but I picked up   this idea just here! Please don’t read further if you feel sleepy . This post might get you confused and pull back your sleep😊

Yes, first will try to unwind the confusing boundaries of the mind. I feel all of us have become an anniyan kind of (actually more than Anniyan 😊) split personalities. Earlier it was like, I imbibe that teacher attitude, when I get ready to college after wearing chudidhar/saree. When I am back home, the change of attires, itself taught me the majorly me, I mean transform as a mother /wife/daughter/daughter in law/sister/ etc, when I am back home. Of course, we do attend more work related phone calls and we already had many online works,  but it was not that tough because the boundary was prominent for a teacher job, off-college hours. Now, I sometimes pity my mind that is shuttling between multiple responsibilities. The attires and timings have least role in defining the boundaries. Let me make these points lighter😊. Looks like he is true after all 😊.”It is me….. resides in me…., resides in all of that as me…, talking to me !”. Wow what a far sighted man he is 😊 He told this long back and we all memed him anything. Please, I am not a fan of him and this is purely not a serious statement! Ok let me  take the present life as fun and now after crossing 100 days, it should  no more be a complaint and if you are  working and living a  healthy  life, that means a lot these days and I am thankful for that.

Like my mind, I see many other components suffering from this poor boundary detection scenarios. It is none other than my home. Our living room is a classroom for my daughter, Kavin Nila from 9.30 AM to 12.30 A.M on week days. It transforms as a  dance class for two hours on week ends.  I had to ask sorry to our neighbor, living in the third floor and  We live in fourth floor. My daughter doing that “Thakka Thimmi Thaa” agitations would surely disturb them. Earlier the dance class timings was at 7 AM. Thank god, now it is shifted to 10.A.M 😊  And yes, our living room becomes a  Theatre for a while , park for a while and sometimes becomes, “ratha boomi”  when I see her always watching TV.  Apart from the living room, one room is a software company( ok, not that big, we can call it a,  software cabin ) and the other room as college, ok ok  a  faulty cabin/classroom.

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Yeah coming to these online school classes that my daughter attends, that should be written as  a separate post. School teachers are the most pathetic souls on earth. It needs a lot more patience and passion to become a school teacher. I really mean it. They are paid less, at least, Private school teachers despite the fees being paid, are given less salary but what they deliver to this world is incredible.

Yeah ,my  phone like my home is also confused now. Once it knew the type of calls that it would receive depending on the timings.  Suddenly amidst my official call, some call would constantly coming in along with voice messages 😊 Its none other than my daughter’s friends. “Aunty Kavin Nila va video call panna solreengala”.  They now know to set up a conference video call 😊These kids are also in pathetic situation. It took a lot a time for my daughter to accept this lock down and she used to cry for not able to meet her friends. She even ask me, “when I will go to school and  sit on my school benches?” When the whole world is waiting for the answer how would I tell her. These kids have got well accustomed to this online learning and yes now online playing too. My daughter would arrange all her kitchen toys and set it up as a restaurant and her friends would ask for some food orders. They play for more than an hour and I feel it is fine and it is really required for their mental happiness. Of course, me and my daughter are so bonded, and she treats me like her sibling/friend. She even tells me that she is not able to realize me as her mother most of the times. That is her mind boundary problems and I am not supposed to write on that. What I wanted to convey is that our kids need their friends to keep them mentally happy during this lock down 😊

Yes, family members and friends have intruded a lot in our professional happenings crossing their boundaries. No no I am talking only about the positive things. Without confusing further, I am talking about the online webinars i give. Now they participate and give a lot of inputs. Earlier, when I use to give a talk or give a workshop, It used to be for  a  limited participants and my family members only hear from me. They had to believe what ever I say. Now its all online and my parents, my husband, my brothers and friends are registering for the webinars I give, and they come to know all my jabbering ☹.  I have to mention about my recent experience on First online conference on Tamil Open source technology. It was just so fantastic minus me struggling to balance speaking in pure Tamil and then realized to speak in colloquial Tamil. You can watch the first session of the conference  here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqoJ4eljH0Y  and from here you can find the rest. I would like to thank Dr. Muthu Annamalai who got me this opportunity. I actually knew his name only  through this conference as he used to represent himself as “Ezhil” which is a Tamil programming language he has invented, and he has  contributed a lot to Tamil computing through his Open Tamil. https://ezhillang.blog/category/programming/ . We follow on twitter and one day, he suggested me to write on my Tamil Computing experiences and he has also asked this to the  entire Tamil computing research community and has come up with this awesome aggregation of Tamil computing resources, https://github.com/Ezhil-Language-Foundation/awesome-tamil. Throughout our life, if we look back, many positive happenings would have happened just  because when someone else believed in us . Thank you once again Dr.Muthu Annamalai.

Ok, my neurons are asking for coffee and let me stop here. Hopefully, some scientist would make that most awaiting history of inventing  the solution so that the world resumes to it's  liveliness once again 😊. Meanwhile, let us all love the present life, support each other and yes, grab the maximum positivity possible 😊

Good luck to you and good luck to me 😊

Thanks for reading 😊

Subalalitha

Tale of Uncertainties

Actually, wanted to learn deep learning programming in Python which has become my recent obsession. I am comfortable with Machine learning to an extent but not so with this deep learning stuff. Thought it is  better to learn through programming . I did not do this way for Machine Learning; I mean I learnt the theoretical part first then slowly dived into the Python face of it. Thanks to the Workshops for which I was invited as resource persons. The ground truth is that we will  learn more when we are forced to teach 😊. And yes, thanks to my co-faculty and my friend Karthick who is the main reason behind kindling my interest in Python and he is the one who helped me to conduct all those workshops with ease. Today, I felt I should deviate with the surrounding uncertainties and the best way to deviate according to me is to write and that’s the reason for this blog visit !

Yesterday, Selva showed me a video of how Covid 19 patients are quarantined in temporary hospital arrangements at Chennai Trade centre and Loyola College. It was too scary. Feel like living that 2012 movie. An optimist turning pessimist is not a good sign and let me not do that 😊 Felt like writing about this uncertain life. I think since March 14^th , I am at home.  while I locked my cabin at college on March 13^th, I am sure I did not have any idea that I would be wondering like this about when I will open my cabin again. I am sure not only me, all co faculties who locked their cabins will unlock them with smiles and the classrooms will be vibrant and colourful with students soon.

Always we would have a friend in one of our friend groups,  who would send  these WhatsApp forwards daily and the most frequent one is about “always being happy in this  uncertain life” . May be we ignored that friend as well as that message and his/her curse is making us to learn the fact the harder way 😊.

Many times we won’t know that the good bye we say might be the last one. No No please I don’t mean the worst negative sense it holds. I Feel to those who I waved my good bye on March 13^th might  have thoughts of changing their jobs and we may not even meet again. Saarthak, who is my final year student waved us good bye during  last semester in December and  went ahead with his internship in North India. He was waiting to visit us again in April as we had scheduled his final project viva during that time . Destiny had some other plans. We have planned to  conduct  vivas online and he will leave to University of Toronto for his Masters once these chaos are over!  Saarthak, the world is too small, we will meet someday and staying connected despite the distance is one of the best things for a strong relationship 😊. Let us stay strong 😊

What I am trying  to convey is that goodbyes are to be taken  seriously and it is better to mix smiles with them to make them stay vivid 😊 Also, it is always better to express any positive emotion like revealing gratitude or sorry  on  time. The delays we make, can skip that moment in the whole lifetime of ours☹

Uncertainties may make us lazy as the total life looks hazy ! My parents always scold me and my brothers using Tamil proverbs. I like this one. “அழுதாலும்  உழுதுட்டே  இருக்கனும்” . which means a  farmer is  supposed to keep doing his job even when  in grief. Our grand parents were farmers and may be  that’s why our parents used this proverb to us and  I feel that’s the solution too 😊. With hopes in heart,  we should keep moving ahead with our usual responsibilities. May be this life will choose us if our deeds are much needed for this world. Fingers crossed 😊

I am seriously hoping that I will put an end to this lockdown blog series and  post my last  lockdown write up, the day before  my kid would happily board her school bus and that’s when this  world would be ready for use once again  😊 .  Good luck to me and good luck to you  too 😊  

Have a wonderful day and a happy life  ahead. Thanks for reading 😊

Subalalitha

An Attempt to “Open -Up” during “Lock -Down”

Thought of writing about lock down experiences but its getting extended like anything, also the To-do list is getting lengthier, eventually the mind gets messier and needs definitely a warm-up before jumping in to the TO-DO list . The one thing which makes us always feel guilty is this to-do list. They do not get satisfied most of the time. I always feel had they got the power of emitting emotion they would only emit “Anger” or “Dissatisfaction” 😊 Teaching has become such a multi-dimensional career, and at times, one dimension pulls down the other. Oops, looks like I am sprinkling negativity. Pls Pls erase off your mind, what you read till now 😊 Actually came here to grab a cup of positivity, before I grab my  morning cup of coffee but slipped to do that 😊

This lock-down not only for me but  for all would have been a different experience. Really sad about those who cannot pull out a smiling memory out of this. I am thinking of people suffering due to this Covid and worse than that people facing a huge financial loss. I feel  more than Covid’s  direct attack, the intensity is highly felt in it’s indirect attack, i.e,  financial set back many are facing. I believe, the universe always knows to emerge again afresh no matter how bad the fall was ! Let us hope for the best.

Coming back to my own part, even before the lock down was announced, Selva locked down us a week prior to that. He is always protective and my kid was so puzzled why he is this way when the whole world is roaming around. I had to convince  her with many of his earlier instances. One of the craziest instances would be, he never allowed me to travel alone throughout my entire pregnancy. I was working in Anna University, He always would drop me and I will have to wait till he returns from office to pick me up. He was and still is working in CTS, Mepz, Tambaram and our home was in Velachery. I still remember how I use to wait in the stone benches for him as our lab gets over by 6 PM . His reasoning would be, “I am not even confident on you walking carefully and you cant manage to go home alone". The weird  fact is that, an auto stand is there outside anna university and Velachery is in 15  mins reach from Anna University. I always take his love and care positively and he would be right about me mostly!. The effort he took during that nine months, not sure how many men will do without failing a single day and even after my kid was born he was the one who took more care than me. Blessed me😊. But … yes but… at  times I  I feel he can believe me to take that extra step on my own😊 Still driving is  prohibited to me and I felt during this lock down, it would have been better had I known driving. Ok let me convince him for the rest of my life 😊

Looks like,  I have taken a detour! Passing a day sitting in hall and spending time in kitchen was so boring  initially. Amidst this we had/have college duties, online meetings, Youtube recornings etc. Finding a physical space in our 2 BHK home to separate myself as a mom and a Teacher is not a big problem but allocating a mental space and exhibiting a clear distinction was/is a great challenge. For a kid of course it is hard to accept that  her mom is always with laptop and she needs to sit beside her, watching TV or doing her hobbies and this single child scenarios has its own side effects 😊 . Selva could not help as he needs to be on call, meetings and he got a separate room physically and mentally 😊 Now she also got homework from her school and  from her dance teacher. Yay.. she is also busy now 😊.  Amidst this we did not foresee such difficulty would arise. My kid got fever soon after the lock down started. We had to go to hospital. Only after going to hospital, we came to know that the life outside home is not that scary and that hospital was completely safe. She had a bacterial infection and she had to take three courses of medicine  as the infection got resistant to  each of the course and finally we had to give her injection daily visiting hospital . She is doing fine now. The only problem was to handle kids when they are sick and my lil one makes sure I am awake the whole night and ofcourse  we had to check her temperature and give medicine. All those petty disappointments that arose due to lock down after we faced during this tough time vanished and being healthy and safe inside home is not a bane after all 😊

I was awed by the way the hospital employees work even during this time. Doctors definitely need a big applause but what caught my attention was the other employees i.e the securities, cleaners, nurses who are not paid that high but still they need to come daily risking their life. A group of humans working for the sake of the rest of the human group’s safety and life!  and this is happening worldwide.   This definitely has a lesson in it ! We should  be thankful always for what we have and be polite and kind to others irrespective of  whether they would be useful or useless. It is so weird that most of the world classifies ppl as useful/useless than good/bad.  

Yes regarding colourful happenings,  the song nights we have  listening to all our favourite songs before going to bed,  doing all chores on our own  and sharing them among us.   Me and my kid was craving to have an extended story time and that’s happening these days. I miss my early morning cooking of course, but serving them hot food getting drenched with sweat in kitchen is a happy thing. Yes, my student Saarthak’s interview attempt with me https://youtu.be/I_vdOtJN6rc was a nice experience. The recent one was my birthday😊 Selva’s first cake attempt and my kids’s surprise gifts was a bliss and blessing always. I had switched off my birthday reminder on facebook and my kid had a challenge on me to count on my friends who would call to wish me without any automated reminders. I told her clearly, this challenge is not required in the first place as I know only those five souls  would call (excluding  my family members, parents and in laws 😊). They are none other than my PG friends, Anitha, Vani , Punitha and Kavitha mam and my Tacola friend, Rama who is a scientist now in DRDO . These five have been wishing for more than a decade. 😊 and we take only that birthdays as the opportunity to talk ,taking a time travel backwards definitely at least a  decade before, shedding all those tags before and after our names 😊 I really love that “me” coming out and speaking like I did,  those days. People calling me “Suba” have become so meagre. Ofcourse few professors at our University call  me “Suba” and the rest calls me “Mam”.  Of course, this cant be avoided. I was telling my friends how I miss these informal talks.  I don’t know this Balaji, my Tacola friend of mine talks to me on my every birthday without realizing a single time that its my birthday and wishes me a week later  😊 . This time he got better. Ten minutes after had  called, he realized that it was my birthday and he wished me in our WhatsApp group we have😊 Strange 😊 Having a friend who is not your gender gives you a new dimension to everything 😊 But remembering birthdays and wishing need not necessarily be taken into account in any relationship 😊

That’s the update ! Hope we all grab the maximum positivity out of this lock down and emerge better and continue to fly as high as we can  after our locks are  released 😊 Good luck to you and good luck to me 😊

Thanks for reading

Subalalitha

When Your Clock Suddenly Runs Slow!

My God! My mind was longing for “a daybreak”  this Monday as I felt I have been running continuously up and down both in college and at home. I never knew that mind vibrations are this powerful 😊. This global Corona issue peeped into Tamil Nadu and suddenly my clock started running very slow. I just wanted to skip my yoga today and do some writing. Happiness generators are given priorities always 😊 With lot of panic indeed, thought to let it go for a while and immerse here and get that refreshing dip in this ever flowing river stream! Mind, government can only put orders for the body to avoid going for a trip and never can do the same  for the mind 😊 So mind can be on a holiday, wherever it wants to and I chose to be  here 😊

Obviously, I don’t have anything particular to write but I just wanted to write today!. According to me, translating the language of my neurons to English is one of the jolliest jobs for me😊. Last week I had gone to give a talk in Valliammai Engineering College on “Tamil Computing”.  Nothing comes to it when you just have to walk for few minutes  from your Institution to the invited institution. Yes! The Valliammai college is  in our campus ! The head of the Computer Science department seemed to have like- mind with me and we were discussing about  teaching as well as parenting 😊 Speaking to a like mind is one of the ways of making your time valuable 😊. Yeah, I am coming to the point. We were talking about the students feedback to teachers .  Previously it was only numerical scores given by the students to us now along with that they have included written comments also. I was telling her that a person cannot lie while writing his/her thoughts. She said yes it is true 😊 So don’t get upset with me and that was the point I was trying to make here 😊. The reason why I like writing is that it prevents me speaking lies and its true that which most of my friends would know that I don’t speak lies. May be, I reveal less details for good 😊 , Yes believe me😊 ( try reading believe me in Vadivelu slang, you will attach a smile to your face 😊 did you ? wow 😊 . thanks! you believed in me 😊 )

OK I started this post so I have to continue and I have to end it without irritating the reader. So, yes, what can happen to you  when your clock suddenly runs slow. Will you feel that jerk you get when a sudden brake is applied on a car or you take It cool and grab the positivity? Think about it and plan your thoughts . Anyways, here are my thoughts and plans 😊. Foremost!  spending more time with family😊 Which was totally  missing ! Monday to Friday, I  would only have the time to say that hurry-bye to my two loved ones at home while they both would have just got up to gear up their day 😊 Saturday and Sunday  also seemed so busy for the past few months . That’s why Selva would get irritated with me when I accept to work  on Saturday/Sunday. He just don’t like me leaving home on weekends as he is already worried of me, getting less sleep which is 6 hours accurate on week days!.  I feel that’s enough for me but still, he feels that way 😊 . Now this can be alleviated spending time with them 😊 Me and my daughter have few movies, songs and activities to be watched/ done together.

Ans yes, my independent research was left aloof and its still hanging on the air ! I will continue with that. Hoping so 😊 and yes that Youtube channel which I did not care much this semester can be given more care 😊.Also, I need to plan videos for the not- taught portions for my  students as they are going to straight away take up the final semester exams  😊 I have been thinking of writing some Tamil stuff for long time but postponing as my time zone did not permit my mind zone in! 😊 will do it 😊. Many more plans are flashing on my head but my neurons are hiding from me as of now, may be they will be revealed and I will get clarity on that soon 😊

Along being so cautious, and hoping that all my family members , friends, students are safe, also would want to cross  this hazy cloud  with smiles 😊

Good luck to you and Good luck to me 😊.

Thanks for reading 😊

Subalalitha

What Growth Costs :)

Its been a quite long time, since I visited this  spot of mine 😊 Today did not actually wanted to blog but felt like writing and I thought of attempting a Tamil poem but squeezing my lil brain which is already damn tired, din feel like a good idea! So took up this mind freshening task. I exactly have 45 mins for my daughter to return home from her dance class, so will rush up  my flow of thoughts .Few days back, I wrote about my National Engineering College NLP workshop experiences but I felt It was too much of emotions exhibited which might not be captivating, so unpublished the post 😊 Yes I am grown up and I should now know what to express and what not to 😊.  At sometimes, that is becoming so tough too. Always having the mind  and speech under strong control and behaving like a matured person in front of students and  peers (ofcourse one or two exceptions exist 😊) is so traumatic !. At the end of the day, things have to be executed the way the  life demands ☹  

Sometimes, I curse myself for growing old. No No, not trying to spread negativity 😊  Ofcourse I am enjoying motherhood and yeah wifehood, sisterhood, daughterhood, daughter-in-law hood , sister-in law hood etc etc.of which,  the first two hoods are my favorite! Why because those two hoods don’t need me to control my mind or speech. I can blabber anything to both of my loved ones at home and they understand  me perfectly😊 Yes blessed me 😊. I am only minding the external world  which demands a heavy mind and speech control which becomes so difficult and at times, develops a lot of head ache. To be precise, what I feel is that I rarely see the fun part of the external world these days.  This is the cost , that is thrown while climbing up the ladder in career as you grow older.

I rarely see myself laughing out of control these days outside home. I mean, I miss my  purest form of laughter. I surely  miss TACOLA  friends sometimes. Recently, I noticed that my Tacola friend Balaji who  used to call monthly once started  calling me  weekly once.  Even if I don’t pick up and forget to call back, he will call the next day and speak during his lunch hours. Later, I realised, this is happening only after he became the research head in his office. I started listening to him and allocated time for him  after that. Sometimes you don’t realize until u undergo 😊.The ground truth is that as u elevate in your career, you will not have true friends around and  even if you have, they won’t match your real personality.

Its also true that expressing you as you to all wont work (Yes I am grown up 😊).  It disappoints when sometimes people who are nice to you don’t seem to be nice to their juniors at workplace. The reliability  scales down on them and definitely u cant make friendship with them.  May be that is how life is and has to be accepted the way it is. The fun part shrinks at workplace as and when u grow old and yeah as and when  u get that thickening neurons as well 😊. I do have friends may be one or two to whom I am expressing “the real I am “  at workplace 😊 again blessed me 😊

Any darker side do have a brighter side and that ray of hope do exist and visible always :). What I have gained is that I have become cool and I am able to solve my problems on my own. My unconditional policies have strengthened like anything these days. I rarely mind  the attitude of others. No matter they are right or wrong, I am moving forward and taking decisions which are mostly justified ones. Yeah, I am able to take decisions in which I was weaker previously.

My time is up and I hope this post is not showing up  negativity. I love my life always however it feels like. I will grab the maximum positivity possible and find happiness in all possible niche of it:) Yes  of course, I will keep  spreading love and happiness 😊

Thanks for reading

Subalalitha

Story Teaching Experience -Part 2

Actual plan of today was not to blog but to code my independent research. After publishing my Kurunthogai in a SCI indexed journal as a single author, I developed the desire of writing single author paper every year. It gives much confidence and independence. Yeah, independence gives confidence 😊 Ok I need to tell now why I came here. Two reasons I have . Today is the last day of my winter vacation and mostly I choose to write on my last day of vacation and yes, I have to write about my Story Teaching experiences that I had this week. It wont come fresh if I delay that as my my neurons have become weak in retaining things 😊. Last day of vacation always induces a mixed thought into arteries and neurons. Wanting to extend this vacation and also  not wanting to !. Actually my daughter was having school during my holidays so she liked me waving her bye  and receiving her with hot snacks each day. I have already told this here. I used to ask the same question in different forms, yeah its none other than , “you are happy  when I am on a holiday  so shall I quit job?” She always replies, “No. You don’t need to. I am happy at day care too 😊”. She is the energy behind us. Though sometimes she calls me to come home soon but that is only a momentary thing. Earlier, I used to rush home not waiting for the college bus. I thought I am making her happy by picking up early . She once said, you are not giving me time to play with my friends because the moment she reaches from school, I am there to pick up her from day care 😊 I feel she is more matured than me. Selva will be happy reading this as he always says this. She gives a lot of clarity  to many things for which I get confused easily. Kids when they are independent may be gaining a lot of clarity 😊  Of course, she messes up  most of the time, as she is also a kid 😊 We will be done with our  life if I and Selva raise her  as a responsible and a good human being. Already she is 😊 but still 😊 That will be the greatest contribution to this society as the parenting is the culprit most of the times ☹ Yeah done with my long long first para ever 😊 sorry for this 😊

Vented my mixed thoughts and I am convinced to go to college tomorrow😊. So here I should start about my story telling experience. There is a Pre-School named, Crayons which has right from play-school till UKG. And it is near my home.  It also has day care, dance classes, Karate classes etc. .Ms. Priya, the director of Crayons is an M.Tech , Computer Engineering graduate,  who quit  her teaching job as she could not find a good day care for her kid and started this and has grown this well as a school today 😊  That’s the great thought out of a woman 😊. That is helping out many working women including me   😊.  She is a Bharath Natyam Dancer and she is the guru of my daughter as well 😊 . Being a mom of 2 very small kids the way she is running the school is inspiring!  And yeah she gives job to those who cant have a career due to family situations. Many Ex- Software engineers work there as teachers. Also my flat friend, Savithri, who used to act with me in dramas at our apartment is also working there. Savithri  actually wanted to go for job but her husband wanted her to be with kids. So this job from 10 am to 1 pm is giving her super satisfaction 😊  Ms. Priya is enlightening many women’s life . Positive Women always empower women 😊 .Last year, I told her my idea of story spinning and  here it is  http://subalalitha.blogspot.com/2018/08/story-spinning-experiences-with-kids.html She supported that and had a session in her school on a Sunday.

With Ms. Priya 

              Last week when my daughter did not go to day care and  Ms. Priya came to know that I am on vacation so she called me if I could teach stories to her Pre-KG, LKG kids during school timings. I readily said yes. This time she wanted me  to teach some moral stories to kids . I just picked up some 5 to 6 six stories online. I was  tensed 😊. Standing before college students  never gave me any fear but this one gave 😊 .  It is not so easy to make them even sit for a while. I started the session . A kid went near the  big mirror which was placed on the wall and started dancing 😊 Many started lying on the carpet on the floor. It took much time to even make them settle but as soon as they started listening, they were keenly doing that.I  wanted to ensure if they have understood. SO I repeated many times and we asked questions to them. Savithri said, let us give chocolates to the students who answer correctly, Many answered correctly but four to five could not get chocolates. Savithri was strictly saying not to give when they are not answering. I did feel they all need to be given but they have to answer also correctly . Teachers helped me. They gave multiple answers and many could strike a chocolate. Still few were left and Savithri don’t seem to relax her policy. She is my friend and I can convince her easily 😊. I asked silly questions like, “what is the colour of my dress”, “what is the name of this teacher” when nothing worked, I even asked, “what is your name?”. Yes finally gave chocolates to everyone 😊 . Kids are awesome. Yeah I cant let down my college students also . They are also kids to me 😊 a bit grown up kids 😊. Getting a true smile, true love and true words have become so costly these days outside home ! You can get all these with 100 % accuracy from kids. That makes them special 😊 That gives back the happiness to the arteries and the everlasting joy ! Had a satisfying day and I really thank Ms. Priya for the invite and giving the opportunity for the second time 😊 I am posting photographs  to add some more memories 😊

Eager to answer my question

Helping him to get a Chocolate :)

Savithri is helping the kid to narrate back the story taught :)

With the School Team 

True Smiles and True Love :)

Thanks for reading !  Have a great day ahead 😊

Subalalitha