My name is B.Prarthana. B stands for Babu. How can I go to school now? They are closed. No? Before the lockdown, I used to go to school at 8.45 a.m. and return home at 5.45 p.m. After school hours I would sit in my classroom itself and do my homework. My father drops me and picks me up from school. So I have to wait for him in the school itself. Other children also wait with me. And sometimes we go out and play too.
Now our teachers send us videos over WhatsApp. We transfer it to a pen drive and connect it to the TV. But I don’t understand everything that they ask us to study. So I just do whatever I understand and leave it. How can my parents help me? They are busy. My father and mother go to work. And even after they return from work they are busy the household chores. My brother is busy with his homework and projects. So I study how much ever I can on my own only.
Yes, I can cook egg rolls. See. First, you have to take some oil, add some mustard seeds and jeera and asafoetida and turmeric powder and salt and one onion also. When all this gets cooked, we have to break an egg and put it in that and allow it to cook for some time. And they turn out very well too. Yes, it tastes super. My parents ask me to tidy up my room and I do whatever they ask me to do.
Yes, my brother and I fight a lot. He does not allow me to watch whatever channel I want to see on our TV. He will see what he wants only. So I will quietly switch off the TV when he does this and run away outside. We play games like cricket and badminton but. No, we don’t fight much while playing.
One day my mother bought a new scale for me. But my brother took it away from me, gave me his old scale and asked me to use that for my work. I was very upset when he did that. And when we were talking about it the scale fell down and I stepped on it by mistake. So it broke. Did you see the locker that my brother made out of cardboard? I saw him making it and helped him a little when he was making it.
After I finish studying I will draw something in my drawing notebook and watch some craft channel on our TV. I like doing craftwork. Yes, I will send you my drawings after we finish talking. I have drawn an angel, frog, fairy…things like that.
I love the lemon rice that my Amma makes for me. She makes excellent puttu too. No no. She doesn’t put the banana inside the puttu maker. She will give me a banana alongside the puttu. She will keep it in the plate next to the puttu. We need a special kind of puttu flour to make puttu. Okay, I will send you those pictures whenever she makes it. For now, I will send you only my drawings.
Once when I was in second standard, my teacher hit me on my head with a heavy book. I always do all my homework on time. I was just seeing if the girl sitting next to me had also done it. So she called me a buffalo and hit me with that book. Yes, my head started aching badly. My parents were worried too. My mother came to our school the next day and talked about it to our principal. After that, they shifted that teacher to another class. I think she has left the school also now.
On another day a girl pushed me off the corridor when we had gone down to drink water. No one else was there. I just climbed up again and returned to class. No, I didn’t complain about it because I thought the girl would do the same thing again to me if I talked about it to others.
My best friend’s name is Ilaiarasi. We never fight. She is my best friend because she gives me whatever I want and I am her best friend because I give her whatever she wants. We have boys and girls in our class. No the boys are all good only. They don’t do any mischief.
I like going to school. But I don’t like doing so much homework. They give us lots of homework. And my fingers ache a lot when I have to do so much writing. Once they gave us all so much homework and I had to do it all. My entire hand got swollen. My father had to put a bandage around my entire hand to stop the swelling. I couldn’t eat on my own too. My father fed me my lunch and dinner at that time. My head also aches a lot when we get so much homework. But we have to study. And we have to do our homework too. So I do whatever I have to do.
English is my favourite subject. And Hindi also. I get around 90 marks in English and around 78 or 79 marks in Hindi. Yes, I like Science also. But English and Hindi are my favourite subjects. Not because I get good marks. I just like studying those subjects. That’s all. No, I don’t have anything else to say. Yes, I’ll ask my mother to talk to you now.