Hello? I am Pranavi. Yes. I am ready for our chat. Ho. Our vacation got over. No – no. This is not a conference call. Mumma is in the kitchen. Okay? What? How can I go to school now? We have a lockdown. No? Yes, we have online classes. Going to school is so much more fun but. Ha. I know that teachers give us homework and make us study and also that we have to write tests in school. But still going to school is fun. I like playing and studying with my friends at school.
Yes, the boys do a lot of masti. Everyday. They don’t break the tables. No. They always ask the teachers silly doubts. They have a lot of silly doubts in Maths. Hmmm. Maybe they don’t understand it. I don’t know that. Aaahh…yes, girls also do masti. We walk around the class and chat when the class is going on. But we don’t walk around the class when the teacher is teaching but. We do that only between classes. Yes, sometimes the teacher punishes us. She will ask us to sit outside the class or sit on an empty table at the back of the class. I don’t remember. We talk so much. And I talk “something something” with my friends. Every day.
I like Science and my science teachers too. They always have some activities or experiments in every class. So I like Science. But sometimes I don’t like Science too because our science teacher makes us write “long long” answers and we have to learn them for our exams. I liked my third standard Math teacher a lot because she would make the entire class stand on one side of the classroom and two students stand on the other side. She would then teach us addition by asking us to count the students one by one. It was so much fun. I like Math too. Usually, I get 100 out of 100 in Math but sometimes I get 98 also.
Yes, I had a lot of fun with Niyati and Naman. Sometimes I would sleep with Niyati and sometimes with Naman in the night. His name is Naman. Naa Maa Naa. Not Manan. Okay? Kitchen? No, we never helped my mother or dadi in the kitchen. But we would mop the floor every day. Naman, Niyati and I would mop the floor. Not my brother Keertan. He would walk on the floor after we mopped it.
Sometimes I fight with my brother also. But I don’t remember why. Okay. Wait. I will tell you. I have online classes from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. now. And Keertan comes into the room during the classes and disturbs me. When I start screaming Mumma comes and takes him out of the room. I fight with him when he does such things.
During the lockdown? Oh, we watched Mahabharat and played outside in our garden the whole day. We, Niyati, Naman, Keertan and I talked “something something” the whole day every day. I don’t remember what but. It was about “something something.”
Yeeeesss. I like to go to malls and also to restaurants. The malls here are not as big as they are in Mumbai. But the mall in our town is also nice. I have come to Bombay five times. I like Bombay. Haha…you don’t go to malls in Bombay because of the traffic? Aww…I like Bombay but.
I like to eat pasta and noodles when I go to a restaurant. Keertan like to eat pasta only. My Mumma also makes pasta and noodles. But her pasta and noodles is okay okay. Not like restaurants.
But Mumma makes mast rasam. Rasam and rice is my favourite food at home. Aww. I don’t know what she adds in it. I just know it is mast. Hmmm… I love dadi’s khichdi. It is very nice. Hehehe…Yes. I know Aditi. She is my phoi. She loves chaas bhat? I didn’t know that. And I love rasam rice… Hmmm…yes, it is mast but.
In school, we get khakra, bisibela, curry and roti and things like that. We don’t carry any Dabba to school. For lunch, we get something different like khakhra, chappati, bisibela and all. Yeeesss. I like the food that is cooked at home more.
I like the games and dance period in school. Girls play dodge ball and boys play cricket. I take part in activities too. I won the first prize in diya making competition. My friend won the first prize in the drawing competition. Hmmm.. Yes. My friend and I are different. We are good at different things too. So I can learn drawing from her and I will teach her how to make diyas. Okay?
I go to school by bus. More than 25 times I have missed my bus. I don’t know why. Sometimes I sleep late at night and so get up late. No. I don’t sleep in the afternoons. If I miss the bus, my papa drops me at the next bus stop. Yes. My school is very far from my house. Last year my school was from 7.30 to 2.30. This year it is from 8.30 to 3.30.
Hmmm. Wait. Wait. I try to teach Keertan. Thousand times I have called him. But he never comes only. What can I do? Really? Will he ask me doubts when he goes to school? What? You are asking me if I will solve his doubts after he grows up? I don’t know about that.
Birthdays? So many birthdays I have celebrated. I didn’t say 100 birthdays. I am only 11 years old. How can I celebrate 100 birthdays? Yeees. I have celebrated 11 birthdays so far. It is a lot of fun. Some of my school friends live near my house. So we invite our neighbours and my friends for my birthday party. My Mumma bakes a cake for me at home. It is mast mast. Always. Hmmm. I don’t remember what my dada or dadi or papa give me for my birthday.
Yes, I like my school. But I want to go to Sainik school. Why? See. This is why. Yes. My school is good too. But Sainik school is better. Sainik school is the number one school in Karnataka. Our school is the seventh-best school in our town. See?
Today we had a Hindi, English, Science and Math class. We have four online classes every day. But aaaaa….seee….other schools have only one online class every day from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Finish after that. No school. We have school till 1 p.m. and then we have to do homework also. No. I don’t want to go to that school. I like my school. My Math teacher taught us the distributive property of multiplication today. Yes. We will have online classes till the lockdown ends. The date has not yet been decided.
Niyati, Naman, Keertan and I also played board games, listened to music and watched movies in the afternoons sometimes. Hehehe….Nice…you had no T.V? So you played the whole day during the vacation? We do that too. We don’t watch T.V the whole day. Only sometimes we watch.
Okay, I will send you pictures of my Hindi, English, Maths and Science homework and online classes before Saturday. I know Sanskrit also. Okay, one more picture on my Sanskrit homework also.
3 months? Why so long?Awww…do jaldi jaldi. No? Yippeee….yes, I am happy. After 15 days? Okaaayyyy. I will send you the pictures. Surely. You want to talk to Mumma now? Mummeeee….take…..she’s calling you….