In front the school my mother was arguing with government school teacher for not allowing to sit in the classroom. I was only 7year old that time and my understanding of the situation was not that good. According to me the teacher who is not allowing me to sit in the classroom was like villian in the story. On other side my mother was like hero who is fighting for the justice but the reality was very sad.
Actually these all things happen due to misunderstanding between teacher and my parents. Earlier my cousin was admitted in that school but he quit the school from the middle and at that time me and my parents move back to our hometown from city. So my parents decided to get that seat of my cousin for me so my mother was arguing with teacher to replace my cousin and allow me to sit in the school on his place.
At that time I was also not aware about the official work that teacher need to do to admit me on the place of other student. And my mother was uneducated who don't know anything about this situation.
At the end the teacher allowed me to sit in the class but I felt this teacher is going to definitely misstreat me in the future. But luckily nothing happen. Here the my mother was victorious as she was able to change the decision. On other side my teacher was defeated.
This is one and only school in radius of 10 kilometres from my house and it is one of the closest one. The school had only four classes and all four classes are taught by single teacher. It was very hectic work but what can teacher do about it he still tried his best to teach us.
We had 4 classes from grade 1st to 4th. During this time the number of failing and dropout was very high in my hometown it was upto 70%. Because after 4th grade student need to attend another school which is located 15 kilometres away from original school and all students from nearby area they all live in their own farm land. So distance from each student's house was twice.
During this time having bycycle was like having Royal Enfield at home. It considered as luxury item. In my house also we have two bycycle one was used by my grandpa and another used by my uncle. And student who manage to passed fourth grade need to use bycycle and students from poor houshold were not able to afford it so they used to quit the school after fourth grade.
Another obstacle for these students was passing the fourth grade as it was very difficult for some students because during this time teachers were allowed to fail the student who is not able to get good score or we can say more than 35% marks in each subjects.
I started attending the school and made some acquaintance with children of my age. Mostly they become your childhood friends for me they were just acquaintance because they were coming from big families but I was only child from my houshold and live far away from them. These children's were having their big brothers or sisters to protect them but I was alone and due to that sometimes there were clashes between me and then but I never back down I was like prideful person who never accept defeat.
There was one instance when one child from these neighbouring houshold had fight with me and I beat the shit out of him until his mouth start bleeding. But later his elder brother came and beat me thouroghly. I was not able to fight against him but I woved that one day I will take revenge and I came to my house for next few weeks I didn't do anything and they did nothing but few days later I got an opportunity to take revenge on the eldest brother when he was going to deliver the milk at milk collection center. I took one log of long wood and threw it such way that it will directly get inserted in his tyres. At that time I was hearding my goats and sheeps and I use this pretense to put log in his bycycle. He felled from his bycycle and collapse on the ground along with his kattles of milk. Because of this fall he got injuries on his knees and elbows. When he asked why I did it I said I was just using that log to pull down the branches of trees so my goats can eat the leaves of the tree but accidentally the log got slip from my hand and it got inserted into your bycycle. I pretended very innocent. Even later he complain to my grandpa but I told the same story with same face.
No one said anything about this and consider this as an accident. I was also very very satisfied after taking this revenge.
That day I realised that my pride is very big and I never forgive my enemies.
After this incident the news about I triping this guy spread in the school and many students started to stay away from me. I felt very proud of myself. I felt like I become little goon from 2nd grade class.
During my first year of schooling I was not able to learn anything. Even I was not able to recognise alphabets and numbers. I was very week in studies but during exam I used to copy all things from other students even their names too. But still I was able to pass my second grade and got admitted to 3rd grade.
During the summer holidays after the final examination I don't know what makes me able to read but suddenly I thought I can recognise those letters and by combining them I can read the words and this was Eureka movement for me and I took out my old 2nd grade books and started all the chapters again. I went on reading spree everyday because when I was hearding my sheeps and goats I was alone so these books become my source of entertainment. In early few days I done reading all books after that I took out the books of my uncle those were very old books and consisted of language subjects and social science and I intentionally avoided the books which are containing numbers as I was very weak in maths.
In entire summer holidays I spend my time reading these books many of these terms were new to me but I kept reading them and tried to guess the meaning of these terms like atmosphere, climate, biosphere, planet. Even now also I remember that I used to harass neighbouring children's whom I used to meet while hearding the sheeps and goats and used to asked them the meaning of these words.
My days were passing slowly and everyday was like my happy time with my heads. Slowly entire summer holiday passed and new academic started from 6th June 1999 and the begining of the new chapter of life.