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Virtual Classrooms: The life force of a Newbie during lockdown


              Rudransh Saxena, Class 5



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               On March 21  2020, during the                    Studies and schooling were never so
               Covid-19 pandemic, I came to this                much  fun!  Subjects  were  never  so

               beautiful city of Kolkata. Having                interesting.  My  teachers,  never  so

               infinite dreams and hopes about my               supportive.  They’re  the  best  ones
               new school in my mind.                           I’ve ever got! My heart pumps with

                                                                joy  when  I  hear  my  adorable
               Every day I would get up and open                nickname ‘Ruddy’ given by my class

               my new school books and turn their               teacher!  ‘BINGO!’  in  the  math  class
               pages.  This  would  make  me  feel              pushes  me  forward  in  my  weakest

               happier  and  brighter.  I  was  excited         subject!  Hindi  was  never  so

               and  eagerly  waiting  to  enter  the            interesting before! The true meaning

               campus  of  my  new  school  and  was            of discipline I learn in every English
               looking  forward  to  making  new                class. Science is all done in the class

               friends.  But  all  my  hopes  were              itself!  No  one  can  make  me  do  the

               shattered  as  the  lockdown  was                sketches as my best drawing teacher

               announced.        My      life    changed        can!  And  yes!  now  I  can  sing  and
               thereafter. Every day, I would feel a            dance  too!  All  this  magic  has

               rush of anger since this incident took           happened  in  my  new  school  DPS

               place.  I  became  restless  thinking            Newtown!
               about my new school. I felt isolated,

               sad  and  all  alone.  The  lockdown             Thank  you  to  all  my  dear  teachers,

               extended  further  making  me  more              and  my  principal  ma’am,  for

               miserable.                                       including me in the DPS family and
                                                                giving  me  this  virtual  platform  to
               After many gloomy days, the best                 learn and to make new friends! Gone

               thing that happened in the lockdown              are  the  days  of  loneliness  and

               was my entry in my virtual                       sadness! My life is now joyful in the
               classroom, which turned out to be my             city of joy!

               life force and happiness.



                              Background illustration  by Karnav Agarwal, Class 5
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