Part 2: Pre- primary school days.

So after almost 8 months of somewhat getting used to a 'school' life, preschooling was completed. The time had come for my parents to secure an admission for me in a good school where I would be completing my pre primary, primary and secondary education. I managed to get an admission into Sacred Heart High School, a convent. Before the pre-primary school started, I was just back from a long summer holiday with my grandparents and the first day of Jr Kg class (pre primary) was much like the first day of preschool for me. Crying my eyes out for mom, new atmostphere, new noisy characters and to my pleasant surprise, Ketan sitting in the very class I was supposed to be in !!! I was a bit happier, on seeing him. We recognised each other. From then on after a few days, we both got adjusted to the surroundings. And we never missed a chance to sit with each other on a common desk. Our pre primary teacher was a very nice lady and let us sit with each other sometimes. The children who went by the school bus used to leave 15 minutes before the others. So half the benches emptied when those 'bus children' left. And a few of us others were the only ones left in the classrooms. Ketan and I then used to keep shifting and changing our places from bench to bench together within that 15 minutes........now that I think about it..........Dont know why we did it.........but maybe it was because we enjoyed watching the classroom from a 'different angle' each time we sat on a different desk !!. It was like some sort of achievement for our kiddish minds......that switching of places. School time over, we used to go to our respective homes and come back the next day to ol' school !!! That was our routine, back then.
As kids, I feel that our potential to 'socialize' is limited. I, as a kid, was quite shy and it was a long time, before, I accepted any new familiar faces as 'friends'. In those terms, Ketan was the only friend, I had in my class at that time. And even if I did get familiar with the other kids, none were 'friends'. Mom once later told me that both of us used to cry if either one did not come to school !!!