Seven Years of KVJ!!!

Finally it's 8th july again. Coming again as a reminder of the day I joined KVJ in 2002. Seven long years - even though I studied there only for 5 years, I keep visiting whenever I get the chance...

VIII-C : Couldn't have Wished For Better!!!
So I ended up in VIII-C. I guess it went like a cycle. 'A' section in Hindon, 'B' in Jodhpur - and now 'C'. (Incidentally, I went back to 'A' in XI.) So I got admitted on July 6, 2002 (Saturday) and joined school on July 8 (Monday). Then began the roller coaster ride which eventually ended in 2005 with us getting out of X-C and entering senior secondary. But those three years - would never come back....

When I joined KVJ, I didn't wish for any particular section. But now I feel that if I had been in any other section, I would've missed some of the very best days school life can offer....

The Class Which Was....
So this was the class which had the old stalwarts (should I call them so) - Hannah, Shreyasi, Tarun, Chitra and Vindhya among others, none of whom lasted till the climax class of X-C. Some left school, and others were thrown into other sections by force. And they were the ones who made VIII-C what it was - though the newcomers were quite a revelation. Mainak and Arun - studs in their own right, and climbing to the top in the academic ranks. Shreyasi was another notable "rookie" minting gold in the academic mine. I still remember our social teacher Mrs.Kamalakshi Agarwal scolding the class after the half yearly exams - I had got 98 and Mainak 95, the rest were way below us. I can still imagine her screaming,"You dead moronic children!" (That was her favourite dialogue). And she refused to take our class in IX, preferring the 'D' section. (But I guess she might've repented it later on - after all we were the ones notching two 480+ scores in the board exams.)

And incidentally, I was the quite guy in class - a reputation which lasted no longer than a year. For in IX and X, I was known as the chatterbox - I wonder what brought about this drastic change!

The Shock of the Year!!!
So the academic year passed by without much happening (or maybe my memory fails me). Then the final exams - and the results. And I hear my name being announced on stage for topping in VIII class with a "100 in Hindi". I was like "100 in Hindi???" (Mind, I had a really stingy hindi teacher in Jodhpur who gave me 64 in VI and 72 in VII - and I was the topper in both cases). So getting 90+ itself seemed quite impossible to me. But 100? No one could believe it - not me nor my teachers. And I had many people requesting my hindi "scribbles" - I don't think they were good enough to be called notes. And in the end, I didn't give them to anyone - what if they ask,"You got 100 by studying these?"

Frankly, I have no idea how I got 100. Later when was in IX, I went and saw my answer script solely to see it for my own eyes. And I find 99.5 on my script - .5 marks deducted for an essay, full marks everywhere else. Mainak had got 98. A stroke of luck maybe....


VIII-C was never that special to me - but it was the first step towards X-C. The first step to fun'n'frolic!!!