Friday, January 8, 2010

02/01/10: No time for class! Shady! Sad! :-/


03/01/10: Hemant and his cousin Dhananjay had come. Tushar and Mahesh and Sham were trying to say things like- "Well... Been ages since Didii took us to BC..." :') So BC it was!

Then somebody somewhere said "Cricket!" And off they all went! And came back in negative time with 2 bats and a blue plastic ball! Hoof! I was to have a tough time today!

But then immediately we had a deal. I told them, you can play, but only after 16 minutes of study. Jitnaa study utnaa khel!

Thus we started with the homework problem at BC. None had done it at home anyway. :) With some difficulty, they calculated the length and breadth of the 3 strips of our flag. Which came out to be 12 and 2.66... (recurring decimal).

By this time some of them were already putting up the stupms! :D Then they played! They fought! When I tried to give some technical suggestion, Mahesh looked at me and asked, "Have you ever even played this game?!" And thus I knew who was the student then! :D :)

Enough! 16 minutes of cricket! Back to study with lots of mental resistance from all kids. Now since each strip is of equal size, its area could also be found by dividing the whole flag area by 3. But then, 12*8/3 didn't match with 2.66*12!! Why?! What if we calculated 2.6666*12?? Which is bigger among 2.66 and 2.6666??

Thus it continued. With an increasing demand for cricket! :D But then there was no cricket since Tushar and Mahesh and Irfan didn't pay attention during the study time. No one student can be separated from the class. If even one student does something "bad", the entire class will have to face the consequences. Unity!

During the second study time, Tushar and Irfan had an argument which broke into a violent fight. Terrible. All the way back to Patil Estate we tried convincing them both...

P.S.: Dhananjay left early. But he had fun. New volunteer in the making?? ;-)

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