3 Suvira

Imacine that vou have to leave your school

because your
another city. Discuss the
How would you teel about
tollowing questions in the class. family is moving to
How would you teel about
having to leave?
If
a new student
having to join another school?
joins your class, how would
you help the new student
settle in?
Inthis story, the narTator
recalls how
dithcult it
goes on to tell how her
recognition from her
courage and was-tor-her-te-changeschools.
determination to succeed won her
mid-term. She
the
new
schoolmates. acceptance and
ivedin this school in the middle of its
It couldnt beterm.
luakenasharn
Our lLurn. He had
resigned from his
helped. My fathers ife had
family had to pack up and leave our job and decided to change tracks
in his
friends, especially Anu. And now our hometown. It was awtul saying
ng to cope' with the lives were turned goodbye to all

e,
changed circumstances as best as weupside down and each one of us
except wait and hope that this cloud could. But there was
too would have
its silver nothing
lining.
My second day in the new school
was marked
with excitement.
Trials were taking place for
inter-school athletics meet. The school the
to be chosen teams were
and finalized.
favourite for cach event. Every house had its
Packets of
last-minute energy boosts had been glucose for
those who were kept ready for
participating.
I sat near the track,
off the
shaking my legs to keep
mid-January chill. And also, I guess, the
nervousness. I had come trom Calcutta with its
warmer climate, and was unprepared tor the sting 3

y with something dificult e