I am truly LOCAL!

I was never a bright kid at school, always average, fat and a failure in Maths, but a few things from my school life I will never forget, so I put down 20 things.

For those who went to international schools, you might not get this, sorry! I am truly LOCAL!

1.       Ann, Taro, Muru , Geetha , Saman are some names I will never name my children after.

2.       An Areca-nut doll is the best thing I played with.

3.       The desert I was prude to know that I can make was a pink “poll – toffee” and pulped fruit salad.

4.       “Biscuit and Tea” I still find it hard to say it

5.       My Maths book was bigger than the “word of God” – so I prayed on it, and never studied it! :)

6.       “Radiant way” is a must!

7.       I still remember – sing, sing, sing, sing mother sing, mother can sing……..

8.       My spine is still not fixed after carrying those heavy books to school.

9.       If the play “dear departed” is ever staged in Sri Lanka I don’t think anyone will ever go for it! ( I had it with that play)

10.   Cutting a shoe flower in to two was my biggest scientific observation.

11.   The best example that my teacher was able to come up with to teach me about Re- production was a FLOWER! Errrr!!!

12.   Sex education is something I never learned.

13.   “Miss Can I please use the wash room please” this was taught to all in my class, if we had to use the luu, we had to say this, why do these teachers want to know what we do in the toilet.

14.   Blue and white – I will never combine this even in a fashionable need.

15.   History was always too old, for me to understand

16.   The biggest trip that I had  to make was to the Museum,

17.   Ann, Taro, Muru , Geetha , Saman  never heard these names after grad 4.

18.   Shakespeare Drama Competition was the coolest thing to be a part of.

19.   Giving that absent letter was always a task.

20.   Most of what I learnt at school never came in use.