There are many many types of schools in India, but none leave a more lasting impression than them convent schools. Once you’ve been to one, you are changed for life. You might be unaware of this, but there are several obvious tell-tale signs that you have been to a convent school in India, and we bring you our pick of the lot! 1. You automatically pull your socks up and tug your skirts down. 2. Those hymns you learnt at school still haunt you. Whenever you hear “As theDeer” play, your lips move almost voluntarily to the lyrics of the hymn. 3. The only type of handwriting you have is cursive ’cause you were made to fill up bucket-loads of cursive writing books in junior school! 4. The sight of nuns still scares the crap out of you. 5. You might not be Christian, but a prayer in your head always begins with “Our Father in Heaven…” 6. You feel morally distraught and pangs of guilt rush through your body every time you don those “sinful” short dresses! 7. People who don’t know you think you are too well-mannered. 8. Your classmate spots you outside school with a boy, and responds with an over-the-top “Hawwww!” 9. You are a complete grammar Nazi. 11. You dreaded your moral science lessons, but had this niggling feeling they were far more important than any other subject. 12. You’ve had Catholic holidays for Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday. 13. You are transported back to your school days every time you look at plaid fabric! 14. You had school tournaments named after nuns. Remember Mother Veronica Inter Carmel Basketball Tournament? 15. Christmas celebrations were the high point of the school year, with carol singing and play practice starting almost two weeks prior to Christmas! 16. You involuntarily begin all your meals with “Thank you, God, for the food we eat, thank you, God, for the birds that sing…” Yada yada yada. 17. You know how to respond when someone says: “Peace be with you”. “And also with you!” you quip promptly. 18. Your gender notions are slightly warped and the first few years out in the real (read “co-ed”) world were difficult for you. 19. At some point in your life, you have dressed up as an angel, sheep, or shepherd. 20. You might complain about all the restrictions and conservatism, but you’re still best friends with everyone you went to school with, and they are your closest confidants. And sometimes, when you all get together, you talk about how much you miss your good old carol-singing, perpetual-
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:18:11 +0000
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