I still remember the first day I saw her ….the serenity of her smiling face and that glow in her eyes…. I felt such a deep respect and affection for her …
I touched her feet and took her blessings and it was such a heavenly feeling…This was three years ago when I was a really demure figure who spoke only when absolutely necessary….I was so full of awe for her….I knew she would be a fabulous teacher…yea she was my favourite teacher Mrs.Kulkarni….the one whose words I took to be law…and these words gave me the killer instinct to work harder and excel in mathematics…my relationship with this subject has been on rocks right from when I was a kid…I just hated math like anything…and had this terrible phobia from math which I could recover only because of this teacher…But more than her prowess in the subject, I liked her because she was a great motivator…and actually very stringent about margins in the copy, lines after every problem, figures with pencil and neat handwriting and thank god I was good at all of them except for solving the problems…hehe..!! and I don’t know why but even if my marks went down she was never annoyed with me…she always liked me... she always shared things with me which she did not do with any other student …Moreover some were too scared to talk to her about anything other than the subject related queries…she taught me for three years and frankly I liked her more than my school math teachers…
But in twelfth standard I could see that she was compromising on her rules... She didn’t care if people were using pens to draw the figures…and even I was going through a severe emotional crisis…and that also in the most crucial year of life…(I have described about it in so many posts) …So my studies suffered badly, and I became terrible in math again…(sad story aint it ?? I know...)
But the only thing which drove me to write this post is the telephone conversation
I touched her feet and took her blessings and it was such a heavenly feeling…This was three years ago when I was a really demure figure who spoke only when absolutely necessary….I was so full of awe for her….I knew she would be a fabulous teacher…yea she was my favourite teacher Mrs.Kulkarni….the one whose words I took to be law…and these words gave me the killer instinct to work harder and excel in mathematics…my relationship with this subject has been on rocks right from when I was a kid…I just hated math like anything…and had this terrible phobia from math which I could recover only because of this teacher…But more than her prowess in the subject, I liked her because she was a great motivator…and actually very stringent about margins in the copy, lines after every problem, figures with pencil and neat handwriting and thank god I was good at all of them except for solving the problems…hehe..!! and I don’t know why but even if my marks went down she was never annoyed with me…she always liked me... she always shared things with me which she did not do with any other student …Moreover some were too scared to talk to her about anything other than the subject related queries…she taught me for three years and frankly I liked her more than my school math teachers…
But in twelfth standard I could see that she was compromising on her rules... She didn’t care if people were using pens to draw the figures…and even I was going through a severe emotional crisis…and that also in the most crucial year of life…(I have described about it in so many posts) …So my studies suffered badly, and I became terrible in math again…(sad story aint it ?? I know...)
But the only thing which drove me to write this post is the telephone conversation
which I had with Ma’am two or three days ago..one thing she said just moved me…she said
“ Though you are my student , I always considered you as my friend”…what else can a student wish to hear from her favourite teacher….
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who is this kulkrani lady?... i bet she would hate me... pathetic hand ritin... sad margins... no classwork... the onli thin i knw is to like solve a FEW problems... emhpasis on FEW...
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