I have lived 50 years on this earth and my hair is streaked with grey.
My mom says that the grey is wisdom that you get as you travel along life’s way.
So feeling pretty wise, I thought I’d share
A little bit of wisdom through these 50 strands of grey.
My First Day As A Teacher
I looked across the sea of faces, My heart a mess of a million fears; Fifty pairs of eyes watched me, Some curiously, and some full of tears. All the names I had to remember; Make myself heard above their cries. How on earth, was I, I wondered, Supposed to make all of them…
Read moreOf Hobbies And Perseverance
What do you have to look forward to in life when you are 72? Not much, one would assume. But not Walter Salvadore Pereira. My brother-in-law, Walter Salvadore Pereira, has at the age of 72, published his first book, ‘This Nightmare Is For Real.’ Walter is my brother-in-law and I am, at the moment, terribly…
Read moreHow I became a teacher
I was all of fourteen. It was the 5th of September, 1979, Teacher’s Day. I was in the tenth standard and as usual the teachers had gone for a picnic, leaving us, the tenth standard students to run the school. I was in charge of the kindergarten. I had been told to ensure that all…
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