OBSESSION.......my students are obsessed with Lewis Carroll all of a sudden. They are reading 'Alice Adventures In Wonderland'...OVER & OVER & OVER AGAIN !!! I admit, its entirely my fault, I think I made the literature poem of 'You Are Old Father William' so damn interesting that now they all want to write their own version of the Alice story. One has already started.....he is a 3rd grader.....his version is titled 'Alice's Adventures In South India Along With Rajnikanth'. Now.......I informed him as a dutiful teacher that it is not possible.....no title can exceed more than six words, so he will have to change his title.
There is a 7th grader also at it, but in a different way......he is FILMING his version where I am Alice & Mumbai is wonderland as well as the Motherland! My mother finds all this rather silly while Younger Uncle is all game & wants to play the role of the Mad Hatter. He has even invited the kids to watch the Disney movie on our T.V this Saturday.....with popcorn & ice cream......(I am going to die....that day is my salad eating day.
Younger Aunt is waiting to play the role of the mad cook who is obsessed with pepper & sprays it on everything & everyone in sight while we have all decided to keep mother as the Queen Of Hearts........who goes on saying : OFF WITH THEIR HEADS.....but this time, mother will be shouting : OFF WITH YOUR MARKS IN LITERATURE !!! Younger Uncle has warned me next time not to teach so well that my students go overboard.
Right now, Younger Aunt is preparing a weird sort of tea that is making all of us in the house sneeze & cough. We asked her what it is & she said it is Masala Tea. We then asked her why was she making it........she said...well that's another story.
S.O.S. Animals And Other Stories