Holiday mood

The much deserved days have begun for me,since the beginning of the academic year, life has been a grinding mill kind of a story, i mean i was kind of grain and i was being ground. Only those who have actually worked in a boarding school where there is but little time for oneself understands what I'm actually talking about, the rest might just scoff and say,"What the heck? Life of a teacher is the most easiest." But little do they realise that each day of a teacher's life is filled with the schools activities; sometimes planning for it, sometimes discussing it with someone, sometimes thinking of the aftermath, sometimes thinking of the achievement but whatever it is thoughts are of school and its activities only. The people in the other offices can leave their task for some other day if not in mood but a teacher has to teach what one has planned for the day on that day itself. Even if one falls seriously ill, no other teachers will finish the others job, what is one's share has to be done by oneself, there is no bothering others about ones job. Well, i don't mind the preparing of my lessons( I hardly do that infact), i don't mind going to the class and facing 1000s of students, i don't mind standing the whole day so long as I can see the faces of all my students and I can see the satisfied smile on their faces( although my varicose veins filled legs do not agree with me); but what I don't like is the staying back after the school hours to watch football matches. Even as a student I was never interested in watching all kinds of matches and now that I am an adult with lots of responsibilities at home I despise these matches which keeps me in the school even more than before. I hate the study duties, where we've to wander around hitting on sleepy heads reminding the students to study,almost cajoling them into studying as if they are doing the teachers a favour by studying; I hate the meals inspection( it reminds me of my days in school where i had to go through the ordeal of the similar kind of food for meals); but hate it or love it,we must do it all.
But with the National day celebration the tough ordeal is over. I view National day with my eyes filled with tears of patriotism mingled with the sense of freedom from the next day onwards. It reminds all the teachers of the end of yet another turmoil filled year.