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My Experience Shifting to a New School Broken Dreams
I watch joyfully from the outskirts of my ghetto along with my tribal brothers
Have you ever felt content, nervous, joyful, and scared all at the same
and sisters. I gape as the protestors march on the dusty tarmac in a single body
time? Those were the exact emotions I felt on the night of 8th March shouting slogans of equality and fraternity. They wave at us their placards
2021; the night I got my acceptance letter. Change is something everyone bobbing to a rhythm screaming out “FREE SUDAN” in bold red. I murmur a
goes through at some point in their life, but not everyone can adapt to. I prayer for they are risking their lives for me. I notice not just the skullcap a
protestor dons, but also the tribal totem another carries. I watch as two
get uneasy even by the thought of it. I'd always thought that if I ever got
teenagers barely fifteen shout at the top of their voices from a loudspeaker. I feel
into DAIS, I would be ready to go without thinking twice. I had heard a
pride as I feel the entirety of Sudan has come to defy the draconian curfews and
great deal about the school's legacies and alumni. unconstitutional roadblocks levied by the military.
SAANVI AGRAWAL
But deciding to leave my old school wasn't as easy as I thought it would They have marched thousands of miles for the hope of a free Sudan and to uplift
be. I had been in my old school for nine years and making friends was not us tribals from the twin evils of racism and segregation. I hope that this
always my strong suit. I enjoyed the idea of starting afresh, but that meant movement will strengthen the spirits of my tribe whose spirits became a casualty
to the vigilantes, military, and the State. A ripple of panic passes through the Metamorphosis
I had to leave my comfort zone, all my friends that I dearly loved and all my
crowds as dozens of jeeps suddenly arrive from which jump out hundreds of
teachers, who I had spent years building close relations with. After “If you don't like something, change it. If you
men. Each one donning the uniform of the Sudanese National Milita. The
understanding how much I'd have to leave behind, there was a fleeting demonstrators glare at them standing their ground. Though I detect a note of can't change it, change your attitude.”
moment when I vacillated and was having serious second thoughts. Then, panic in their demeanour. Their shouts which echoed through the ghettos like Maya Angelou
finally, after months of waiting for it with mixed feelings, came the big the roars of lions have faltered. An uneasy silence haunts the surroundings. Nothing ever stays the same; water evaporates, ice
day: My first day in a new school, with new teachers and no friends. At this moment, a diminutive bald man unconcernedly from the back of the jeep melts and mindsets evolve. Over the past two years,
barks out an order and like machines the men obey. Like greased automations our lives have changed drastically. We encountered
I was as nervous as a cat in a dog pound; my head was filled with
they take aim and fire. The bullets do not miss and within seconds dozens fall a deadly virus and came up with vaccines for it,
SHERLOCK HOLMES - ARYAHI AGARWAL anticipation. However, to my amazement, it went brilliantly. The teachers went completely online and some of us spent hours
their lives extinguished. Prompting pandemonium as people attempt to flee
were cordial and old students or 'homegrowns' made us feel right at from the jaws of death. Nothing else can be heard except the rhythmic rat-tat of locked in a room listening to our favourite playlists
home. Making friends was tough, especially during online school, but machine guns and howls of the injured. Without any emotion the soldiers mow because we had nothing else to do.
DIWALI Ma fête préférée. then again, human beings are known to adapt to their surroundings well. down fellow Sudanese they swore to protect. I feel the horror rise giving way to I truly marvel at how far humanity has come
sheer terror. Then finally when their ammunition runs out, they calmly leave. since the start of the pandemic. From chaos,
Les lumières partout en Inde, le ciel est plein de Now I have a marvelous set of like- minded friends and great relations confusion and loss of life to order, prosperity
feux d'artifices, et tous les Indiens font la fête. with all my teachers. I think, despite my initial doubts, it is safe to say that The Ghetto has plunged into chaos with bereaved families wailing desperately and hope; we have overcome so many
Oui, c'est la fête de Diwali. C'est une fête de la my decision to move to a new school has truly been vindicated and I look to catch one last glance at their loved ones. Samaritans are rushing to provide impediments to get to where we are today.
religion hindoue que les Indiens célèbrent forward to spending the rest of my school life here. some aid to the wounded. Others are paralyzed by indecision facing millions of School going online was completely
partout dans le monde. uncertainties. “Should we leave this nation of ours our ancestral home since unprecedented and it was such a big change!
Tvisha Soni millennia?” “Ought we give away our land the land founded and sculpted by Yet we all adapted, and after a whole lot of
La fête est liée à la légende du Ramayana. Elle our forefathers?” Such questions they face. Questions which have no answers. I
signifie le retour de Rama à la ville d'Ayodhya. see many of them packing up their meagre possessions. Mumbling farewells patience, time, and reassurance, we are finally
Comme on n'utilise pas le calendrier gregorien, with faces red with shame for fleeing a nation that is theirs. They have tears in going back to seeing our friends, laughing and
cette fete a lieu en octobre ou novembre. Il n'y a their eyes as they leave this ghetto which has become a family. Dismal for they learning in person.
pas de dates fixes. have just won a victory to the military. I always used to be on tenterhooks about change,
until I went through one of the biggest changes in
On mange beaucoup de sucreries et des L'importance d'apprendre une langue I join them just a drop in this wave of refugees that will soon eclipse the entire my life so far which was moving to a new school. I
spécialités indiennes. Le jour de Diwali, il y a un Middle East and Africa. I have nothing to take with me, neither the books I once thought I was going to be thrown in a dungeon full
grand repas où toute la famille mange ensemble. étrangère adored nor the pen which now lies broken after the riots. Now it is just a painful of people who were out to get me, but it ended up
Pendant cette fete, on allume des lampes et des reminder of my tamed aspirations and broken dreams. Once upon a time I being nothing like that. At the end of the first day, I
feux d'artifice. Nous portons de nouveaux Bonjour! Je m'appelle Anaya Mehta. wanted to be an author. I wanted to craft verses to unite the nation and was elated and didn't understand why I was so
vêtements et on échange des cadeaux. J'adore Selon moi, aujourd'hui quand le monde devient un 'village global' compose songs honouring my Sudan. However now I start daring to dream. tense to begin with. This made me realise that
cette fête de Diwali. l'apprentissage une langue étrangère devient plus important. Maybe the outside world will be kinder and more considerate to this poor change can be ameliorative as well and that it is the
Sudanese who has braved the worse? only constant in the equation of life.
Ayaan Shah Tout d'abord, l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère nous aide à faire
contact avec beaucoup de gens autour du monde . En plus, Without a penny in my pocket, I am at the mercy of humans who do not have a Change always feels so unfamiliar when it comes
shred of humanity who have long since been reduced to mere calculators. Their but it is one of the things which we are most
l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère est comme la cerise sur le gâteau
actions depend not on morality but on profit. They trade in human misery in my cognisant of. It is a part of our everyday lives and a
pour les étudiants. S' ils vont faire leurs études supérieures dans un pays misery and revel during wars, famines, and coups. I am lucky to have travel crucial one too, for if each day would be the same
étranger, ça deviendra plus facile car Ils peuvent s'entendre bien avec
companions who knew such men before the riots. My companions were once as the next, and each person the same as another,
leurs camarades. C'est vrai n'est-ce pas? - Ensuite, cela aide à developper the richest men in the whole of Arabia. Before dangerous rhetoric inflamed the life would be mind-numbingly monotonous.
une attitude positive envers les gens et les cultures du monde entier . marketplaces, before fires of hatred destroyed their products and before people Change should be welcomed with open arms
Quand on voyage pour le travail ou pour les vacances, c'est très facile de let the colour of our skin blind their judgement. My companions secure me a because it either helps you metamorphose into a
communiquer avec des habitants de ces pays. free trip to Egypt. “Egypt?” I asked. They call it the jewel of Africa and declare I better version of yourself or gives a word to the wise.
will be safe there. I can just hope and pray.
Aussi, apprendre une langue étangère vous donne quelque chose à faire Riddimma Sampat
pendant votre temps libre. Alors, vous allez avoir un nouveau passe-temps I am smuggled into this jewel through the great Bir Tawil desert by men
disguised by the night due to their black garbs. I suppose they are famed
. Pour les adultes, apprendre une langue étrangère offre de nombreuses
opportunités d'emploi. Après avoir vu les avantages d'apprendre une traffickers but desperate, so I am with nothing to lose so onwards I go. The
borders are quite unguarded, still they dump me in the square of an unknown
langue étrangère , on peut conclure que cela nous rend plus capable et city. Is this to from now be my home?
nous aidera à améliorer les quatre compétences importantes qui sont la
compréhension orale, la compréhension écrite, la production orale et la I am homeless and without shelter and again I am plagued by millions of
uncertainties. Pangs of homesickness tear me apart and I regret my decision a
production écrite. J'ai commencé à apprendre le français il y a quatre ans thousand times. When I hear a speaker shout in an alien tongue spurring a
et cela m'aide beaucoup. Par exemple, quand je suis allée en France frenzy from the crowds. However, I recognize these scenes from the Sudan just
quand j'avais onze ans, j'ai pu communiquer avec les commerçants et les before the riots. Egypt is welcoming no more. It appears unlikely that I can
serveurs. Et alors, apprendre une langue étrangère est très amusant et survive. For these demonstrations indicates that the seeds of unrest and a
bénéfique et je le recommande à tous. refugee crisis are germinating in this Egypt.
Anaya Mehta Ishaan Surve
NIA AGARWAL EESHA GHEEWALA

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