Shri Saraswati Madhyamik Shala

Shri Saraswati Madhyamik Shala sits out in Goarkhi Gam Tal Tadaja, which is part of the Bhavnagar district. The pin code is 364001 if you are looking for us on a map. Life here moves at a different pace than the big cities. Most of our days start when the sun is just coming up over the fields nearby. You can hear the goats and birds before the students arrive. The school building is simple and has been around for a while. It gets a fresh coat of paint when we can manage it, but mostly it looks like any other local building in the village. We have desks that have seen many years of use, with names scratched into the wood here and there. The playground is mostly just open ground where kids run around and kick things. When the wind blows, a bit of dust comes into the classrooms, so we have to wipe the tables often. Our teachers come from nearby areas, often arriving on scooters or cycles. We don't have fancy air conditioning or big screens. There are just blackboards, chalk, and books. Sometimes the power goes out, and we just open the windows wider to let the breeze in. It is a quiet existence mostly, except for when the kids are at play. Shri Saraswati Madhyamik Shala is just a part of the daily life in this corner of Bhavnagar.