Nivedita Senior Secondary School

Our school is right there on Dabwali Road in Ellenabad. If you’re driving past, you can’t miss the gates. It’s a flat area, so the wind blows a lot of dust onto the porch. We spend a good amount of time sweeping that away every morning. We have students from Sirsa and the nearby patches of Haryana. The morning starts early here, usually before the sun gets too high in the sky. Teachers walk in with their bags and lunch boxes, greeting each other by the main entrance. Some of us have been here since the school opened, and we’ve seen the trees in the courtyard grow quite tall. They provide some decent shade for the kids during the lunch hour. The classrooms have big windows, which is good for the breeze, though sometimes birds fly in and we have to usher them out. We have a small library where the books are a bit worn out from use over the years. It isn’t a quiet place, especially when the bell rings for a period change and everyone moves at once through the hallways. The floor tiles are a bit cracked in the hallway near the stairs, but we plan to fix that when we have some extra time. It’s just a regular local school where things happen predictably. We have parent meetings every now and then, and everyone sits on the wooden chairs in the main hall. It’s a simple setup for the town.