Wisdom Park International School

Most mornings in Ambur start with a bit of a rush. Over here at No 30, Chengallikuppam, the gates for Wisdom Park International School open up early. It’s a local spot where people know each other. The building has been here for a bit, and you can see the wear on the walls from years of kids running past. We have some trees in the yard that drop leaves everywhere, so someone is always sweeping. Inside, the classrooms are pretty simple. We have wooden desks that have seen better days and windows that sometimes stick when it rains. The teachers usually walk in with their bags full of notebooks and stay until the sun starts to go down. During the lunch break, the whole place smells like whatever the kids brought from home. It gets pretty loud then. We don't have a big fancy office or anything like that. Just a small room with a desk and some chairs for when parents come by to talk. Most of the families live nearby, so you see the same faces every day at the gate. It's just a regular school day, nothing too special about it. We just make sure the rooms are clean and the fans are working before the first bell rings. Sometimes the power goes out, and we just open the doors wider to let the breeze in from the street. It’s a steady kind of life here and we just keep moving along with the seasons.