St Joseph'S Convent High School

The school sits on Burr Road in Khadki, which is a fairly quiet part of Pune compared to the main city center. If you walk past 9 Burr Road, you’ll see the old stone walls and the big gates that have been there for a long time. I usually get here before the first bell rings to make sure everything is unlocked. There is a specific smell of old books and floor cleaner that hits you when you walk down the hallways. We have high ceilings and those heavy wooden doors that sometimes creak when the wind blows through the corridor. The playground is a decent size, and there’s always a stray football or a lost sweater lying around somewhere. Teachers here spend a lot of time sitting at their desks marking homework or talking about the upcoming holidays. It’s a busy place, especially when parents are dropping off their kids in the morning and the traffic gets a bit jammed up on the road outside. We don’t have anything very modern or flashy, but the building is solid and does its job. During the monsoon, the trees around the compound get very green and drop leaves everywhere. We have to sweep the courtyard twice a day then. It’s just a normal routine we’ve followed for years. Most of us have been here a long time, so we know which cupboards are broken and where the extra chalk is kept.