Ryan International School

We've been here at Plot No-294 for a while now. Shahjahanpur isn't a huge place, so most people know where we are. It’s just a regular school building where kids show up every morning with their heavy bags. Some come by bus and others get dropped off at the main gate by their parents on motorbikes. You can usually hear the morning assembly starting from down the street. We have desks that have seen better days and hallways that get pretty loud between periods. Teachers are mostly busy grading papers or trying to keep the noise down in the corridors. It’s not fancy, just a place for learning. The sun hits the playground around noon, and that’s when it gets really lively. We deal with the usual stuff like power cuts or leaky taps sometimes, but we just get on with it. The office is usually stacked with files and old registers. It’s a busy environment. We see the same faces every day, from the rickshaw drivers waiting outside to the kids running to catch the bell. It feels like a small community inside these walls. There’s always someone losing a pencil or forgetting a notebook. We just try to keep things moving. It's a school, after all, so there is a lot of energy even on the hot days when everyone just wants to go home. We are just doing our bit here in the 242001 area. We try to keep the fans running when the heat is bad and the kids are getting restless.