United School

Up on the first floor of Elite Plaza on Sevoke Road, things get a bit cramped sometimes but we make it work. Siliguri is always moving fast and you can feel that energy right outside our windows. The traffic on Sevoke Road never really stops, does it? We have our classrooms lined up along the hallway. Some of them get a lot of light from the street side. We spend a lot of our time just keeping things organized. It is not always easy with so many students coming in and out every day. We have the usual stuff like blackboards, rows of chairs, and piles of notebooks that seem to never get smaller. The teachers have their own little corner where they eat lunch and talk about their classes. You can usually hear a bit of a hum from the air conditioners when they are running. It is a plain place, really. We did not put a lot of money into making it look like a palace because that is not what we are here for. We are just here to teach. Sometimes the lift in the building acts up and everyone has to take the stairs, which is not great if you are carrying a lot of books. But people are used to it. We see the same faces every morning and it feels like a small community even though we are right in the middle of a busy commercial plaza.