Patel Classes

Patel Classes is located over here in Vadodara 21. It’s a place where we spend most of our days, usually from early morning until the sun goes down. The building is pretty easy to find once you get into this part of the city. We have a few rooms set up with desks and chairs that have seen a lot of use over the years. You can hear the traffic from the main road if the windows are open, but we usually keep the fans running high so it’s not too bad. The floor is made of that old grey stone that stays cool even when it’s hot outside. Sometimes the lights flicker a bit when the power gets weird, but we just get on with things. There is a small tea stall just a few doors down where everyone goes during the breaks. We don’t have any fancy signs or anything, just the name on the door so people know they’re in the right spot. It’s mostly just quiet work happening inside most of the time. We see the same faces every day, students coming in with their bags and leaving once the sessions are done. The walls are mostly bare except for a few schedules pinned up with tape. It isn’t much to look at from the street, but it works for what we do here in Vadodara 21. We like the neighborhood because everything is close by. There is a lot of energy around here.