Ramakrishna Mission School

Our school is on Ramakrishna Mission Road in Gandhi Nagar. It’s a well-known spot in Vijayawada. The building has been here for quite some time now and you can see that in the architecture. We have a lot of students coming in from all over the city every morning. It gets quite humid here, especially in the afternoons, so we all feel a bit tired by the end of the day. We have a routine that we follow every single day without fail. It starts with an assembly and then everyone heads to their assigned rooms. The teachers are mostly local people who have been with us for years. We don’t really do flashy things or put up big posters. We just have our classrooms and the textbooks. You can hear the traffic from the main road sometimes when the windows are open. It’s a busy part of town. We try to keep the atmosphere inside calm, but with hundreds of kids, that’s not always easy. We spend a lot of time on basic stuff like handwriting, math, and sitting still. The hallways are lined with old notices and student work. It feels like a place that has seen a lot of history. We don't have a big mission statement on the wall; we just teach the lessons that are scheduled. People in Vijayawada know where we are. We just keep doing the same work we’ve been doing for years. It’s a steady life.