i wish to be a spiral galaxy
specifically, this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOWTn-0ObIA
this one being the one at 6:58, on the right. but you have to watch closely, cause it’s only there for a few seconds. oui.
normally in hindi recitation, my ta will have us all recite vocabulary or groups of words after her, and then will have various people recite them from memory and the rest of us echo. so yesterday, we were reciting ordinals, and our ta called on saachi as one of the first to recite from memory.
and saachi stuttered for a second, then looked at me, and muttered, ‘help me!’
she looked so terrified that i muttered them under my breath to help her.
i would whisper, ‘pehla,’ and she would say ‘pehla.’
‘dusra…’
‘dusra.’
‘teesra…’
‘teesra.’
all the way to dasva.
the whole time those of us in the front row were laughing silently because nilakshiji was serenely moving papers around behind her desk, completely unaware.
except, when saachi finished, she said, ‘buhat accha, saachi. abby, you next, i heard you can already do them.’ so she was not so completely unaware as we thought. but she was smiling. which made the whole class start laughing so hard. it seemed like a moment out of…something, i don’t know, maybe a really bad book or film or something.
