When Rains Come, it Come in Battalions

So many graves things are happening in our school these days. First of all, our school vice principal’s wife has been hospitalized for several months. The subject he was given in the school to teach was in shamble. For more than a month, the classes V A, B and C science have been bolted in the bags; students thirst for a teacher to teach this study of scientific knowledge. When there was no hope of his return, and when the exam came knocking, our science department took an initiative to teach those classes. You know but our science teachers in Bhutan are loaded; loaded not with money but loaded with periods, they somehow agreed to adjust and spare their already compressed time. When I asked my class V students now, I heard that one period is enough to cover a chapter. This is how sciences are taught when everyone shares teaching; because it’s like nobody’s cake. They try to munch all at once.

Secondly, the school had to remain for a month without our principal, and which too saddened every one of us. The principal’s sister has a severe kind of trauma and further, she had a birthing complications, which kept both of them in Thimphu hospital ICU for many weeks. Life is difficult, I heard him saying.

Thirdly, two of our students were now behind the bar. Their sentences were up to three years. I feel pity about these two students from class IX and X who are locked up in the dark, who will miss their education, and their lives are blackened now. What, if it happened to a rich or noble group of people?  It won’t be news to be shared. These two boys committed a fourth-degree felony, it could have had settle before it got everything punched. That’s the cruelties of law enforcers sometimes; they don’t study behind the offense and nature of the crime as they should. These two boys were said to have entered inside a shop in Rinchentse and burgled some food items and some money. I heard that they didn’t even break a door or anything; they simply went inside the already unlocked door to survive one of the boys. I heard that one of the boys was staying himself in the rent and he had some difficulties getting enough ration to eat. It’s a pitiful story to be told to anyone.  That boy was the one to take that class x boy with him to that shop. See, bad minds infect and change other’s minds. I heard that they have taken the worth of nu. 8000/- or something.  The question now is that will they think good about life once they are released from the dungeon?

Fourthly, Bhutan football team was hammered by the Hong Kong team. What a disgrace? Bhutan must now focus on some very necessary developments like road, drinking water, poverty, not just some routing playing. Don't do what we can't do. Do what we can do!

Anyway, I pray that this mid-term exam gets over before another misfortune strike here. There is a plan that our school is going to conduct a small ritual to drive these evils from here. The last review meeting was a fruitful one as everyone agreed to contribute nu. 1000/- for some months to lay the foundation of our school’s chorten. That meeting also decided that there is a need for ‘Threma’ rimdro in the school, to which the house unanimously agreed. Our national assembly will continue in the next session!