Few days ago my niece who is in class two, was showing me her school work. As I was going through her notebook I found following text on the first page. I started reading it and as I reached the bottom half of the page, it floored me with laughter. For our English readership: The first four lines of the text talk about the religion and the God but from 5th line onwards the text goes like this.
I like my Islamiat miss (lady teacher) very much because she has very soft cheeks and she teaches very well. She also make us understand the suject very well. Thank you my lovely lovely Miss Sanobar.
Miss Sanobar’s remarks can be read in red in the right hand column.
Will take this opportunity to send all my teachers soft cheeked or otherwise, a big virtual smooch.
Please don’t remind us of our Misses of IMS (Islamabad Model School for boys, near covered market) and now ICB, in 1970s–liberal times of Zulfiqar ali bhutto.
Ah.. those days of infatuation and soft cheeks of our she teachers….
Reminds me of Obaidullah Aleem’s fine short poem:
Kaash hum bachaa hi rehtey
aur kabhi na tootney waaley khiloanoa’n
se kheltey rehtey
I also remember an essay written by my nephew at a similar age about a cat which ended with something like ‘a cat is very soft and it has a fluffy on its tail!’ That too floored me.
hai Allah. Magic….. now it is showing up. sorry
I’d like to know why my comment is not showing up? It was just as masoom as your niece.