Anushka and Chick – Part 2

Anushka and Chick – Part 2

“Anushka, is this your school?” Chick asked. “Can you show it to us?”

“Okay chick! Let’s go to see the school.”

So Rosy, Urja, Shaurya, Ching, Akshay, all followed Anushka with other chicks to see the school.   

To see the school

First they went to Kindergarten. There were many small children and plenty of toys. Some children were playing with toys. Girls were playing with dolls and boys were playing with cars. But two boys were jumping from the table and one boy was swimming on the ground. One girl was sitting below the table. She said, it was her home and she was sitting there because it was raining outside. One girl was reading a book.

“Can she read?” chick asked.

“No. she is just looking at the pictures.” Anushka said.

Then they saw one boy crying. “Mommy, where is my mommy? I want to go to her.”

“See, there are so many toys here” the teacher was saying. “you can play with them. Why do you want to go to home?”

“I want my Mommy. I don’t like this school.”

“O’Oh! Look at this chick. It has also come to the school for the first time. In fact it has just come to this world also. But it is not crying.”   

Look at this chick

The boy couldn’t understand anything but he stopped crying and started looking at the chick.

The chick said, “hi, how are you?” and the boy smiled.

Then they went further and there was a boy who was sleeping under the bench.

Chick liked that class very much. Then they went to first grade. It was story time and teacher was telling a story. The chick wanted to hear the story, but there was no time. In the second grade the students were singing a poem and in the third grade the students were reciting the tables. They just peeped in the fourth grade class. But there was an exam going on.

So they went further to the drawing hall. Students were painting a picture of some flowers. But they were so excited to see all the chicks that everyone wanted to draw them.

Then they went to the library. There were many picture and story books. The chick was very excited to see those colorful books. He wanted to read them all. ---

“Wow! So many books but I cannot read. I am still a baby.” Chick said.

“No problem.” Anushka said. “You can see the picture books now. And I can read. I will read them loudly for you. Then, when you are grown up, you can read them. You can even write a book yourself.”

Chick in Pocket

Then they all went to Anushka’s class. Anushka saw that the chick was trembling with cold. She kept the chick in her warm coat pocket. On the first day in the world, the chick has seen a lot. He was so tired that immediately it fell asleep.          

When it was time to go home, Anushka went to her teacher and asked, “may I take the chick home? I want to show it to my sister Saya. she hasn’t seen a chick till now and she will be very excited.”

“But, just as you are going to your home, the chick also wants to go home, to it’s mom. Just now it is sleeping but when it will wake up, it will be very hungry.

May I take the chick home?

“But how can I show it to Saya.”

“You ask your daddy to take you all to the farm. You can go to the farm on weekend and spend all day there.” Teacher said.

“You are always welcome to our farm.” Uncle John said. 

Anushka was very happy. She clapped her hands and said, “Wow that’s a great idea.”

By that time the chick was awake. She handed it to Uncle John and said, “Bye bye chick. I will soon visit your farm with my little sister Saya.” 

Okay. I will be waiting. I will show you my friends. We all will play and will have fun.”

Then the chick went to it’s home with Uncle John and Anushka went to her home with her mom. She was very happy. All the way to her home, She was telling her experience very excitedly to her mom.   

Bye bye chick

- - -  Sulu Aaji

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