KATHMANDU, April 24: Following the current fad of college confession pages, this week we’re reminiscing all the incidents that make our college life memorable – whether it’s that teacher who has a funny accent, a friend who did something stupid and made everyone in the class laugh, including the ever so uptight teacher, or the time when the entire class got punished, and instead of being drowned in guilt, you were happy to stand outside the principal’s office because anything else is interesting than listening to your Math teacher talk about Derivative of a Function.[break]
Every student has experienced or witnessed their share of bloopers, faux pas and moments that are too amusing not to be shared over and over again. Here are some of those:
I was doing my Plus 2 at Bridgewater International College and this one day I was playing flying saucer with some of the other guys from my class when the saucer ‘flew’ outside the school compound. I climbed the wall, got the saucer and threw it to my friends. I fell flat on the ground while trying to jump off the wall and one of the glasses of my spectacles was lost then. We decided to do a demo to figure out where the glass must have gone. The second time, I jumped off the same wall, I ended up stepping on it and the glass broke. It wasn’t funny then, but in hindsight I find this incident very amusing.
Pradeep Ghimire, 20, Ratna Rajya Campu
This guy in my class danced to ‘Kajra Re’ the day before Valentine’s Day this year. He proposed to a girl and the girl declined with ‘hya, timi jau.’ He then replied, ‘ka timi jane kura garira, ma timro lagi bhanera bhagi bhagi ako.’ The whole incident seemed like a rip-off of an episode of a sitcom.
Purnima Giri, 19, Reliance Inter
Last semester, my college took us to Chitwan for a tour and I went out for a jungle walk with some of my friends. We followed a trail of rhino poop and encountered a mother rhino with her baby. We took a few pictures and changed our directions because we thought it wasn’t safe. Some of my other friends were still clicking pictures when the rhino charged towards us. We ran for our lives.
I did my I Sc from St Xavier’s College and this one time we had to prepare ammonia. My group was the first one to complete the assignment. We had been instructed to close our eyes and smell ammonia but ‘I smelled it like I was smelling a flower,’ as my teacher put it. I got a bad headache after that. It was like a spasm and I jumped around. Everybody thought I was excited for having completed the assignment first. To this day, I am known as ‘the girl who smelled ammonia like she was smelling a flower.’
Subima Shrestha, 20, Kathmandu University
During one of our English classes, my teacher asked a guy to read out a passage from the book. There was a sentence, ‘She lost her bikini top’ and the guy said, ‘I lost my bikini top’ because he was nervous. He is still ragged by the entire class and even the teacher subtly makes fun of him sometimes.
Coming up with funny names for teachers is also fun.
Chandani Giri, 18, Bagmati Modern College
There are so many of those moments, from watching my friend slip on snow while taking pictures during our college tour to Darjeeling to sitting through a heated argument between a teacher and one of the girls in my class when the teacher left in fury, they’re all fun in one way or the other. The last one to finish lunch in the college canteen is the one who is forced to pay for everybody’s order. That, I think, beats everything else. You should see how fast the guys gobble down food!
Deepen Ghale, 20, Brooklyn Colleg
We have this teacher who is known for his innuendos – ‘First girls, then boys – and the last one to leave is…well, you know.’ This one time, some of my classmates went for hookah and one of my friend’s uncle happened to be at the same place. He complained to the college management and the teachers assembled some 16 students from the venue, brought them to the college and they were suspended. Although how things turned out wasn’t funny, the way some of my friends who were there, enacted the whole show for us was hilarious.
On the first day of the college, nobody spoke to each other and by the end of the two years the entire class would hang out together. Along the way, we had some really funny incidents.
Shikha Pradhan, 18, Trinity International College
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