- She was my class teacher in ninth grade
- She is a beautiful woman with happy soul.
- She had a beautiful smile like Mona Lisa’s. It’s so hard to interpret her mood because she gave that Mona Lisa smile even when we behaved badly.
- She taught History.
- She introduced me to Anil Kapoor
- She covered her History book with Anil Kapoor’s posters (I guess from magazine or news paper). She is Anil Kapoor’s fan so I became his fan too.
- She was a welcome change in our school dominated by unfriendly nuns (mostly Tamil nuns from rural background who tortured happy carefree kids imposing "nun" like rules). I always felt she never belonged there.
- She asked us to learn typing and short hand so it will come handy during our college years. I followed her advice faithfully and passed my typing lower grade mid of 11th grade year. I attempted my typing higher grade exam after 4 months but failed. I didn’t practice well due to my half-yearly exams. I was the only one 15-year-old kid, taking the higher grade typing exam in that huge exam hall .I was the youngest student in my institute and hence my teacher’s pet. I also took short hand –lower grade lessons but discontinued it, when I came to 12th grade due to tight academic schedule. I had decent knowledge of short hand to take notes .Now I don't remember anything .
- She was very entertaining. I never saw her as a nun but as domesticated women who loved children. She was happy around kids and eager to mentor us in her own undemanding ways. She really influenced my mothering style.
- I watched " Fraggle Rock" for the first time during my ninth grade. She made us watch “Fraggle Rock” once a week during her class hour. That was my first introduction to 3-D animated cartoons . I used to create 3-D model of comic book character(s) out of china clay (aka modeling clay) complete with cardboard castles/building during summer time. Fraggle Rock based projects dominated the summer that year.
- During my college years I forced myself to believe that Sister Edel became a nun because of a broken love affair : ). She was a vibrant woman who gave up everything in life for the sake of God.
- She died at a younger age (during 1990’s) due health complications arising after a van accident driven by a careless and stupid driver . Even during my schooling years he used to scare the hell out us bye driving the van at high-speed inside our school campus.
I tried to remember Sister Edel Mary as often as I can , but today I remembered her specially ,when I sang my son’s favorite Anil Kapoor’s dance number “Tak dina din tak dina din .., bom bom bom Bombay mere hai” .
She was my ideal teacher and no wonder I always wanted to become a pre-KG teacher. I still do.
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