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Saboor’s skating classes

Saboor’s skating classes have been fantastic. For him and for me. He found a group of friends and he’s learnt skating, and he seems to be having fun too. He also seems to have lost some weight which he had put on recently due to too much junk food and watching TV.

Meanwhile I too have found a couple of friends and its surprising to even think that I didnt even know they existed three months ago. Nazima, in her early thirties is a harried mother of two sons, Safwan(5) and Hisham(2), and I really admire how she carries on everything, considering that both her son are so naughty! She is a Unani doctor and was practicing before she became a mother. Now, she doesn’t have time for anything else, but she brings her son to skating classes without fail.

Akhtar is a slightly older woman, although I really can’t figure out her age(I haven’t asked her yet!). She has two kids, but I haven’t seen her daughter as yet. She’s never come to the skating classes as she’s in tenth standard and has to study for the ongoing board exams. Anyway, her son, Yahya skates pretty well, and he’s not even six!

Well, as much as Saboor will miss his skating classes when we leave BTM and move to Koramangala, I will miss my new friends too! I might enroll Saboor in a skating class in Koramangala but it will not be the same for him and for me.