After a Long Period of Time...
Recently, when I was talking to someone I did my M A with at Department of English, Calicut University Campus, all these came up to my mind. I was transported back to my university days. It was on a lazy after noon, I was talking to one of my classmates. Now I am not quite sure what she was talking about. I only knew it was something a teacher had mentioned during the previous hour. I had skipped that particular session, though I wasn't in the habit of missing classes. I told her very casually: "Oh, I missed that period." "You missed WHAT? You missed a PERIOD?" she echoed dubiously, looking rather amused but not pursuing the matter. Nor did I care, as naivety was my second name back then. Maybe, even now at times for sure. One of the in-house English words I knew from the school I went to was "period". We would say "first period", "second period", "during the PT period" etc. To me it simply meant a class session