It is not a brand name for an all girls rock band. Akank and four of her classmates belong to this group called the Aqua Girls. The mission of the group is to hang out together at school. That is what Akank tells me when I ask her about the group.” We thought of different names. Everything from Glam Rockers to Polygamy. ( I remember she clarified the meaning of the word and discarded it ). I probed her into giving me more information about the group. She reluctantly opened up.
“We also have a motto” Ah. Now we were getting somewhere. ” It is not like a motto.. It’s just something.”
I wasn’t going to give up now. I asked her to spill the beans.
” Aqua Girls – It’s the start of something Blue” she said. See, we all like the colour blue. That is why we called ourselves Aqua.”
I asked her who inspired them to form a group.
” There is a TV program from where we got the idea. ‘Recess’ has a group of girls who call themselves ‘The Ashley girls’. But they do girlie things”
We got talking about her group this afternoon when she got back from school. She said someone else wanted to be a part of the group and she did not know how to say no without sounding rude. She wanted my counsel. I helpfully suggested that she could deny her saying that the group intentionally is kept small and that there was no room for more people. She seemed to like the idea and said she will try it as an excuse tomorrow.
The additional details I gathered about the group was that they had acronyms for each other. When I asked Akank what else the group did together she said they also hung out on the phone after school.
“Sometimes we also haunt the corridors at school.”
Doesn’t qualify as a ‘girlie thing to do’ to me:-)
Tweenspeak! 