Cosplay at school

Windowsills in school hallways are a sacred space. They're never empty during recess. On the wide plastic or wooden windowsills (often filled with pots of geraniums or spiderworts), students: Copy homework five minutes before the bell. Scroll through their phones. Sit with their legs dangling and discuss the latest gossip.

This is usually a spacious and bright room. Its central space is occupied by a huge common table, or several tables pushed together, surrounded by chairs or armchairs. Along the walls stretch endless cabinets and shelves filled with teaching materials, curriculum plans, homeroom teacher folders, and boxes of extra chalk or markers. On the walls hang a clock, a calendar, and a large whiteboard with the lesson schedule, substitutions, and announcements from the head teachers. Key Attributes: Journals and Notebooks: Stacks of notebooks in green covers, tied with rubber bands or stacked in piles, always tower on the tables. Class registers (if the school still uses paper copies of electronic ones) stand in a corner or in a special cabinet. Technology: In the teachers' lounge, a computer and printer (or multifunction printer) constantly hum—test forms, assessment materials, reports, and orders are constantly being printed here.

The most mysterious and legendary places where students are strictly forbidden to enter. The basement is associated with heating pipes, dim light, and a place to store old, broken desks. The attic is associated with pigeons and centuries-old dust. Scary or fantastical stories often circulate among elementary schoolchildren about these places.

An area of ​​absolute cleanliness and the distinctive smell of antiseptics, alcohol, and medication. The medical office is usually divided into two parts: a reception area, where the school nurse sits, and a treatment room. Inside, there's always a white couch, a height chart with scales, an eye chart with the familiar letters "Ш Б," and cabinets filled with syringes, bandages, and ampoules. People come here for a lifesaving exemption from physical education, with scraped knees during recess, or during routine vaccinations, when a silent line forms in the hallway.

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The cafeteria is one of the most popular spaces. It's a spacious room with long rows of tables and chairs. It always smells of freshly baked goods, soup, and sweet tea, and during lunch breaks, the deafening clink of cutlery can be heard. The gym is a huge room with high ceilings, wall bars, basketball hoops, and floor markings. The air is filled with the smell of rubber from the balls and mats. Adjacent to the gym are the locker rooms and the coaches' room. The assembly hall is a venue for celebrations, with a stage, heavy curtains, and rows of seats for spectators. It smells like backstage and is often used for rehearsals for school performances. The library is an oasis of silence, with shelves filled with old and new books, textbooks, and a reading room filled with the scent of printing ink and paper.

Chemistry and physics classrooms are equipped with sinks on the desks and lab rooms with cabinets full of reagents and equipment. Computers line the walls of the computer rooms. Workshops and technology rooms are equipped with sewing machines, stoves, and woodworking machines.

The heart of the school is the classroom. A traditional classroom is set up in a standard way: three rows of two-person desks, a teacher's desk by the window, and a large chalkboard (or marker board) on the wall, often topped with a clock. Portraits of writers, scientists, or thematic posters (like the periodic table or world maps) hang on the walls. Specialized classrooms have their own unique features.

The teachers' lounge, principal's office, and the vice principal's office usually have a more formal, businesslike atmosphere. During breaks, the teachers' lounge is a hive of activity: notebooks are checked, journals are filled out, and curriculum plans are discussed.

They serve as the building's main arteries. During classes, they are utterly silent, broken only by the muffled voices of teachers behind closed doors. During recess, the hallways become a buzzing hive: younger students run around, older students stand in groups, and teachers on duty maintain order. Recreation areas are extensions of the hallways, often furnished with sofas, ottomans, houseplants, or ping-pong tables, allowing children to rest.

A tour of the school begins in the vestibule. Turnstiles, a security post, and information boards are located here. Nearby is the cloakroom—rows of hangers or wire cages separated by classrooms, where in the morning the noise of hundreds of students swapping their street shoes for their "slip-on" shoes fills the air. The distinct smell of damp clothes permeates the air at this time (especially on rainy or snowy days).