How to pronounce “up sticks” in English

was to teach at the Street Botnaverti Girls Higher Secondary School.But teachers were meagerly paid and resembled chewed up sticks of sugar cane, and I had no desire to become one. I confess, sometimes from our veranda, I spiedon other kinds of women, receptionists and typists who worked for Indian Oil or Guardbridge and waited across from our house for the company