that morning, we were asked to wear shoes and come for the choti hazari... we went to this lawn area where there was bon fire the previous night... as i said the instructors over there were in love with shapes, we were asked to make a circle... we did some warm up excersices... that morning i found that i'm badly struck with cold and cough... anyway, after that we had these relay games, todoos vs. the rafters! it as like a player from each team had to run to a point 50metres away, inflate a balloon and then burst it with hus/her ass. once done, run back to your team and tag the next person... the second game was also relay where you had to pair up with a person from your team only, inflate a balloon, the pair had to balance the balloon between their back and reach the point same as before and then run back to your team and tag the next pair... hahaha! both the times the todoos won, you see, we are good at todo-fying stones and balloons... (lame joke ;) )
further we changed into our shorts and tees and today was the second day for Rafting... we reached the Aquaterra site pretty early so our guides made us play few games... they were fun... for rafting this time the guide didnt do the paddling, everything was dependent on us! and this time i sat on the front area, last time i was in the middle... as usual we stopped at a place took take a dip into the river, rather we stopped twice to swim in the water... plus this time the speed of water was faster and also the level of water had also increased for it was hotter and hence much of the glacier must have melted...
back at the camp, we had squash, which i truly loved... we changed into our dry clothes... at dinner area where we usually sat, was the main place to mix up with people... thanks to diya and shardooli we got introduced to many other girls.. there was mithali, saniya, yaashna,diksha, upasana, avarna, etc... diya was amongst the prettiest girls over there...she was my height, she was thin, probably zero size had these beautiful smile and eyes... the perfect way to describe is ''doll'',she's from Chicago, US and else laughed silently, lol... shardoli her BFF is a lil healthy she also has an accent like diya, however she's lived in mexico, brussles and belgium.. both from sanskriti school, they were the only ones from class11... apart all these girls were like sooo tall and almost all of them zero size, fair and beautiful and even though they were like younger to me, they looked sooo mature, as though they were in 12 or even older!
that afternoon after having bit of conversations here and there and having lunch, naveen sir shouted''tadooos, guys, come here''.... we were confronted with a challenge for which we were given a map... there were 'X' marked at 3 places which meant that we had to ask the instructor for an activity assigned for that particular destination. kartikey, took charge for the map. he is such an ass, he would boss us around and i never even got to have one look at the map!! whenever i udes to ask him for it, he would so nicely ignore me.. as though i was speaking to a rock!! anyway as we started on the expedetion, we first came across a water point, which was a handpump.. there we all drank water... after covering like 100 metres from there, it was time for our first activity...
naveen sir paired us up with people whom we didnt know at all... harshi was paired up with ashray and i was with shardooli, even though i knew her, since she was my tent mate... eventually, what was the activity?.. one from each pair was blind folded, the one who could see had to lead the other one without touching the blind one... so shardooli was blind folded... the way was pretty tricky, full of rocks, mud puddles, too steep and turns as well... so i would have to instruct shardooli to take 5 steps here and there, jump to your right, left or forward.. most of the times i kept on telling her to keep right, and simply walk straight... next when i was blind folded, it was very difficult for me to understand her... she always asked me to kept left... eventually, i asked her to keep blabbering for i would follow her voice... and ta-da it actually worked!! yeah, fun!!
our next destination was a mandir... very famous one in the small village of Anori... there no leather stuff was allowed... we were aksed to take off our socks and shoes... futher were divided into teams of 6.. mine included govind, rachit, rishika, sanya and mithali... we were given a paper and a marker and were assigned to collect as many information of the temple as possible in 20 minutes... luckily govind got hang of a person who was a local, lived there only and told us about every possible thing about the temple as well as the neighbourhood... the temple was about 450years old, built by lord Bheem. it's temple of Goddess Sudipta...there was even two large rocks, probably weighing around 100 kgs and it is said that Lord Bheem used to play with them.. many guys were able to pick up those rocks.. it is also said if you pick up that rock and are able to throw it and also make a wish, it tends to come true... there was also a tiny kaali maa ka mandir, near which we were standing, that was our group and listening to that guy who was giving all the info that suddenly a lady, must be in her 40s, starts wild dancing, throwing the prashad all over the place, moving her head which made her hair go here and there just like a witch's... she ran towards us... i got soo freaking scared that i ran... and then came to know she was not running towards us but the temple of kaali maa... a guy, sort of priest came, took hold of her, placed his palm on her temples and chanting something which calmed that old lady... on asking we came to know that it happens everyday but to different people for kaali maa decents herself into one of her true believers...
moving on, the instructors were like they would quiz us on the info that we had collected... we had 4 pages filled with soo much about the place, just like an enclyopedia... we trekked back the same way only that we stopped at a bridge... it was actually shivering.. it was an ancient one.. we crossed that and then there was a wall like pavement... we all sat there..and at that venue we were quized... and ka-ching, our team won... wasnt that obvious, already!! hehehe!
two activites : check, one to go... as we moved on from that place, about 200 metres ahead, it was a grass covered area, where the groups of six were divided into 3... it was mithali rachit and me this time... out of the three one had to be blind folded, one had to be the intrepretor of the signs the third one gave who could not speak to the blind folded one in order to collect the missing pieces of the hoopla... ghosh that was fun... following that we played a game known as ''big fish-small fish''.. while coming back, a goat followed us... followed us till we reached the camp... she was named ''bak-bak''
as soon as we reached the camp, we were pretty tired... however it was the solo time when we reached...so we took our cool book and and i took my fav place near the river... the solo time, was pure bliss... even though i have it at home also but a solo time on beach, is like the icing on cake... ummm.. lol
that evening, after it as almost dark, torches were out... all 36 of us were scttered.. we had soup... talked... sat on the stools, it was anupam, mayank, harshi and me, later joined by shagun... we'd talk about movies, life back home... and how we were not that homesick, now, atleast... hehe... probably after an hour or so, it started drizziling... the weather got worse... biting cold, freezing wind... awful stormm... we were wearing our pullovers already but now, we were holding our tents, so that they dont fly... lol... well another experience in itself... before dinner was served, we all 36 were in the common place sitting. a guy was playing the mini keyboard, few playing the mini congos and another a guitar... later on, the series of ghost stories started. Tara sir, took the initiative... so the 2-3 source of lights we had was switched off and we made a circle around him... the ghost story apparantly wasnt that scary... see, if a person like me didnt get scare, so you can imagine that at the end of it, the ghost story was not even a bit horror, rather lame...
i was so tired that i had no strenght to even open my eyes that night thus i had sound sleep.. shagun was a great help that night, for she was aware of my fear so she gave me her torch before she slept... the storm continued for a while at night... but the funniest part was, in the middle of nowhere, bak-bak started with her ''mei-mei-mei'' at night... and started pulling shardooli's blanket.. lol... it was soo funnyy.... i couldnt stop laughing...
and then, i eventually felt groggy and laughing-laughing, i went back to sleep...
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past 3 days, i'm feeling pretty awkward...probably now that i'm back home, i'm mountain-sick... everyone said that '' we didnt realise how just time flew''... but somehow i disagreed with them... i felt each and everyday... i felt each moment i'd spent there, absorb it in me so hard, that it might because of that now, i feel weird being back home...but good at the same time as well :)
today in the morning i had gone for aerobics with saloni and landed up spending the whole day with her... it was soo much of fun... in the afternoon weather became so awesome for it drizzeled. so saloni called me up and was like ''lets go somewhere...'' we met again.. and then, first we went to meet, Pradeep sir, my tution sir... he's preparing for CA now, so he's completely turned his look to that of devdas... long hair, seemes like he havent shaved for like a month and that look on his 6 feet frame made sir look even taller... i felt totally, completely nostalgic when i went to the tution centre.. i was missing sitting in the class, sleeping-yawning, when sir taught boring subjects and what not, well, i'll write another post on my tution..
tomorow starts my 2nd month if belly dancing.
i have a guitar class on 25th and i havent practiced at all, will do that probably tomorrow!!
else, my dad called to ask me what i wanted from US... apparantly i sent bua a big email, flaterring her and all and in the end asked her to tell dad to get me the most beautiful diary in the earth for my *svt16*
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