A rendezvous....

...with Kids.

This Sunday happened to be a really jolly day. Spending time with kids always gives us sheer happiness taking us back to our own sweet childhood days. So was this Sunday for me. We got an opportunity to take some kids of a tamil medium govt school in a village called Kovur, a 38 of them, out for an educational trip (it turned out to be a full fun-trip for them, for all of us actually!). Thanks to Divya for the amazing opportunity. Divya teaches for 17 of those kids (of diff age groups) every Saturday. Teach India is an organization moderated by Times of India. She’s registered with the organization and Kovur was allocated for her. MACT is the NGO responsible for that village that takes care of all the needs of those kids. Divya had planned to take them to the Planetarium and made arrangements with the help of this organization MACT. They helped arrange the van and the snacks for the kids. Thanks to Aish n Nachi for inviting me to be a part of it. At 1 in the afternoon I joined the group in the van at Nandambakam to be greeted by those kids with smiling faces. They started screaming ‘good morning ma’am’ n ‘ hi ma’am ’in excitement. Ha ha I was excited too! Got introduced to them and learnt a few names of the mischievous lot. We picked up Sowmya on the way and reached Planetarium by 2. Got the tickets for the 3.45 show there and took the kids to the sci-park there. They were all so excited and played happily. We were absolutely elated in turn, watching them play around happily! We watched a 10 minute 3D video then which made me scream along with the kids esp when the serpent came towards me! God, that was really frightening. At 3.45, the show began. The ambience of that place and the projector at the centre of the room and the hemispherical screen everything made them excited all over again. They were fascinated and were attentive for almost 10 minutes when the basics about the solar system and the planets were stated. Later they couldn’t understand much of what was being said and almost every1 of us felt sleepy!;)

It was almost 5 by the time the show got over and we distributed them their snacks and chocolates, so it was decided to take them back to their place. But the kids insisted on staying and visiting the children’s park or some other place. There wasn’t much time left so we just took them to the Gandhi mandapam that was nearby and clicked pics with them there. The fall of dusk reminded us that it was time to bid goodbye to them. End of the day there was a genuine smile on everybody’s face and you know what magical impact any kid’s smile can bestow on us. Though minding the children and heeding to their needs seemed to be a strenuous exercise but then it was all fun and the contentment and gratification we felt end of the day is just indescribable! And thanks to those amazing kids for they just made my day!:)

Signing off,
Happy Me:)