Monday, November 17, 2008
[I'm sitting on the far right with a water bottle in front]Wow! Our basketball team travelled to New Delhi for the SAISA tournament on Wednesday 12th November. After all the hassle of transit in Chennai and then picking up baggage in Delhi we were rounded into a corner by our coach and informed that the tournament was cancelled since a student at AES had got meningitis. This being a highly infective disease, the campus had been closed. Unfortunately, our school was the only one in Delhi since we had decided to come early. At first i was just shocked, it actually felt like some strange dream. The only good part was that atleast we were in Delhi, my home for the past three years.
The next 24 hours were just crazy. We travelled to our guest house (just 10mins from my old house!) , then left to Agra (Taj Mahal) at 4 in the morning, and were delayed by half an hour since the driver lost the way! wow
The Taj Mahal and the history behind it was actually pretty breathtaking (even though it was my third time) and our group managed to have a good time.
We came back to our guest house at 10 in the night. Extraordinarily, i called some of my friends at AES to find that all of them had actually gone to school that Thursday. Campus closed??
Well, we left to the airport at 4 that Friday morning flying to Chennai, laying off there for three hours before flying to back to Colombo.
Coming back home, i seriously couldnt believe i had left the place!
Thankfully, my dad has agreed to pay $200 for our trip back to Delhi this week and i will have to add $100 from my own cash. Tough, but atleast i get to see my friends and participate in saisa, with an increased desire to win the tournament now!
The next 24 hours were just crazy. We travelled to our guest house (just 10mins from my old house!) , then left to Agra (Taj Mahal) at 4 in the morning, and were delayed by half an hour since the driver lost the way! wow
The Taj Mahal and the history behind it was actually pretty breathtaking (even though it was my third time) and our group managed to have a good time.
We came back to our guest house at 10 in the night. Extraordinarily, i called some of my friends at AES to find that all of them had actually gone to school that Thursday. Campus closed??
Well, we left to the airport at 4 that Friday morning flying to Chennai, laying off there for three hours before flying to back to Colombo.
Coming back home, i seriously couldnt believe i had left the place!
Thankfully, my dad has agreed to pay $200 for our trip back to Delhi this week and i will have to add $100 from my own cash. Tough, but atleast i get to see my friends and participate in saisa, with an increased desire to win the tournament now!
Monday, November 10, 2008
Yesterday (9 Nov/2008) the Boys Basketball team hosted an annual 5k run to raise money for OSC's many charity projects. The amount of planning going into this was pretty amazing, with our coach having to carefully outline the course, get sponsors, t-shirts and ofcourse, the trophies!
On raceday 8 members of the basketball team were posted at various tricky points on course where it was likely that the runner's might go the wrong way. For me it was pretty weird and yet a completely great experience at the same time. I was situated between two paddy fields with a few local houses nearby. I had my orange chair there with a digital camera and phone, dressed in t-shirt and shorts. Quite suddenly, I was being overlooked by many locals staring at me, and me feeling pretty awkward. Add to this, the race was on a Sunday, when Bhuddhists go to temple in the morning. I was seated in front of a deafening microphone reciting Bhuddhist scripture. In addition, there was a special ceremony being held at the temple, which meant i was being surrounded by many Bhuddhist monks as well.
The whole scene was pretty erratic to me yet a good new experience to go through. The race went off pretty well with our superfit Physics teacher coming in with the fastest time of 21:34! In total 148 people signed up donating 74,000 rupees.
On raceday 8 members of the basketball team were posted at various tricky points on course where it was likely that the runner's might go the wrong way. For me it was pretty weird and yet a completely great experience at the same time. I was situated between two paddy fields with a few local houses nearby. I had my orange chair there with a digital camera and phone, dressed in t-shirt and shorts. Quite suddenly, I was being overlooked by many locals staring at me, and me feeling pretty awkward. Add to this, the race was on a Sunday, when Bhuddhists go to temple in the morning. I was seated in front of a deafening microphone reciting Bhuddhist scripture. In addition, there was a special ceremony being held at the temple, which meant i was being surrounded by many Bhuddhist monks as well.
The whole scene was pretty erratic to me yet a good new experience to go through. The race went off pretty well with our superfit Physics teacher coming in with the fastest time of 21:34! In total 148 people signed up donating 74,000 rupees.
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