Visit to old age home 2

“Happiness spreads happiness” this statement is true because if one is happy then he/she radiates positive energy which makes all happy. We went to Old age home where we were divided into 2 groups. One was Nishad, Mukul, Agam, Hyunju and and the other was me (Chinmay), Kaustubh, and Dasom. 1^st group went to ladies section and we went to gents. We started with introduction and found that very few were interested in interacting with us. I found difficulty when Raja Babu (one of the old) was chatting but was not as involved as I wanted him to be. He was playing card with his mate and was not paying any attention on me. I tried many times with many people but maximum times failed. I helped Dasom in interacting with many as she was finding a little difficult to communicate in Hindi. In all 48 males only 1 was there who knew English. Dasom started interacting with him. I found a group of 4 who were really interested in talking about their life and knowing about mine. We started chatting about their favorite movies and I found few like “SEEMA, DO AANKHE BARAH HANTH, and many more”. I promised them to bring my laptop and show them 1 of the movies they want. I learnt many new things and understood that life is not as easy as it seems. Way of chatting with them was really important; it should be non-aggressive and non-comic as it can hurt someone’s sentiments. I found that my personal problems were nothing in front of their. This activity is a way to encourage them to come up with new things and make them happy. I am trying to give them happiness so that they show interested in doing new things and have fun.

Gardening 2

Amazing!! The growth rate of plants is really very high than human growth rate. Within a short period of time all the plants came out of the buried seeds. All the plants were near about the 3-4 inches tall. All were happy to see that because it was the result of collective effort put by all of us. Our supervisor is really knowledgeable about the plants and their growth. I learnt many new techniques of planting and taking their care. I also learnt new important details of planting. We watered the plants after loosening the soil around the plant so that water easily seeps into it and can be absorbed by roots easily. I dug around the plants and also pour some the manure so that plant can grow well.

Gardening 1

From the beginning of my life I had a special interest in gardening that may be because of my mother because she is very much interested in plants and flowers. When, while talking the idea of gardening came forward and after a long discussion we decided to take this challenge. It was an amazing idea to show up and prove many things. We proposed this and started working on garden. Our first job was to make a place where we can work and most important that it should contain path in between to work. We all got together designed a garden and started our work. I was really tiring to keep big stones in place and built a fence. Our supervisor Miss. Vijyalakshmi brought seeds and equipments for us to work. I got to dig and make space for seeds in ground. After putting seeds in ground and covering them back we all were seeking permission to sprinkle water over them and I was one of them.

Visit to old age home 1

It is funny how everyone wants to live long but no one wants to grow old. Old age is viewed as an unavoidable, undesirable, problem-ridden phase of life that we all are compelled to live, marking time until our final exit from life itself. Parents work throughout our lives hoping that our later age will be good. They sacrifice our numerous things from their lives and many a times they also shatter their dreams just for the sake of their child’s well. Life shows them many bad and good days which count as their experience of life.

Human is a social creature and obviously a bit selfish. Each and every person thinks for himself first and then about the people or society. But, parents are exceptions. They never think for anything in return from their children. They only want that their children should be happy but, at least they deserve to live happily and peacefully. They also want someone to take care of them or at least they can enjoy their last days with their children and grandchildren.

This is true that all are not so lucky that they get whatever they deserve. Sometimes they were pushed out of the house by their own children just her/his husband/wife doesn’t want them to live with them. Sometimes when they beg their own children to take them back or they refuse to go. They are brutally beaten and thrown out of the house.

Today we started on our new plan of taking care and making happy to handicap and old age people. We visited an active old age home for old and handicap. Their sister Maria discussed all the details of the old age home. We met many people including old men, small children, and old women. We had little chat with many of them; we introduced ourselves to them and promised them that we will be back soon. There was a man named Narendra Roy. He was tailor in his youth and is now also making cloths for x-mas for under privileged ones. He started his work from 1977 (in Bombay) and shifted to Nagpur 3 years back. He came here because he doesn’t have anybody in his life now. His wife and son died and he was alone in this world. As, I told you earlier human is a social animal and wants someone to hear him. So, he came here and new friends and is happily living here. Due to time bondage we were unable to spend more time but we made them happy in such a small period.

After, seeing small children in that position I was speechless and learnt life is not as easy as it seems. Now, I have started to plan for my next visit. This new task is real and I hope to be successful in it. In this activity we all will be helping each other and try to make maximum people aware about the situation.

Ground development and fitness of students

“You can't make a great play unless you do it first in practice.”—Chuck Noll
and when I was reading this it struck me that “practice makes a man perfect” and for a good practice in sports we want good equipments and grounds. Equipments are not a big deal because our school is providing it all. Second was the ground, we planed and asked for the permission from school authority and  put up our proposals of cleaning and developing the ground. we started with cleaning 1st ground and cleaned two patches of land to make volley-ball courts. using image from trusted site which we used to make measurements. We measured the court but it was not correct. We had a very difficult time during making the courts. First difficulty faced was the straight line. We were not able to make straight line as we were not sure of any specific technique to do that. All were helping each other in solving it. All of a sudden we got an idea of using the rope as a compose.We tried the simple construction method which was taught to us in junior classes. With the help of rope we did a fabulous job and completed the task. The shape of the court was a rectangular. Where, length was 18 m and breadth was 9m. It was then divided into 2 halves. We sketch the center line and then leaving 3 m on each side drew another lines.   

Next task was to put the poles in right position. we measured the length of the pole and and the required length and accordingly dug the hole. The poles are adjustable so we set it for men and which was in other way was for women. It was 2.43 m which was really high and then the final touch of tying the net. I felt very good after doing it because it was the thing which will be useful to many people. We tied net and marked the court with white lime.

The most amazing feeling was when I saw children of junior classes playing and enjoying the volley-ball game.

Reflection on the forth newsletter (August issue)

“He who fails to plan, plans to fail”

Planning is very important for everyone in everything. I also believe that it’s very important to have a plan in hand before going for task. Sometimes it’s ok; when we get second chance but few times life doesn’t give you second chance. We were 9 people, and working on same newsletter was not a good idea because in that case all can’t show their real capability. So, we decided to divide ourselves into two groups.

1^st group was consist of me (Chinmay Toriya), Mukul Vaswani, Agam Bhatia, Hyunju Baek and Trisha Gupta.

And 2^nd group was Nishad Potdar, Kaustubh Chahhande, Dasom Chun, and Aalya Bhatt.

Using luck of chance we went for chit draw for the selection of months to publish news letter. We got first and started discussing and distributing jobs among ourselves. We decided that:

Mukul Vaswani (Editor and Designer)

Hyunju Baek (Writer)

Trisha Gupta (Writer)

Agam Bhatia (Fun corner and photographer)

Chinmay Toriya (Photographer and reporter)

This month we were having our Independence Day, Talent show and some minor activities of school. My job was to collect information from different teachers about minor activities and taking photographs. On 15^th august I was photographer because I knew it will not be possible on 27^th because I will be the MC (master of ceremony). I tried to take maximum possible photographs. I faced many problems because many a time’s people were coming in between. Many a time’s photograph was coming a bit shaky. Now, I can say “I did my job pretty well because the pictures are good and many people appreciated it. I learnt new techniques of taking pictures. I also got a practical experience of it on one of the big celebration of our school.

I collected the information written over it and passed it to editor. Actually, it was fun but at the same time full of difficulties because collecting minor thing takes a lot of time. This time I enjoyed a lot while making the news letter, let’s hope for the best for the next time.

Talent Show

Sometimes life gives only one opportunity to show up your talent and here in our school this opportunity is given. When I was going through our yearly time table of school I found talent show to be scheduled on 27^th August. After seeing this, my first reaction was “Yes! I got what I wanted.” I took permission from activity in charge Miss. Chloe to take me as a master of ceremony (MC) and asked her to take me as a participant. This was life time first experience to stand in public and speak this improve my confidence, speaking skills, and also the body language. I asked the participants list, arranged (planned) them in sequence and wrote few lines for each of them. I practiced a lot and tried to be fluent. As said “no one can judge you better than yourself” I personally like each and every line I said. I also asked teachers to help me in learning new ways of presenting in front of mob. I also prepared for my participation. The show was great all were happy, everyone was praising the show. And I really learnt a lot from this activity.