This weekend was full of fun. I did write about the ‘rocking’ part but that’s not the only good time I had. It started with dinner at a friends place on Friday night followed by amazing (raised to the power n and n tends to infinity :-) ) Christmas Party on Saturday morning. Now you will ask, Party in the morning? Yeah it was hell of a party. First ever Christmas party I attended and it will not be the last one for sure :-).
This year round, I have been involved with small time volunteering work here and there but this was different. Imagine having close to 2500 children around you singing, dancing, jumping, clapping (sunshine claps and star claps and rocket claps, have you ever heard of them?)! Just the idea of having so many kids together at one place is scary and how you keep the glued together for continuous four hours? You have to be part of such function to get the answer. There were just kids, their teachers and we volunteers, no ‘dignitaries’, no speeches, praising each other n stuff like that. And there was face-painting, magic show, rock show, dance performances, singing, Santa clause, gifts all exclusively for kids and by kids.
What were we in-charge of? Work! The work ranges from decorating the place, to packing food parcels, painting the kids faces (Christmas trees, Santas, hearts, stars, smileys), dancing on the stage (yeah, one school needed volunteers to dance with the kids. Not to mention I was the first one to go!), taking kids to the loo, clearing the place (we actually swept the whole basketball court!). Some volunteers had started early morning (around 4 am or so) to collect kids from their schools. Everybody was working in such a close coordination; nobody was needed to be given instructions twice. And how many of them I knew to start with? None! Isn’t that the true spirit of working together?
The party was called “Chrysallis 2006” and is organized every year in Bangalore for under-privileged children by organization called Chrysallis. You can join the yahoo group here and orkut community here.
If you love kids, this is the place to be!
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6 comments:
wow! u r into some really interesting things!
Thanks. It is really great fun to be part of such things :-).
On a second note, I can't open your blog at all from office :-(. DNS cries everytime.
reminded me of something similar we used to do in chennai about couple of years ago.we were working with an orphanage and we took gifts for kids on christmas.It was wonderful being among those kids and watch their brimming faces.Being among such a huge celebraion should have been wonderful experience for you :)
That is super cool! 2500 kids!!!It must awesome..I am glad that you are part of some worthwhile efforts! Great going girl!
@Alpenglow
You bet. It was just awsome!
@Resh
Thanks sweets. I am glad that I got involved in these activities... life is so different now. Thanks to you off course for introducing me to this :-)
wow! we had the best time didnt we :) and to think we didnt even meet there but found each other here :) joy to the world.. ;)
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