Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Return from the best Camp ever

      Its great to be back in Mumbai.The Camp was wonderfully organized and not for a second I felt bored(which I normally do).I am not quite happy that no one except Sarvesh(good work man)contributed on the blog(I mean the teenagers).I guess no one opened the blog to see the challenge set by me.
     The International Youth Camp organized by the Goethe Max-Mueller Bhavan was without doubt the best camp I have ever visited.It was really a global camp.8 from Pakistan,2 from Afghanistan, 4 from Coimbatore, 3 from Sri Lanka, 2 from Mohali ,2 from Nepal, 4 from Chandigarh , many many people from Delhi and a lone ranger from Mumbai had participated in the camp. While Indians may be more in number,but other countries made their presence felt by their enthusiasm. My roommates were the two Sardars from Mohali. Funnily these were over-punctual Sardars( They used to wake me atleast half an hour before our sir used to come to give us the wake up call). Overall the punjabi population was more but in their domination I found 3 really good(non punjabi) friends. Aryaman Dubey(Delhi),Qasim Mujtaba(Karachi) and Milad Ahmad(Kabul). We were 4 really different people, from different areas and still became great friends.This was the beauty of the camp. Teachers used to talk with us in german always(I mean literally)and asked us to do the same.They used to dance with us on Dj nights( which were everyday) and used to have mischief with us( We forced Dhruv sir into doing mujra).By the way all teacher were 25-35 so were young enough for us to trouble them(Our main teacher used to come and stop the DJ night at 11 and we used to play 'Abhi na jao chodh kar'). On the last day nearly everyone was misty eyed and many people were having tears in their eyes, knowing that not many would meet them again.Today while leaving even always joking Qasim was upset (He had said that he didn't know whether he would be able to come India again, you know the issues right).
    While I have returned to Mumbai now,the very thought that the camp has ended haunts me. I hope that someday I will meet them again and have the same(or if possible more) fun together.Signing out-
                                                                                                         
     
                                                                                          Aniruddha
   

6 comments:

  1. You have kept your promise.
    Thanks for giving us a glimpse of your camp.

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  2. thanks for sharing this very enriching experience. Pakistani people do find it very difficult to obtain a visa for a passage to India. Where was this camp?

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  3. the comments are from radha, sandeep and vaishali

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  4. the camp was in Gurgaon. It was organized by Max-Mueller Bhavan of New Delhi

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  5. कॅँपला गेलास हे चांगलं केलंस.लिहीलंसही चांगलं. इंग्रजी सुधारलय असं वाटतं. तज्ज्ञांना काय वाटत हे मला माहित नाही.
    अशा extra-curricular activitiesचा फायदा खूपच असताो. मला तर वाटतं की प्रत्येकाने 10 वी 12 वी सुट्टीत Youth Hostelचा ट्रेक करावा.

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