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| My cast (smaller one) |
Okay, summer is over and it's back to school
for a new year of work now I'm a Year 8. But I'm sure you want to know what I
did for 6 weeks during summer hols (yeah, I know you didn't hear from
me). I spent my days in India and I definitely did a lot of things.
Along with having the opportunity to meet relatives and
experience the culture over there, I also managed to make a bunch of new
friends and memories to remember, good and bad.
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| Me in The Hindu |
It’s funny thinking about it
now but it definitely wasn't fun when I fractured my arm only 2 days in to my
holidays. While running after a goose in my friend’s farm, I slipped and, lo
and behold, my arm was stuck in a massive cast for 5 weeks. Eek! :( Arm stuck
in one position, I spent the next week unable to play anything but cards with
my cousins before they were off to USA again.
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| The village area |
Guess who ran cast and all for 10k and then
was in the The Hindu newspaper the next day. Yes, meeeee! :) Me and my mum ran in a night marathon, it was sure
hard especially at the end but I persevered and for my first run managed to
finish just 5 mins off my target time of 1 hour 30 mins. I
made good friends with all the kids too, rushing to get multiple Glow-bands.
The next day, we went to the movies as a treat, me and one of my new
found friends enjoying popcorn and ice cream throughout.
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| Fun in the stream |
With the upcoming of Independence Day, a couple of messages around and we were going to Agali, Kerala. At this point, I had a removable cast, so I was okay going. On August 15th, we all met up and trooped into
two minivans ’sorted out' by moi and set out on our
Freedom Agali trip.
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| Freedom Agali group |
On the way, I saw the Western Ghats and beautiful sights and then we arrived at Agali, to swim in the river for hours.
It was absolutely amazing because I had never swam in a river in such beautiful
surrounding, making my way through the rocks and current while posing for
photos, playing in the water and falling. One of the Best days ever!! :)
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| Fixing the casing |
A few days after, one of my relatives let me and my parents visit their Transformer
factory which I have to say was a life experience. I was fascinated to see the whole production
line from plain steel to workers coiling the wire to fixing the casing and even final quality checks.
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| Finished Transformer |
I saw the making
of the plastic moulds just like how I had made Injection-moulds in school but
on a bigger scale. I even got a view of the gardens, its unique plants
and koi fish as well as getting a lesson in how a generator works too. I learnt so so so much and saw the way factories worked in
India especially compared to here in the UK.
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| Local restaurant |
Arm finally healed, I said goodbye to my friends and then we took a sleeper bus
(yes, I know, it was pretty cool) to Pondicherry to spend a week doing eye
exercises in the School of Perfect Eyesight because my power is -6! I went in the morning and in the evening for a week checking my
power at the beginning and at the end. It was
different to how I expected but at the end of the week I
had improved by 0.5. During lessons I went through all the given exercises
including Palming and Candle-lighting reading. The lessons were a different way of benefiting the eyes and
I thought it was actually really effective.
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| Chennai beach |
Holiday almost coming to an end, we headed to Chennai for the last three days
and it was impossibly HOT! We went to the B.M Birla
Planetarium and Science Museum indoors. Although it was pretty quiet that day, we had plenty of time to view
all the areas and learn a couple of things too. The planetarium was
really cool and I loved being immersed in the stars! We also went to the famous Chennai beach in the evening on our last day.
Finally at the end, we took our
plane home, happy yet tired, a great holidays behind. Yep, it was definitely
one of the best summers :)
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