Welcome, again..

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So people.. 

Welcome to the blog, again.. ;)

Seeing light

im not going to do the tedious job of trying to enlist everything that happened or was said on Thursday by the DG or anything.. but when he was talking, i was following a chain of thoughts of my own.. he kept showing so much enthu and all i kept feeling was that can we do it, can we handle 5 lacs, could we talk in international conventions, do we know what to expect, can we even prepare for it?

we do work and we have started working really well of late, i see people enjoying things done, i guess it is shown by the kind of ideas we come up with, trying to break the monotonicity in any project.. like that painting competition held in the slums last week

my only concern is that we are what we are.. we are a bunch of students, inexperienced and with no guidance(even the rotary guys will frankly admit that they are not very good at working either).. and we have no clue of channelizing the money to help people.. we know the life in basanti colony is waaay below any humane limit, but we are not able to help, we dint or couldn't buy chairs for them.. we help people, but only upto a certain limit, lifting that limit and goin one step further is the big big step and will require much more commitment than a couple of hours a week.. we havta start working, planning, make rotaract a important priority which cant be sidelined.

i liked the DG a lot though, he was willing to help.. n the obvious question on my mind is why?
well the most obvious answer to that is he is a good man.. but that would be too uninteresting, no?
so either the district is doing absolutely nothing and he may havta answer to some higher authority and thus wants to show some work or maybe he gets some money for us doing work.. lol.. i know but im a cynic.

well, what else. lazy bums.

Give me a red pen of any colour...

Our college saw a new DG.. Not our usual Maths HoD Sahoo with his legendary "Give me a red pen of any colour".. We were visited today by the Rotary District 3260 DG Mr. Dilip Patnaik.. There was a small presentation about the club identity and our work profile, accompanied by a small and very-well-appreciated skit titled "Sab Chalta Hai" by the first years.. 

A brief overview of our future plans was also given, which was highly encouraged by the DG. He seemed to be very impressed by our work, and confessed that our club had reinstated his faith in the Rotaract movement.. 

And of course, there were refreshments.. So what with all the drinks [soft, and not that cold :( ] and the sandwiches, which most of the first years didnt get, [and didnt miss much either ;)]  all in all, an evening well spent.. :)

And nice work, first years.. But lets just make a new skit the next time around, cos even though the "old" one works, it doesnt change the fact that it still is the "old" one.. :D

Happy Birthday Thomman..

This post commemorates the birthday treat given by Thomman Thomas, President, RotaractNITR, on the 17th of November, 2008 at RENGCOL... 

Thanks for the treat, Thomman..

And of course..

Hippy birthday maite.. :) 

wednesday meeting for the first years

We got the information of a meeting by our president and that too a very firm one sayin that every one us shuold be present there and no excuses will be entertained.....

We all were in a vain for what the meeting was for.... Interestingly it was to scold us a bit... but we didnt got much of the scolding as after sometime we were enjoying the meeting because of one of our group member (abhishek)..... and in the enjoyment the we forgot our scoldings ..........
but in this meeting the president was really angry .... and we got a serios blow from him..... but thank god at the end we were spared by him.....
And the abhishek part was really good ...........

Sector-2 -- Slum Education

The first regular project that ,we, the first years got was the sector-2, slum education...

We were divded in groups of two( which is now three because of newly inducted members ) and we went to sector 2 on weekends afternoon to share a bit of our knowledge with the children living there..
So as a weekly routine we are going to sector 2, which is not very far from our insti to teach the children .... After reaching the place , with the help of our seniors we collect all the children at one palce and divide the children in various groups each headed by one of us and teach the stuff they are being taught in their classes. But some children there are so small that they dont go to schools and making them learn the basic things like the english alphabets and the numbers is really a bit difficult task for us also....but neverthless we are tryin our level best to make them learn the things they require....... And there are some also who go to school but mug up the things taught to them without understanding ........ and a few of them are unfortunate to go to school......
But as we count the list we also find some children who are bright enough and if given a little help and guidence can do really well..
These children not only require our so called knowledge but sumone who could make them understand what they are reading and to make them understand the need of what they are reading..

But things seldomly happen as they are planned ...........


Although we have been informed of our groups and on what day we have to go , but........
as happened last week there was some communication problem between us and we didnt know exactly which group was to go on sunday as on saturday none of the groups were supposed to go ........ as a consequence few of us turned up last time i.e. on sunday.............


But we were not pardoned for our mistake and we got a serious scolding from our president in the weekly meeting on very next day i.e. monday.............
And after last meeting I dont think we will ever be late for our work or will not come.....