ANDHA EZHU(7) NAATKAL - PART 1

This is a very special blog to me. I was wondering for more than a week about how to put these "Blissful days" of my life into words. Some unimaginable things happened that bestowed good changes. It all started on 23 Aug, 3.30 pm at Chennai central. Total of 94 enthusiastic students including me, were waiting eagerly to board the Ernakulam express. Myself and Siddarth, being freshers in organizing, were looking at each others blank faces with cold blood flowing through our veins. We were not sure about how we were going to manage those three days. I have gone for many tours during my school days, but this one was quite different. I presume that my enjoyment was washed away due to responsibility on my shoulders. But sometimes, as I said in the previous post you just need to be thrown into cold water and learn to swim. This is what we started doing that day.

So, at 4.00pm exactly the signals changed from red to green and our journey started. The first thing that forestalled my enjoyment in the train was the bloody squad. ( to whome we paid 2000rs fine) Then during the night, in train it was one of the fantastic dinner I had with a whole bunch of my class mates packed inside a single part of the coach. It was my first sleepless night...... We also got blasted from a constable for giving lot of trouble to the co-passengers. Actually, we were making a lot of noise which disturbed their sleep.
Next day, we stepped into the STAR LAGOON hotel. Till date, its one of the finest hotel I've been. I fell on the bed with my shoes as I was travel-worn. Meanwhile, Sidd and Vigneshwaran went inside the bathrooms (I mean, they went to two different, separate, "heterosexual" bathrooms) and it took nearly half an our for them to get out. Really no idea why it took so long for them to bath. Then, we all got ready to hit the streets of Cochin. The "crack brained" travel agent, made us wait for nearly one hour on the road and wait for the bus (with our empty stomach) which really pissed me off. Unable to control his hunger,Vijay started swearing at the Agent, which the latter grumbled to me later.So, it started out to be a very dull morning and the 'boring' ferry ride added to it.


P.S : There is still an amazing evening and another sleepless night ahead....... In my next post...................