Picnic! Isn’t it like that amazing word which fills our heart with lots of joy, fun and excitement? I felt something like this when I heard that our whole class IXth would be going on a picnic on the 10th of February, 2011. I heard this great news from my friend on the 8th of February. After that I was waiting eagerly for those two days to pass. When the 10th finally came, I was filled with lots of excitement in my soul. I went to school and attended the morning assembly and then we boarded the bus, specially reserved for IXth-E, i.e. my class. When the bus didn’t move we started shouting Hindi slogans like “bus ko aage to badhao”. After 15-20 minutes, it started to move and the whole gang burst into songs.
We shouted and sang very loudly. My friend started to tease the boys. Then, finally we reached the J.K.Temple, which was a beautiful Temple. We took some pictures and roamed all around the garden from 10:30A.M to 11:33A.M. At around 11:15 A.M the Temple doors opened with an amazing sound of the ‘dhol’ and the ‘naggada’ played by the pandits. This sound signifies that all the devotees are welcome inside for the ‘arti’ of lord Radha-Krishna.
Inside the temple we saw some doors were made by silver while some were simple. We also saw the best pictures of Radha Krishna made by a special type of marble. These pictures were very beautiful. We enjoyed the arti and then joined the class lines. Girls on the right and boys on left. Our class teacher counted us and we were back inside the bus.
We couldn’t even figure out how these precious two hours went by. We were also really hungry so we munched the food that we brought from home. After that we started singing and enjoying a lot with our friends, yet again. Then after 30 odd minutes we reached to the Japanese Garden. It was fascinating too.
Our teachers went to the ticket house and bought tickets for all the children so that we could enjoy fully. As we entered the Garden we saw the strangest scenes ever. We were irritated by seeing them after travelling all the way to see the beauty of the nature and to relax while enjoying some victuals. We just planned to hoot wherever we saw those scenes. Everything went according to the plan and we were hooting all around, thereafter.
In a very silent place we sat and took our lunch, we were also singing but we don’t know how a boy, who doesn’t like that song just passed across us and misinterpreted that we were teasing him. But we were actually singing just for fun. That was a bit of a mood spoiler, but we lifted our spirits, as such incidents are a part and parcel of such fun-filled journeys.
We then sat beside a couple and sang “mummy ko nahi hai pata……” but it was probably a wrong couple as they replied to us that “sorry bachchon we are married couple”. Suddenly, a silence was there and we just confirmed whether the couple was married or not by singing the song “jisne pehle shadi ki…zor ka jhatka…” After the whole masti we went to see the lake from the bridge. And then our class teacher counted us and we were back in the bus and songs, hooting and whistling resumed in full scale. Then we reached our school and took some pictures as a souvenir and we were really tired. When I reached my home, I went to bed and got a sleep of 4 hours without any disturbance. That was really a fun-filled and a good experience for me.
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