Ahemdabad

GROUP TEACHER: MANISH SIR

GROUP CAPTAIN: VISHAL THAPA

  

  

  

  

 

STUDENTS OF THE GROUP
Sagar Sharma

Priyanka Sharma

Shivam Joshi

Priyanka Kumari

Sanjeet Singh

Neha Panwar

Kritika Kumari

Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad, Gujarat’s principal city, is one of the major industrial cities in India. It is called the ‘Manchester of the East’ due to its many textile industries.

Over the centuries, Ahmedabad has had a number of periods of grandeur, each followed by decline. It was originally founded in 1411 by Ahmed Shah, from whom the city takes its name, and in the 17^th century was thought to be one of the finest cities in India.

We arrived at Ahmadabad on the 10^th of January after travelling three and a half hours from Baroda. Though it was the last destination for our trip to Gujarat, the vivaciousness and excitement of students made us forget all our tiredness. The views of the awesome and beautiful historical places made us feel being in heaven. We felt we had been given a windfall that people rarely get.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We arrived at Sabarmati Ashram at 12 am, where 21 Rajput Regiment escorted us nicely and arranged our refreshments. We were very delighted with comfort and cozy accommodation provided to us in Ahmedabad by the Regiments. Subedar Ramjanki Singh received us with his team. He was a very good and cooperative person belonging to Gonda district of UP.

The first place we visited after arriving in Ahmedabad was the Sabarmati Ashram which endowed and made us aware of the legacy that the father of nation Mahatma Gandhi left for people. It was seven km away from the centre of town and was situated on the west bank of Sabarmati River. This was Gandhiji’s Headquarters during the long struggle for independence. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sabarmati Ashram was founded in 1915 and to this day, handicrafts, handmade paper and spinning wheels are produced here.

Manish sir got impressed with their hand work and bought two cotton spinning wheels as a token of remembrance for that place.

 We went for lunch and after having the delicious lunch we headed towards the Akshardham temple which was on a distance of seven km only from our camp. At 3: 15 pm we were at Akshardham temple. We were very excited to see the big building of the temple with beautiful carving on it. Many people were there, so Manish sir was worried about our safety and he gave us a lot of instructions to be followed. Neeraj bhai checked our neck bag and after clearing a very tight security we were inside the temple.
As we entered the temple we got shocked by the beauty of that monument. Subedar Ram Janki Das told us that on December 2003 this temple was attacked by terrorist and about thirty people were killed. Akshardham is dedicated to lord ‘Narayan swami’. We entered the main room and saw a huge golden statue of ‘Narayan Swami’. After visiting temple we came out and now we were suppose to see a big exhibition on ‘Narayan Swami’ and about Akshar Dham.

The Army arranged our tickets and as we were about to enter the auditorium, we all got awestruck by the antique sculptures, and we all started thinking about the hard work of the workers who did that carving. Suddenly we saw Shikha didi weeping in a corner catching the attention of everyone. Everyone was so concerned to find out what was causing Shikha didi to weep. Manish sir and Arun sir instructed students to bring some water for her and went to Shikha didi worrying that there might be some problem with her health. Not only the teachers but also the students there reflected their concern by asking what was wrong with her.

It turned out that the reason for her weeping was that somebody had stolen her shoes. The situation was so strange and funny that everybody was going to the corners to giggle. Later on, Neeraj Bhai came and made her laugh by saying “I will steal more expensive shoes for you”. This incident offered many of us to volunteer help, but this was nothing but the free advice that everybody gives in India.

After the tiring day of long travelling we had our dinner and assembled in the lawn where Manish sir and Arun sir eloquently described us the history of Ahmedabad. Sir asked about the day’s report and looked at our notes where he found that some of the children are just pretending to be serious. Then we all moved towards our rooms for sleeping, with some fun jokes, and dance but the careless students were made to copy the notes and learn about that places visited on that day. We all packed our minds with the memorable dreams of the places visited. Some of the students were even flying kites in their dreams as on the next day they were planned to visit the famous kite festival of Gujarat. This day was even more memorable as Mr. Narendra Modi was to be the chief Guest.

Some students while pretending to sleep had some had plotted to make moustaches by black sketch on the rest of the students who had taken a long jump in their dreams. Next day the morning became as funny as it was supposed to be and made all of us to preserve this experience as a golden memory of our life.

We got into the bus at 6:30 and moved toward the place where Kite festival was to be inaugurated. Contestants from 32 countries took part in this kite festival. At 8:30 chief minister ‘Narendra Modi’ was supposed to come but as we all know he came at 9:30 and gave the speech. We were unable to understand it as it was in Guajarati but some of our students were able to understand a bit of that and were trying to explain it to their friends.
 After that we went to science city, which was the major attraction of the tour. It was the most amazing place that we visited on our tour.

It was a wonderful experience for us. The atmosphere of science city was like space centre. Photographs of various astronauts were hung there. We got a chance to see a 3D movie which was based on dinosaurs’. It seemed like dinosaur will come out and attack us. Abhishek Sharma was so scared that he started screaming. A child from some other school got so scared that he vomited on Abhishek Maurya.

On 13 of Jan. we started our trip by visiting J.G. International school. Principal Brinda Ghosh with her husband Subasish Ghosh welcomed our group.
They both were very kind and were treating us as their own children. She offered us lunch but because of our busy scheduled we were unable to have it with her. We visited the entire school and our children interacted with the children of that school. When our students interacted with the students of that school some of them really came to know about where they stand in front of others and decided to work hard to become better than those students.
 

We also visited to a dinosaur’s park where we saw different species of their family with lots of birds.

There we learnt about the different periods of Dinosaur

1. Triassic Period
   
2. Jurassic Period
   
3. Cretaceous Period.
   
4. Late Cretaceous Period.
   

 

We requested Manish sir for shopping as it was our last day and we were leaving for Dehradun on the next day. After a long request to many people we got 45 minutes for our shopping at lal market. It was a big market and we went for shopping in groups under the supervision of our group teachers. Six of us were in the group of Manish Sir. We had a very nice time in the market although it was a usual market like here in Dehradun. We bought key rings, wallet and lots of small things to gift it to our friends and family members. Also we ate Dhokla and Pastry. After doing shopping we went back to ‘Chiloda’ where we were staying.

It was our last night at Ahmedabad. We did our packing and after our dinner we sat together and had a quiz on Ahmedabad. After which we went to our beds dreaming about dinosaurs, lions, 3D movie and the experience we had in these 15 days. At night we all did masti, with lots of fun.

Next morning we were to catch our train at 9 AM. We all got up early and got ready by 7AM. After proposing the vote of thanks and presenting the gift we all said good bye to all the army personnel. All the children were very upset as it was the end of an amazing and educative part of their lifes but the feeling that they would soon meet their families comforted them. Three army officers accompanied us till the railway station and left only after our train started moving.

Thanks to all the Donors who made this Trip possible for us.