Visit to Dapoli orphanage(Pune)

It was a beautifull sunday all set to try new things and relax.Saturday was a bit hectic with Oracle 9i certification scheduled and as usual i didnt study, went to try my luck.Luckily i passed with flying color according to me(Just passed got 73%, 3 more than the pass percent).I Started with an enthusiastic morning playing sqaush my new love.It was all going well suddenly i checked my bag to find my second love Music and to my surprise my I touch was not there in my bag. I guess it fell somewhere , i was sad but i didnt want to miss the visit to orphanage due to lost I touch as it was already 11:00am till that time i reported the lost item at all places possible in the club house and left it to god to take care of it.
I started for Dapoli in Pune to explore and to play with unknown people, I just forgot to mention that my project mates had cancelled the quaterly project party and contributed the money toward enjoyment,fun and lunch with the so called underpriveleged children.I rode on my bike to the place through sangvi and somehow reached the place by asking multiple auto drivers.
When i reached the place my mates had already arrived and i felt bad as i was not able to see the place where they lived.My mates told 36 children lived in 2 small rooms of around 400 sq feet in total.Few thoughts came to mind as i was living in 1500sq feet of an appartment with 4 people having all amenties.We took the children to a garden where we could spend soem quality time with them and play games.
I wanted to spend good time and have fun with them not with a feeling that they are underpriveleged and a good few hrs would make them happy.According to me many might have done like that and they would feel as if someone is doing a favour to them.I wanted to be one of them to laugh with them, to play games with them and share whatever i could with them.
We started with few Games like passing the parcel, few other games which tried to involve all of them and us too.Many a times while playing i had to tell and convince the children that "Mere sath khelo ge na" and someone would say yes , some would not react at all.The real feeling of oneness came when we formed a chain holding hands for a game, i felt really good that time.( dont know why?).I didnt like many of my team mates behaviour as they didnt try to mingle at few times and were involved in some so called chit chattering with Mangers and Senior managers.I wanted to shake few of those but its thier call i guess, i went back again to the happy mood and just fell in love with all of them.
I also wanted to share knowledge and teach few children to take pics, not just clicking it but with zooming and other few functionalities.They loved doing it and i loved they doing it :) .We did all did crazy stuff and taking pics in all wierdest of positions.Finally it was around half past two in the noon and was tired but happy.We got food and ate with them, Have to mention my favourite Gulab Jamun was also there in the menu(Thanks to Amol for that) folowed by a round of Ice cream.
Finally time had come to leave and return to our daily routine.In the mean time few children told "bhaiya mujhe ghar tak chod doge tumhari bike pe?" I thought seniore didnt like the idea as it might be a risk but i didnt find and few of us took double and triple's on bike.The children were so happy sitting on the bike and overtaking others. I guess the feeling is better and more satiusfying than the first ride with your Girl friend( I guess so :) ).So slowly we parted with lots of good memories and resolution's which i am keeping with myself.


I would upload few pics soon!Thanks to all my office mates (Amol,Venki,sarath,jeyshree,hemanth,rahul,divya,yash,kalpesh and all of them)for letting us explore the other side of life which we forget so easily!