New Market, Day 1

Hola people!

Took PFP into the field today and it was a friggin' wonderful experience!Since I'm hell-bent on rambling and writing this as a non-report, please bear with me! Or, just skip to the important bits! :op

Anirban, Satish and me met at New Market around 8:30 (sorry Anirban for keeping ya waiting!) and began by discussing our playplan. We decided to introduce ourselves and tell the bacchas (not kids :op) that we would be coming back on a particular day.

Unfortunately it was drizzling so there was NO one around! So we went onto the New Market terrace ( which is a sexed out place!) and lolled around there. Then, as there was still no one playing, around a quarter past 9 we walked to Anirban's school. Obviously the gates were locked but Mr. A felt really nostalgic and desperately wanted to enter his school. In fact, he wanted to get in so bad, that he suggested breaking in. After some protesting from my side, we entered the building adjacent to the school ( a firestation FULL of policemen) and climbed over the wall. When the security caught us, we claimed that we were just VERY loyal ex-students. heh. This had to be a first; breaking into a school instead of the opposite!

Now the important part... We met a few children and fortunately some of them had danced for my music video so establishing a rapport was easy! We just casually talked for a bit and mentioned that we had a few games ready that we wanted to play with them soon. They were delighted and said, "Kal aao!" (today the turnout was nil coz of the rain). One of them wanted us to get a football so we could play soccer. Thanks to the workshop we knew how to reply to that! :O)


While this was happening we were also constantly dodging bricks being thrown from above by what we can only call the madar-c*** gang, a group of 20+ year olds who punctuated every word with the M phrase (incidentally we have no idea exactly WHY they were doing that....throwing bricks that is). Anirban was optimistic enough to suggest that we include them while playing. I dunno about Satish but I definitely went *ahem*!

Before leaving the place, we exchanged names.....we met 6-7 children but i can only remember a few names....Rohit, Rajesh, Bablu.... They promised to get a large group of children tomorrow. The deal was that if it rained, the 'prograam' would be shifted to the next day. I'm not sure if being so hasty was good, epecially since a lot of us are meeting on Wednesday and would have prolly liked to be included (plus we WILL need AT LEAST 5 volunteers). However, the kids were so enthusiastic that we really couldn't say no. Maybe the three of us can go early tomorrow and tell them that we'll come on Thursday. That way we can not only be slightly more prepared but also inform others.

Signing off now...

YaYness!
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