Best days gone through

JAN 1 2014

                New year dawned with a cool breeze and drizzle in Chennai. My facebook wall was flooded with new year wishes and my mobile phone had been constantly ringing with whatsapp wishes. Thanks to all the kind hearted ones. Great mood has been set to welcome 2014. All the hype and hulla bulla created by the TV, media and friends _all settled down in the evening. I was quietly ruminating over the gone 2013. Not bad, 2013 has been good to me. It gave me some wonderful friends, lovely experiences and happy memories.

               

                 2013 was the year in which my daughter Aruna was selected for the German Exchange Program in her school. She started learning German language from the month of January. The weekend course continued for four months. For a while I have been telling her to learn a foreign language, which she had been ignoring. Now by God's grace, she began learning German. And by the end of the Academic year, around the last week of April, she flew to Germany and came back in May first week.

Click here to see what she has to say about her trip.

               The program is such as our children go there and experience the day to day life and culture of the Germans and their exchange partners come here and live and learn our culture. It is interesting,isn't it? The tour was set in October. The German teacher was the brain behind the program called for all the  parents and made it clear to us that it was joint experience. It was with parents' co-operation, she could make  their visit a success. So we had regular meetings and planned about how to make things work out. All the enthusiastic parents became my friends.I became very happy since I always loved company.

                    The day came...the beautiful, lovely girl called Lena came to our home..She was such a darling. We enjoyed her presence each and every second. Days flew like anything. It was like the visit came to an end within the blink of an eye. My elder daughter Neeraja became more attached to her than Aruna. She taught some bollywood dance moves to Lena which she loved very much. I couldn't control myself on the day when she left, the whole family was in tears. I don't know whether God will grace us with an opportunity to meet her again! However I will never forget her.

             Two more happy incidents were when I met my friends. I went to Salem to meet the most adorable, lovely,wonderful, and beautiful friend. Mahes, and on my birthday Thendral, who is double times what I said of Mahes, surprised me with her visit on my birthday. On these two occasions, I was beaming with joy  the whole time.

         I have always had an ambition to become a journalist. So, one day, just like that, I wrote an article for Deccan Chronicle and it had gotten published!

Oh my goodness! I got a lot of encouragement about this and one more good thing- I started blogging. So, thank you 2013  for offering me such wonderful experiences, and one word, 2014, "be as good as our predecessor. If you are still more better and generous providing with more interesting things to do in my life, then it is no problem :P"