Day 1

Due to lack of time I am keeping it in bullets to help me revive memories.

• Woke up at 6:15 and woke up my room mates, managed to freshen up in only 2 bathrooms and 11 people to use them

• Had breakfast among the constant reminders from TFI staff of remaining 10,8,6,4,3 minutes, when I decided bunk the breakfast, go to where they want me to.
• Speeches by Venil and Maureen. Well got to see how to keep a big group quiet.
• Activity by Milind: The ORANGE activity. Personally I found it as a class 2 story classroom where we had to test our minds with imaginative ability and come up with fictitious stories. What do you expect me to say when you ask what do I see when I see an orange? Well smelling and tasting were surely sensible but what were hearing and seeing as something different?No hard feeling here, am just using my blog as the space to just pour out my feelings. 
• We went to community. In the bus we had fun, Shaheen and Alica were there from staff who kept us in some entertainment for some time, then I happened to take Marathi tutorials from Hitesh.
• Reached community. Talked with 2 kids, well spent most time on 1 kid only. Taught him colours, made him draw mickey mouse and discussed various parts of body.
• It was time so came back, observed the silence till then through lunch to the Chanakya 2 classroom.
• Shaheen led the 1 hour large group reflection session. She made us really think in different perspective, be optimistic, patient and asked us to give the other person a chance.
• Then broken in small group, almost same stuff was repeated, the difference being that all people got to speak this time.(Well I found it over moderated from a group discussion point of view)
• Had snacks, changed for opening ceremony and took the bus in a hurry. 
• Prashant led singing in this bus trip. Anagha was another person pretty excited in the singing too.
• Reached opening ceremony, met old fellows and learnt from their experiences.
• Opening ceremony started with speech of Maureen , followed by Shaheen, then I guess Anu Aga,a board member then 2 city directors, then Shashank a Class 4 teacher(2010 fellow) of Sunrise School a talk then his kids gave us info on submarine and their class rules and values followed by quizzes. 
• Then was poetic performances of kids of Shanaya. Well those poems were really good.
• Then there were talks with by one 2010 fellow and another by a 2011 fellow(I guess Meenakshi).
• After that was the best part, we got firki, all of us. I was very excited, we all 2011 2nd insti fellows were on stage in a semi circle.
• We had a good tasty dinner and came back.

Please comment if(and surely I did) I made any mistake or you have anything more worth adding. :)