My North-East Trip

Bharapani lake(left) Cherrapunji caves (left)

Recently I visited Northeast. I visited Guwahati, Shillong and Cherrapunji during my diwali vacations. I got thrilled when Mummy said that we were going to visit North east. We went there just during diwali. I had expected that guwahati would be a nice place. We went to guwahati by flight. I have always had a crave of exploring bathrooms in the airport. The rose fragnance of toilet cleaners in the bathroom would attract me towards the bathrooms. Thinking so I explored all the bathrooms of Mumbai airport and was quite impressed with them that I visited it 5 times each. I know it sounds ridiculous and makes you say , 'Yech! disgusting'. But I don't want to lie and this is my exact opinion about airport bathrooms. I planned to visit the guwahati airport bathroom also. So just after stepping down from the flight, I decided to visit the guwahati bathroom but to my horror it was no less than a raliway station bathroom. Our driver was waiting for us outside the airport. We got into the car and went in search of a good hotel. I was surprised to see that the city Guwahati looked even dirtier than our Tarapur. We went to the a hotel near the place, Ganeshguri. From there we went to Balaji temple. It looked as if we were seeing a Gopuram in Shrirangam. It was a really nice temple made of white stone. We went back to hotel and we checked out of it the next day. The next morning we went to kamakhya temple. It was nice but not neat. There was oil all over the floor and goats and birds were given Bali there. Still it was fine. Then we made our way to Shillong. There were so many ghats over there that I stopped the car and vomited thoroughly. After this we went to a hotel in shillong called CITY HUT. The food was so good there that I ate like a wolf and gobbled everything. Then we checked in the hotel and then we went to boating in lake. It was really refreshing to see natural surroundings and at 3 pm also it felt terribly cold. From there we went to a national park where all types of plants and animals were kept. We enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. After that we went again to hotel and I insisted we do some shopping as shillong was famous for bamboo items. We went to a shop nearby and bought many beatiful wood and bamboo items. The shillong trip was the best. Shillong was so cold that there were no fans in the hotel room. Yet we needed thick blankets. The next morning we went to cherrapunji where we first went to Elephant falls. It was fabulous. We also saw seven sister falls and India - Bangladesh border. We then went to the caves. Wow! The caves were just the best and really really adventurous. We hopped and climbed over the mighty stones and there was danger every mode. Everything was slippery because of rain which added to the excitement of the adventure. Afterwards, we went to Shillong view point. We could see the whole view of Shillong city. We had a lunch at a hotel above the bharapani lake. Honestly, its dam beautiful (check out the pics). From there we went to Guwahati and stayed in a 5 star hotel called NAKSHATRA. The time we were staying in Shillong, we came to know that there was a bomb blast in the place we were staying in Guwahati. The next day we went to Guwahati airport and returned to Mumbai and from there to Tarapur. And this was our journey to North-East.

Current happenings

There's really much activity going round here. My confidence exams are nearing and I am planning to work on my own without mom's help. I am trying to plan everything myself and study. But planning is one thing in which I am "zero". So mummy plans out things for me and I try to follow them. But actions speak louder than words. Whenever I try to remove my book and read, I just get bored or my head starts aching. I have started studying on my own and I just read out my weekly unit test marks to amma. Still her hot temper doesn't cool down. I tried to get full marks in almost all the tests thinking that mummy would get impressed. But the another problem is mummy now scolds me because I don't keep my room clean. Oh god, what to do. I think i've started becoming a little unsincere whereas sometimes I feel that i've become responsible. Well all that I can do is studying for whole two months. Just now my annual day came and went. I had not participated dance but instead I took part in group song and I even got a chance to sing with orchestra with A (my friend). It was a fine show. Other than that I got my academic prize as well ad CCA prize also. The dances that were performed during the annual day were fabulous. I got some Enid Blyton books and a Squire's Tales book. I flipped through the pages of the Enid Blyton's books first and I didn't seem to understand anything and the Squire's Tales book's language was none less than the newspaper's language. I was sure that these books would have a comfortable nap for years in my bookshelf( which is currently full). One day, feeling bored, I got hold of the book " The mystery of the pantomime cat" and began to read it. To my surprise, it was perfectly awesome blossom and I could easily understand it. I then decided not to judge any book by the first page. Then I continued with the Adventurous Four serious ( "Shipwrecked" and "Stranded") and "The ragamuffin mystery". When I had finished reading these in few days, soon I began to get bored again so I thought of checking out "Squire's Tales" (the squire, the knight and his lady). I read a few pages and (once again) to my surprise, it was just amazing. I am a kinda "Book Crazy" and 5 books to spend my boring and lonely afternoons is not sufficient. I get severe scoldings from mummy for finishing off the books before vacations and then spending my hols without books and troubling mum saying, I am bored and hence, lazing throughout the day lying on the sofa( spoiling the sofa cover) watching TV continuously from 10 am till mummy comes and snatches the remote from me and watches her favourite shows. i also finished off the Fattest book with me " The Chronicles Of Narnia" ( the bestest book in the whole world and in the top of my favourites list). It consists of seven whole novels in a "BIG FAT" book. It was given to me A mama and A mami. I am so glad I have the book with me!

ME

I am a girl of 12 and a really interesting person. I get angry too often but I am mostly found controlling it. I love singing and playing my guitar. These are my past times and the thing I love the most is timepassing. Actually, I like telling stories and just talking and share my views with people who patiently listen to me and my endless stories. Singing and reading books are my passions. It isn't easy to discover about yourself , you see.....