Introducing YMCA : Part 1
Before I say anything, let me thank Harsha for her Nutshell post, which was the inspiration behind this post as well..
I remember Kenney commenting on that post saying that he knew couple more MAD volunteers because of it.. It barely makes sense to work with so many people and not know them !!
In keeping with times, let me introduce M.A.D @ the YMCA Boys Home…
Fridays first :
Level 1 : With The M.E.C Twins 
Real Names : Eobin & Rubiya
Engineering students apparently.. The disciplinarian, and the good cop.. Perfect Team !!
Eobin does some car designing or some shit apparently.. (Of course not !! I dint ask how ! As if Sibi doesn’t bore me with enough Engg talk for a week ! ) 
Oh, I should tell you, if you don’t like wearing helmets, don’t forget to tell Eobin that.. He’ll have a couple of very interesting stories to tell you.. 
And, good luck with digesting all those statistics you’ll hear.. (Engg students !! *Rolling Eyes*)
Rubiya, meanwhile, is the only volunteer I have who rewrites the logsheet after class to try and improve on her handwriting from two hours ago..
Level 2 – A : With Lil Man And Kaddy
Real Names : Paul and Karthik
One is jobless coz he is taking a year off, and the other is jobless because, well, because.. well, he’s at Cusat.. (You can find him online half the time)(Fact!!)
Again the formidable Good Cop, Loud Cop Combination !!
Paul tries to fool people into thinking he’s a hard metal fan by that fake pasted on beard of his.. 
Then again, if you’ve seen him dance to ‘Appidi Podu Podu’ you’ll never make that mistake again… !! The kids go easy on him as he’s almost their age !! (Have to make him sub @ Pallu one of these days) My best memory of him though is making him sell vegetables at his interview.. He he.. If I remember correctly, the only vegetable for which he knew Malayalam was ‘tomato’ (sigh) He managed to sell around two kilos to the entire gathering I think..
Karthik has amazingly wierd bad days… On such days, if he is taking class, he gets spellings wrong..
Kid : “C-U-P-B-O-A-R-D”
Karthik : “Aaaah, no.. You missed one letter in between !!”
Paul : “Yeah, you did.. (10 second gap) Eh??”
He also has a wierd way of posing for photographs.. Tongue out, eyes rolled up.. You get the point…
Thankfully I managed to fool him while taking this one !!
Both joined up in December, so still in the process of getting to know them.. Let’s just say that some of the stuff I found out so far are not worthy of this blog, trust me.. He he.. Just kidding..
Both make up for one hell of a team though.. It was my pleasure having to invigilate them on several occasions already..
Level 2 – B : With Sh-ibi
The guy who’d always been there.. From my first day at the YMCA..
Inventor of the tradition of “the usual” after-class trips to the shop near MEC.. Can’t count the number of times we were there.. Nor the time that we went there, I felt nauseous and Sibi and Arjun had to help me inside to Vinu’s hostel room… And how the story got changed to me “fainting and falling, and being delirious” the next day at the OBT..
Also the inventor of the concept of the “Usedometer” (Inside YMCA joke, Sibi and Arjun woulda got it)
And, most importantly, the most patient amongst all of us at YMCA.. Which is why he does a real good job with the tenth standard kids..
There you have it.. That’s full house on Fridays..
Watch out for Introducing YMCA : Part 2 next week..
Till then…
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