MAD PUNE……… PARTY!!!!!!
Finally the world gets to know about the great MAD PUNE PARTY….
Well it was almost end of sem for us and our last MAD class was approaching…. Emotions were running high; our precious seniors who had started MAD PUNE were going to leave…..My batchmates had been given their posts and so wanted to do something so end the year with a bang……. The nicest (and most enjoyable) thing would be a PARTY!!!…… and thus was the birth of the MAD PUNE PARTY…
So we met, jotted down our miserly budget, decided the venue (the pool house behind our presidents apartment) and were all set for Sunday to come..
I have to mention here about the music…. We wanted to have some music at the party so that after we were done playing games, the volunteers could dance… One of our volunteers knew this guy who played the guitar… He seemed like a good option… So he enters- long hair, guitar slung over his shoulders and a think accent…. He happened to be the vocalist of some rock band (definitely not something we had in mind)…. He talked bout getting amplifiers and DJ’S and rock music… Eventually we realized that that was not going to work out… The music for the party was an i pod attached to speakers (and not a hot shot vocalist)… And we listened to coldplay and rihanna (and did not head bang to some death metal track)…
Sunday finally came… All of us colour coded according to our orphanages landed at the venue…. Ae started the evening with each orphanage painting their own MAD logo and they had to explain what their logo meant…. the results were outstanding (a note to the MAD core team- after seeing the logos we made that day at the party you are gonna feel like changing the MAD logo)….
And needless to say the girls of Nana Peth won due to the beautifully created one of a kind work of art (i have to be partial here, Nana peth is my orphanage)…. Next was the one of a kind MAD Quiz, where Madhura quizzed the volunteers on MAD Trivia….this was won by Salvation Army Team thanks to their knowledge of everything that is to know bout MAD…
Finally came the emotional part of the evening- saying goodbye to our seniors…… They have been responsible for starting MAD pune.. Today, less than a year from then, we are almost 80 volunteers working in four orphanages and MAD pune has become a great success….
We have wonderful volunteers and even greater kids to teach…. and none of this would have been possible without them… (thank you kichu bhaiya, jaikriti, meetika, yusuf and rasika)…. We don’t know what we will do next year without them but on behalf of all the pune volunteers i promise that we will continue to Make A Difference…… The volunteers were in for a treat when Kichu Bhaiya and Yusuf decided to dance for us…. a few jungle steps and joey moves later all the volunteers decided to join in…….
The party was a great success like the year gone by….. But the work is definitely not done yet…. We might have gone home for exams or for holidays but each volunteer has promised to return next year- with a new vigour, fresh determination and all ready to continue teaching our kids… Learning from them as we teach…. We promise to come back and MAKE A DIFFERENCE…
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