Its a tradition of bioinformatics centre that we organise a small get together on teacher's day... and its the MSc 1 who do the organising... and so on 1st the MSc 2 CR came to me and told me i had to do all this organising and stuff....me??? me??? why??? well i announced in my class that we had to this program and that it was a class activity and those who want to volunteer can please do so....
Nobody had much of an interest...(read: not one of em volunteered man not one of em...) So i decided that may be i'll do what i can. Me and the girl CR....CRni as shes called...Shraddha, were the only one, it seems, who were interested.... me a bit under pressure.... anyways....
So what are the things that need to be done:
Send invites to all profs....get their email Ids first...30 of em...??? yeah... will all come??? no. how many will turn up? generally 4-5 come up. Great... BTW 5th sep is not a hol and we had lectures.... so when will we hold the do??? so go to Director and ask for a free time slot..."We will not, in any condition, compromise on lectures and course work"....categoric!!!
all this was taking place on 2nd....3rd was ganesh chaturthi...hol.... and bascically on 2nd not much work was done since only me and CRni were on it....4th sep.... now i started feeling the heat majorly, nothing concrete was decided or done..... what are we going to do in the get together???
first....saraswati puja....some small program.... singing by girls (Anasuya and Sonal did a good job), Poem reciting... the poem was written by Divya and it was alo excellent.... then a bit of student teacher interaction...we asked Director mam to share her experiences with her profs and to tell her experiences with former students....
Food: Decide menu.... how much to buy, how much to serve and when to place orders....
We decided on veg pattis, with wafers, sweet(kaju katl/ri) and tea....
The orders were given by me and CRni....though pranav was put on the job, CRni handeled it...
Now gifts....1 big gift for the dept. we bought a Ganpati wall hanging after a lot of indescision it was a coin toss which clinched the gift.... and what to give to individual teachers...it should be personalised and not readymade....makes things complicated......on 4th night people in the class started waking up to the fact that we needed help and thankfully rose to the occasion....in a short while we had made individual bookmarks for teachers....Dhiraj did a FANTASTIC job here.....damn good...he's a natural with colours....
For compering Divya CRni and Satpreet came forward and did what was required.... Anasuya, Daksha, Pradnya and Pranav helped in loads of ways.... I did the running around....filling up of gaps....coordinating people on what to do...and doing a lot of it myself!!!
5th sep, D day....6 hours lecture!!! then...on the terrace...i got 3 jhaadus and we cleaned the terrace... i also got my clean bedsheet... to be used as a table cloth for keeping the Saraswati murti.... the girls made a rangoli, fantstic job they did.... 7 profs came, 6 from non teaching staff and 1 guest who is from vietnam doing her project with Director mam, seniors and us...the terrace was pretty filled...the function went without a hitch....no probs whatsoever, except the hungry seniors....we asked the Director mam to cut a cake.... people had their fill, then went.... later the seniors also went back.... We stayed back in the terrace, had loads of fun and later cleared up and we also left....
All in all it was a good program, seniors also appreciated it and i was happy in the end....
My and CRnis role in it was as a organiser, planner, executer and also as a coordinator. and so all in all it was a pretty good experience, tiring but rewarding and though it was full of tension it was also loads of fun!!!
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