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Merry Christmas

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas.

Today (23rd Dec,2009) we had a memorable christmas party.

Along with office-colleagues, I went to the mobile creche  at niyati groups project in tikare nagar.
This is on the way towards vishrantwadi.

There was this huge housing project and the creche was on ground floor of 4th building.
Thanks to the builders and the volunteers for setting up this facility.

Surprisingly the place was well decorated,  had lots of sunlight and of course lots of kids.
The entrance had a very cute paintaing of "bal hanuman".
Many cute looking paintaings were hung on the walls of the room.
The pillars were decorated with ribbons and balloons.
The mud-crafts done by some kids was nicely put up in one corner of the room.

Two parallel metal beams were placed at a little height above ground alongside one wall.
These were used to hold beds for very small kids who were happily asleep amid all this noise.
I didnt check out the whole room, but instead just kept moving around the entrance area.

The lady-in charge explained the day to day activities and it surely sounded good.
many of my friends were non-marathi so we requested the lady to talk in hindi.
She did a good job although she put a disclaimer about her fluency.

The puppet show organisers were busy connecting the dvd player.
and saw that there were no 3-way pins. These woman were using tapes to hold the wires in place.
after some trials, they were able to start the player.
After observing their failed attempts, tried to help them buy holding the wires in place.
But got frieghtened when i suddenly heard the click noise of the button, supposing it to
be a spark.

All the kids were made to sit in recatangle.
These kids were following all the instructions given by the organisers.

Finally it was time for the show.
And what a show it was!
The kids were behaving very well. I don't recall so many kids concentrating so hard on the show.

There was a song, story and another round of story, song session.

There was a hit marathi kiddo song played followed by the traditional crow-fox  friendship story .
This was followed by the story of birth of Jesus.
A typical bollywood song made all the kid to dance.

Then the chief lady in-charge came in and did side-talk with us.
We were introduced to them in between the show.

By the end of show, there were Christmas songs, jingles and a cool Santa did arrive
towards the end.  Santa danced with everyone, including us.
We never thought about santa. so seeing him was a pleasant surprise.

We did make the mistake of giving balloons to the kids. Suddenly all the kids started popping
the balloons. The kids started moving around and we thought many of them might get hurt.
But the teachers were able to calm down the kids.
We handed over the sweets to kids and that was the end of the visit.

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