Visit to Banyan (Dec 2003)

Guys ,This started as a small thought among a group of friends who passed out from Karunya Institute of Technology to help the poor and needy during Christmas Time.
The total collection at that time way back in 2003 was around 2000 Rs and the place of visit was Banyan
http://www.thebanyan.org/ .It was an enriching experience in the home . The team consisted of
1. Geena
2. Dennis
3. Deepthi
4. Binny
5. Sumi
6. Hubert
7. Prasanth Manoj

Sumi , Geena,Deepthihad booked a call Taxi to go to Banyan and when they reached there , they were welcomed by the inmates and the keepers of the house led by Mr. Ashok .They were led to the Hall where the Carols was to be conducted , when they busy decorating the hall , an inmate of the house asked them where and why they came to banyan .She wanted all of their attention and cornered them during the speech , both of them were scared as this was the first time for all of us . The keepers soon helped them and then myself and Binny we reached the place and started dressing up for the Santa Claus we were given a store room to make up .Meanwhile Sumi, Geena , Deepthi and company started the Carol songs and Santa was told to come in when they started Jingle Bells... The best part Santa did not know when Jingle Bells is going to be sung , so he had to hurry up with his costume and had to wait in the store room for nearly 20 mins , when all of a sudden they sang Jingle Bells ..By that time Santa was already snoring .. when he heard Binny come running and knocking the door and waking Santa up .. asking him to come.. !! when santa came out .. guess what happened.. .

One of the house keeper screamed .. seeing Santa..
"Man .. thats not a way to welcome Santa " she got scared .. seeing Santa.. !! thats when for the first time I reliazed what everyone says about me .. that i am scary .. !! Gosh i scared some one.. . !!The deal was to enter dancing and before Santa would start dancing the ballons tied to his walking stick started flying off.. !! Loose knots you see.. !!
Being the first time with the Santa Claus dress , i had to keep a lot of things in mind..
1. Dont let the mask fall
2. Dont let the wig fall
3. Dont let the pant fall ( My god the pant was looooooooooooseeeeee)
4. Dont let the additional belly fall .. U would be provided with an additional belly )
5. Hold the walking stick
6. Hold the ballons
7. Distribute sweets.. so on and so forth..
Keeping all this in mind Santa entered.. thats when Santa got his welcome.. man the people started clapping hands and welcoming santa.. !! Santa forgot about all his precautions and once you see the smiles.. you will start dancing ... so started Santa's dance..Soon lot of the inmates started to dance with Santa .. cos he had all the sweets.. !!! obviously you dont dance you dont get sweets.. !! so the whole hall was filled with songs , dance music and fun .Then started the musical chair competition ... in which Santa lost in the first round itself.. !! cos of his over wieght tummy.. ( both original and add on ) .. but then the winner got a prize .. which was again a Toffy.. !!In the end, when we were about to finish .. there was a inmate who came forward and prayed along with us.. and closed the Carol celebrations..
Time was up when we had to head back home .. with all our memories of Banyan .
Would keep you posted on our visit to PUSH in my next blog.. !!!