It all started with the potluck dinner at our place on Friday with our 'Shakha' friends (Shakha means branch in Hindi and I am referring to our local branch of HSS - Hindu Swaymsevak Sangh where we go every Sunday evening to do yoga , play games and learn about various aspects of Hindu religion and culture). Yum dinner of Chole Bhature, Medhu Vadas, mango-peach salsa, vegetable Pulao, Raita and Kheer was followed by a really enjoyable session of piano and songs by some very talented friends in the group. Great evening indeed !
On Sunday we joined same group of friends and 'Kishores' (teenagers' group in HSS) for a day camp in Umstead Park. The kids went on a 3 miles long hike, did 'Charcha' (discussion) on various topics such as ways to stop companies to patent what has always been common knowledge in India about benefits and medicinal usage of plants and trees, what can be done to stop cow slaughtering and increase the milk production in India. Kids showed a lot of interest and participation. After Pizza lunch and some games Anurag gave them 'Baudhik' (a talk ) on the life of Swami Vivekananda. A few Kishores were going to go to a sleepover afterwards and somehow everyone in the group got invited for this dinner. An impromptu plan turned out to be a feast and fun with a game of table tennis, piano, singing, 'antyakshari' and dumb-charades. Neev started 'antyakshari' by shyly singing Vivekananda song in his honey voice and got a round of applause by everyone. My sweet child hid his face but I could tell that he thoroughly enjoyed the attention.
All in all a great long weekend of some good discussion and fun with a great bunch of people !!
On Sunday we joined same group of friends and 'Kishores' (teenagers' group in HSS) for a day camp in Umstead Park. The kids went on a 3 miles long hike, did 'Charcha' (discussion) on various topics such as ways to stop companies to patent what has always been common knowledge in India about benefits and medicinal usage of plants and trees, what can be done to stop cow slaughtering and increase the milk production in India. Kids showed a lot of interest and participation. After Pizza lunch and some games Anurag gave them 'Baudhik' (a talk ) on the life of Swami Vivekananda. A few Kishores were going to go to a sleepover afterwards and somehow everyone in the group got invited for this dinner. An impromptu plan turned out to be a feast and fun with a game of table tennis, piano, singing, 'antyakshari' and dumb-charades. Neev started 'antyakshari' by shyly singing Vivekananda song in his honey voice and got a round of applause by everyone. My sweet child hid his face but I could tell that he thoroughly enjoyed the attention.
All in all a great long weekend of some good discussion and fun with a great bunch of people !!
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