The Year in Review, Volume 1

Well, class 11 ends, and with it, so does Mundane Musings. On the 22nd, as the new academic year begins, this blog will enter its new Avatar as "Blah!

Class 11, for serious lack of a better word, rocked. It was amazing fun, and exceedingly challenging. Well, it was amazingly fun because it was exceedingly challenging, actually. But thats just if you are a competition driven nut job like me.

Well, without further ado, the year in review.

April: We join class 11, fresh from board exams. What happens for the whole month? Precisely nothing, it was a major waste. Even the school work we did was all for nothing, as we would be repeating it again in July.
Encounter with Vaibhav Saighal, a man who much influenced my life for class 11. He told me to pretend not to be arrogant, and be a weasel like him, otherwise I'd never be sucessful. Made me decide to be exactly the opposite.

I hope he's damn sucessful in life. Believe me, I'm going to find out.

May: Summer Holidays begin. This was a very very boring month. It was also a very hot month. There were rehearsals for this awful DD show called something-or-the-other-that-I've-forgotten, conducted by a not so nice teacher.

June: Me, and the usual suspects went for Idiscoveri camp. We all took trekking,(minus Vidushi), and had a blast, in our avatar as the Dheet Khacchar's(Stubborn Mules). Several notable and inspirational phrases came out of the camp, as well as a new found fondness for singing very bad Govinda songs, which lasted for half the year.
Also met such people at camp as Shakey and Chayan, the two actually-shorter-than-I-am lovelorn misfits from Springdales.

JulySchool reopens. New Admissions join.
As I have the experience, here is what it is like to be a new admission entering DPS RKP for the first time.

You get off the bus/car in an all white uniform, to see a sea of white on white marching up to a comparably small gate. As you enter, you get swept along in a tide, you can't go back, you can't rush foward, its all encompassing. You haven't learnt how to navigate a crowd yet, so you're getting pushed around every so often. Soon you reach F Block, and now the trouble begins. You don't know where the hell to go. Luckily, if you were in 11th when this happened, there were about 500 others in the same boat to help you along.

Organised Talent Hunt Quiz for the Newadmins, where Akash was unearthed.
Later in the month, we went for our first quiz of the year. The Columban Open. This was where we had to prove ourselves, so that we could stake our claim to the quiz team for the year. We did. We came second in the closest quiz of the year.

AugustAmazing month. All sorts of competitions, and great fun in general. A very rainy monsoon added to the general mirth of the situation. Took to singing "It is such lovely weather/we will have fun together" on a regular basis.

SeptemberInsanely busy month. Lets start. First, the exceedinly stupid first term examinations, that didn't even count for us. I still got 82 in them. Then, happy birthday. Then, The Asimo Science Quiz, where me and PC tasted first place after a long long long time.
Oh, and we also won 1 lakh for the school, and a trip to thailand, to boot. Yay!
Along with that, several other competitions, and a load of fun at school.

End of Volume 1.