Thursday, March 27, 2008

Kolkatta Trip Day 4


After hectic trip from kalyani, we reached Future guest house at 11PM that night , very tired and dusted wanted to get a bad night's sleep . But food was waiting for us . Had a good food with a very nice hospitality.Went for sleep as the day was tiring with more than 5 hrs of journey. Next morning we were supposed to pack the show by 6 PM as we had a flight to catch from Kolkatta back to Bangalore at 8 PM.Next morning as i and vidya were ready to leave to Heritage college ,we suddenly found that we had to take more number of answer sheets , that was done and we left to Future at 9.30 from heritage college. On the way a huge traffic jam had already happened, this was a normal feature of Kolkatta. The driver was telling us about this. Suddenly he hit a Sumo and broke the mirror. A friendly fight happened on the road with the other driver asking our cab driver to pay the damages for which our driver agreed. Funny thing was that he never paid the same.We reached Heritage at 11AM and at future Krithika along with Shubha had begun the test. Luckily there was no problem for us in beginning the test at Heritage with all the student volunteers helping us a lot. at 2PM one batch was complete and i was ready with results meanwhile Vidya was managing test for another 150 students. Meanwhile shubha came to Heritage as she was supposed to carry out the next process for the students. It was the first time we met after Shubha's marriage as i had been transferred to Mysore. As me and vidya along with Krithika were supposed to leave for Bangalore , we took leave from Heritage handing over the rest of the process to Shubha . Luckily i had some time to take the snaps of the college. I reached future college at 5.10 PM , funny thing was still i forgot to buy sweets as there was no sweet shops on the way . So thought of taking sweets on the way to Airport. As soon as we reached future we had some 14 students to be interviewed ,which i finished within 20 minutes as it was very easy for me to reject as they were not even answering some simple basic questions.So got ready to leave to Bangalore as Krithika was busy in announcing the results, Finally took some snaps at the guest house and left to airport in the car .On our way back to airport, it was huge huge traffic , we had lost all hopes of reaching airport on time. With no tickets in our and and stuck in jam there was no chance for all 3 of us to buy sweets. The Indian airlines help desk was also not working as krithika tried to get the flight updates.The driver was driving very horribly ,his duty was to take us to the airport by 7.30 PM. He avoided at leas 10-15 accidents by the time he took us to the airport. On the way we cursed ourselves for not shopping in kalyani. Finally reached airport at 7.20 PM. Then all the drama started. Krithika was able to get her ticket and she went to the baggage check in counter to get the boarding pass, meanwhile me and Vidya got all the luggage and went to the counter to get the ticket, then we find that our names were written in the wrong manner, it took 20 minutes for us to get into the airport lounge. After all the drama we were able to check in our baggage until then there was no announcement of the flight delay . When our security check was going on we were informed about the flight delay . At that time we were not supposed to go out. so final chance of getting some Bengali sweets was lost. Jumped on to the flight at 8.15 PM it was a surprise waiting for all 3 of us . we were travelling in business class . All 3 of us had a good flight back to home with some snaps on board. I was able to take the videos also . Finally reached Bangalore at 11PM . Krithika went in one cab back home and i was accompanying Vidya to her home and i reached our Boy's house at 12AM. That was the end of my kolkatta trip . It was very sad for me that i was not able to get some gifts and sweets for my boys and to my home. It was due to sudden change in plan. But it was a very nice experience for me as i was in eastern part of India for the first time and got to meet some good people. I am always looking for such trips in future.I am very sorry for not mentioning the Hyderabad & Chennai trip. I will be having one more post for it in future .

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