The Great Outing (Trip to Anandadhama) Day 1 - Part Two

We had an OBL (Out Bound Learning) and there were our instructors for the day Krishna and Ponnama. They said us to have Lunch, then get ready and assemble at 2.45 PM to start the Training. We guys left to the rooms some people went to Tents, some to Log house and some to Villas. I and another two friends took a log house and it was really good. Then we went to the dining room and had our lunch. The food was not so great but was of OK type. Then we had the first activity it was forming a square with the rope given two you with completely blindfolded team members. Our team was named fruits and there were some 13 members and the other team was names ice creams they too had 13 members. We started the activity and it was really tough when we were holding it, it was in the shape of circle somehow we managed to keep it down as a square with one side skewed and it was kind of great achievement I thought. [Picture Srikanth(on right) giving feed back to the instructors Ponnamma and Nikunj third fellow from right and there is Krishna at the extreme left.]

Then we went on to the next activity which was Tarzan Swing. There was a stand above ten feet height from the ground and there was a rope given and you have to jump from the stand and reach as much as ground as you can. They split the distance into three areas the least had 5000 points, the most had 20,000 points and the area in between had 10,000 points. They asked us to write how much we can cover. Initially I wrote 10,000 limit. They gave chance to alter our targets at the last time. I said I will cross the 15,000 mark which is the boundary line of 10,000 and 20,000 area and I covered the same. The fellow in the picture (Vijay) is the only one who reached the 20,000 mark.

Then we moved to the next activity, it was Raft Making. We went to the cauvery river bank. They split us into three teams Crocodiles, Sharks and Pirates. We were the Sharks and Ragavendra was our team’s Leader. We had some expertise in our team a guy who was good at knots (Srikanth Eswaran). Ragavendra led our team and we did make a raft with two tubes at the bottom and few bamboos placed on the top of it and we did make it in time. The total time for this activity was 45 minutes you have to build the raft, make three rides in the river then carry it back to the place where you started and dismantle it. We did make the rat fast, three fellows are supposed to ride it. On the first round Sudhakar, Vijay and Ponnanna went for it. Because of uneven weight distribution the raft toppled. They got on it again and after some time the same happened. Our team toppled twice and by the time they steadied themselves the Crocodiles team finished their first ride. Then our guys did really well. They finished the ride successfully and came back. For the second ride, Ragavendra, Nagarjuna and I were on the raft and this time we had the balance quite right and we made it fast and reached back to the river bank. Then for the third ride, I along with Sudhakar and Ponnanna decided to take a go and we did cover it faster then the second ride. We finished off second and the crocodiles won it and there was only two minutes difference between both the teams. We did really achieve something after falling twice coming second is not so easy isn’t it?? (picture 1 Sudhakar, ponnanna and Vijay from Left to Rightand picture2 Raghavendra, myself and Nagarjuna Reddy from Right to Left)

Then we went back and I had a shower and refreshed myself. We had campfire @ 7 PM and then there was quiz @ the campfire and Srikanth was the quiz master. It was a brand identity quiz. Our team was team four and there were totally five teams with 5 members in each team. In our team, it was me, Nagarjuna Reddy, Dhanasekara Pandian, Vijay and Praveen. I personally found it difficult and so did our team. We started at zero points and we were to only team to finish with the same points they started.

Then we had dinner @ 8.30 PM. After that the organizer at the resort Santhosh said we can have a night trekking if we are interested and we agreed to it immediately. Right after the dinner we started the night trekking or I should call it night walking and we went into the forest and walked for some one and half hours and came back to room and fell down for sleep. They said that there will be a morning trekking at 6.45 AM and those who are interested should assemble near the dinning hall @ 6.30 AM next morning. We decided to go for that and after reaching home we kept alarm at 5.15 AM next morning and felt asleep. So we fell on the beds and there was AC in our room we tried to switch it on then we realized it was not an Air Cooler and was a SG (Sound Generator). We switched it off and said good night to each other and went into the sleepy world. [Picture Santhosh on extreme right telling Nikunj, Prakash, Praveen, Praveen (Crocodile Hunter and Dhanasekar about the night trekking.)]

Will say about the activities that happened on the next days activity in my next post. And will post it as soon as possible.