Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Tsunami Unleashed

It was in the december of 2004, when Tsunami struck India and parts of Tamilnadu was affected.. It was supposed to be the worst nightmare for the people there.. We as Aid-India's volunteers were asked to jump into action.

So we planned to spend the forthcoming Pongal holidays in a useful way. Myself and Aswin (a very good friend of mine) planned to go in bike, just for the sake of fun n thrill and as well as help the people there at the same time. Soon darkness fell, since we started late and even we felt tired driving all the way to cudaloor. We had to take a de-tour and stop at a lovely place called kuuvathoor, 38kms off mahabalipuram. We spent the night there, and had loads of fun with our fellow colleagues. Soon the next morning we had to get back to business..

There's no sort of basic amenities in that place and so we had to fetch water, take bath ofcourse and start to another place, but this time in a van. So i left my bike there. And the bottomline is i happened to drive the van for sometime. Thanks to the driver. And then when night fell we all went to the roof-top of the van and travelled on the scenic ECR road... I could never forget all those moments in my life.

We spent few days there distributing rice, some of us learnt how to make tents and the others distributed medicines. Finally we had to get back home because the pongal holidays came to an end and so back to college. So we ended our trip, with a happy heart that the holidays were spent usefully.

When i look back now, the memories seem to be still fresh in my mind.