Us in the US
So many firsts! The first overseas dream trip, first time setting foot on the land of opportunities, “AMERICA”…
New York was just “awesome” with the breathtaking skyscrapers and a sea of people of different colors, shapes and sizes.
From the city of hype – in terms of business, technology and fashion, we took off to the seat of power, WASHINGTON D.C., full of museums, monuments and memorials.
After the hectic sightseeing and a very satisfying shopping spree, it was time for the main destination (also the final) The NASA Space Camp at Huntsville, Alabama. At the airport, we had a few anxious moments when a student could not find his boarding pass. After teachers scrambling here and there looking for the missing boarding pass, what do we find? It is all along in his coat pocket. After a few coughed up extra charges for the overweight baggage, we experienced the novelty of a commuter flight, which our kids described as “Air BMTC bus”.
Transportation – Land, Air and Water. We have done it all during this trip. The SVM children are amazing and enterprising in ways hat apply to all these modes. They can read maps, figure out quicker ways to get to a place and different ways to reach one instead of the usual tried and tested.
Here we felt the pangs of separation from our “wards” as they were taken away by the official counselors of the Space Camp.
We are now looking forward to the “meal times” as those are the only times we get at least to see “our children”.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:48 am
Hi seems you folks are having a whale of a time. Great, thanks to Ms Hema Narayan & the teachers who have really gone out of their way to take care & manage the entire battallion of Kids.