Journal 2.0: En route Kodaikanal.

Time period: 11 hours (9 am to 10 pm)

             A team of 31 people we were (28 students and 3 teachers), perched on the seats of our school bus for a solid 7 hours with enough amount of chatter, music, food, laughter and basically togetherness.

           We reached a pink dorm and had hardly 10 minutes to get into our western formals (theme for today) for the opening ceremony. After hurrying ourselves up in a span of 15 mins, we were finally good to go. We reached the Kodaikanal International Business School and headed to the auditorium.

The principals, vice chairs and secretary generals shared crisp and motivative speeches and then I learned a bit more about IIMUN (Indian International Model United Nations- one of the India's leading brand in education conference management having organized the Asia's Largest Youth Conference in Mumbai amongst many other conferences) through the video and presentation. 

              Afterwards was the announcement of who our chair is going to be. Apparently, Mr. Vignesh, was the chair for the UNCSW (United Nations Commision On The Status of Women) committee; the committee that I was in. He looked way too chilled out (something that I didn't expect one bit, and I found that out with his hairstyle firstly and then the level of informality in his talk). Happy, I walked out at the end of it and began interacting with the rest of the delegates.

            Next in line was the DJ party awaiting us and vice versa! I danced like I was so full of beans and the entire throng was on fire! It was the first ever time like this with the best teachers and seniors. The TIPS team formed a huge circle and they pushed each one of us in seperately to display our own, weird dance move (I did the shuffle and i was happy to hear everyone roar for it).
           Dinner break arrived. The food was pretty decent. I always love networking with people and so I did just that. Later, a lot of time went in concocting for the big day!

            Together (our school people) we watched the picturesque view amidst the cold-yet-pleasant weather (lights beautifully dotting the entire city!) and got group pictures clicked. On our way back, we heard that they had shifted us to a much better place to stay in: cute cottages and a lot of greenary.




Duration: 5 hours