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My Summer vacation of 2017

My Summer vacation of 2017 When I gave that last Geography paper and went home I felt excited and sad at the same time because I was leaving my school. I walked back with a water bottle (still full) , a question paper , a torn and old pencil case and some great memories. Immediately when I got back home I went on a Coke and chips marathon while watching You Tube. The next three or four days we drove to Puttaparthi , the birthplace of Sai Baba. I enjoyed the morning walks , the food and the evening prayers. Also while we were on our way to Prashanti Nilayam (the block of prayer halls and canteens) Dev (my brother) messed up the Google Maps. Then we saw a special entrance which led us directly to Prashanti Nilayam and we were overjoyed to know that there was accommodation inside! God had helped us. Anyway we returned home. Right after three or four days we were on the train to Thrissur! The first week there was great. My cousin had stayed for two days and we had a blast! Even my c

Kindness of Strangers

This happened to me when I was in the 4th grade. We always went to Kerala to stay with my grandparents during summer. I had got a load of holiday homework from my school and I'd carried it all the way to Kerala.  I had to make a model of the solar system for my school project. I had the whole list of materials required for the project in my holiday homework. Me and my grandmother set off in a Auto with a huge bag with the holiday homework in it. My grandmother advised me to hold the bag in my lap, but I turned a deaf ear to her words and I put it in the back of the Auto. We reached the stationary shop and we paid our fare when I realised that I had left the homework in the Auto !! I ran after the auto but it disappeared into the Thrissur traffic. I burst into tears and my grandmother tried to calm me down with a bar of chocolate. We took an auto home.  That night I slept with misery- I dreamt that, I would be the only person who didn't submit the holiday homework.