The morning of 11th Dec was a different one. It was the first time I was going to visit our school Annual Athletic meet (better knwn as Annual Sports Day among Gulmohurians). Five years has passed since I completed my 12th but still I found that the eagerness to attend the event was more now, than it was when I was in school. After all its another event where I was getting the opportunity to rejuvenate my old sweet memories...
It was 38th Annual Athletic meet of school. Held at Telco stadium on a fine,sunny Saturday morning from 9am onwards. The meet was attended by Principal, teachers, Guest of honour, all the students and their parents.
As I was sitting in audience, the front view was spectacular- students colourfully dressed to perform various activities. At far off was the four house students sitting in their respective house colour dresses (blue, yellow, green, red). I felt that everythng was same as we had in our days.
Sad to say that I went late so couldnt see the Marchpast. It was followed by oath taking ceremony and then the various activities. First the Primary section performed their colourful dances and activities.And then the performances of higher section students..
I really liked the Tiger dance..still smiling when i writing this..
It was followed by 100 m, 200 m & 400 m relay by senior students.
To me the whole event was wonderfully organised. The pain that our teachers &students took in preparing for it (specially PT teachers) could be well judged by the gracefulness of the activities and the smooth functioning of the event.
There was also events for the parents, teachers and lets not forget we Alumni..:-) We had a speed walking competion. Thanks to school to still treat us as a branch of the Old Big Gulmohur tree.
The Guest of Honour was Mr. Mr. Pradeep Srivastava (MD. ISWP)
Bhagat House bagged the winners prize followed by Raman House as 1st Runners up & Tata House as 2nd Runners up. Bhagat House also took the march past shield.
As all might know that AAG also encourage sports through a rotation shield for the Best Athlete male&female.These shields were bagged by:
Male - Satish Sai & Ashok Mahato
Female - Somya Suman & Amrit Kaur
In the Alumni Event the prizes were as follows-
1st - Nishant
2nd- Avanish
3rd- Abhijit Gope..yupiee..even I got a prize :-) ..
People/Alumni who missed the Athletic Meet made a mistake by not attending it. Really worth watching.. May be next year we expect more Alumni to attend it..
Also well wishes for Christmas and the New Year..May with new year, new opportunities come to you &brings you happiness for the good works that you perform.. Enjoy life..
Congratulations Abhijit...was any consideration given to my thought of having a backward walking competition for the more senior alums..:-)
ReplyDeleteTanmoy
Abhijit I was not aware of the rotation shield....on the school site do we have a place where we list things aag does on a continuous basis...
ReplyDelete@Tanmoy- The event was actually a surprise from school end. We didnt asked them to set any such event for us. So finally we got recognition without demand :-) And sir, we can surely give a thought to your suggestion.
ReplyDeleteBut a quick question- Dont you think we shouldnt try Acrobatic events with seniors.They even dont get a health insurance at such age. ;-) (Just joking. I know you are fit).
@Anonymous- We have these details under Alumni< Events.We will bifurcate it into Donation and events soon(As we donate more and held more events)..