Yes... mighty weird combination i know.. Some of us might even call it recipie for disaster... which it wasn't (thankfully) cause i've just experienced my first expo and it was truly exhilirating.
Our stall topic was oral cancer and it was organized by "CanStop" and it was sponsored by NXg... Quite a good amount of fun really.
My day starts at 5:20... Please guys,i'm totally serious... (I fell out of bed but lets just leave it at that).. The previous evening was spent in a total frenzy getting everything together.. (Me and my frnd ashwini were the strings holding our group together,not to brag, but we did an amazing job)
I somehow grope my way around and get dressed and i'm at school by 8:05.. We start and reach and we arrange our stall and put up our charts...very clumsily might i add cause there was sticky tape and gum flying around (not conventional fevistick,we were using fevicol) and miraculously(i think thts how its spelt)..we get everything into place with all four limbs intact.
"Why don't you people use a slogan" Said my biology teacher who was accompanying us. "Leave the smoking to cars and factories" I snorted sarcastically.
Everyone turns to stare at me.
I look up.
"What?"
But i don't get a reply...they're already putting that up on a poster!
Our first half of the day goes on pretty uneventful.. Us explaining basically everything in our chart... Some goofy guy picking up my laser torch and playing with it.... Thats when all the participants get called to hear a short speech..
It was amazing to hear them because the CanStop organization itself was founded by 4 survivours of cancer.. I think i was pretty lucky to hear them talk.
There was a board called ray of hope draped in a white cloth. "See that board over there?" The chief doctor (srry guys,forgot her name) points out. We all immediately turn and stare at it. "We are going to bless all those people out there who are already suffering from cancer and pray for their speedy recovery. If you want to do it for a friend,family member or just about anybody, step forward" She told us.
We lined up and i put my hand splat in the tray with dark green paint and Archana (my other really really clsoe frnd) chose orange. We stood by each other as a junior snapped a pic of us grinning. "Bosom buddies huh" The chief doctor grinned.
We grinned right back at her
Then the (un)eventful lunch break... We were served noodles(not the maggi kind) and gobi manchurian.. I have never eaten something greasier or sicker in my entire life... I'm just lucky all the food didn't come out in the wrong direction!! And what basically sucked is that i left swetha, ashwini and archana at the stall but then i called swetha down and we sat and ate together. Apparently, when i was gone, every single person who came to our stall asked where the author of the poem was ! (we put up one of ma poems in a charT)
I missed my moments of glory for greasy noodles and overcooked and still greasier gobi!! AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Its the quiz competetion after that... The stall crowd immediately stops completely leaving the lot of us to sit around bored like dopesters and crackstars. My other friend Swetha took my phone and began listening to the radio on it. Archana was sitting by me incessantly singing "Jesus take the wheel". Ashwini was sitting in a chair outside our stall, practically asleep and theres me. Sitting in between Ashwini and Archana, painting my nails with sparkly stars in lilac and hot pink.
I took Swetha's camera (it was only payback since she kind of officially flicked my phone, apparently the radio station she was listening to was playing smokin hot songs) and handed it straight to Ashwini and for a change, i got in front of the camera instead of behind it. Goofing off, pretending i was the next big supermodel.
Then the quiz gets over... and to my surprise.. As i'm sitting there almost fully asleep... My friend Divya who i haven't seen in a bloody long time pops up!
I would've hugged her if i wasn't in such a hazy state but that just brought me straight back up to life. We all talked for 15 minutes... And she wrote us a comment when she hadn't even heard our explanation. Highlighted her name over and over (in case somebody needs to know the list of eminent personalities who blessed our stall with their presence :P )
And that was the end... The pack up... We ripped everything down, after a good deal of confusion of what belonged to who, we finally packed up.. got our belongings..(now including a freebie tshirt) and about 9 phone calls later, a juggling act, artfully balancing all our charts and what not in our hands, 2 glasses of an extremely sour "natural" drink, a balancing act by the water cooler again, 20 minutes on the kiddy swing set later... We were back home.
Yeah all in all, our day sucked, we didn't even win best stall award but to be honest, we didn't care a damn about that. All we cared about is that when we left school, we looked up to the sky to see a silver lining(damn beautiful!) and when we left... Well lets just say we had an awesome time anyway :)
