The committee of members to assess the credibiltiy of the institution for affiliation came around to the college on Friday, at about 10.00a.m. Departments were kept on their toes as they went around inspecting and reviewing the facilites available here. The previous two days had been spent by Ms. Kalpana and me in feeding in the facts after obtaining them from the departments, office, the PWD and faculty and turning out innumerable pages of printouts and spiral binding and edge-taping. Dhanasekar and Brindha, were of immense help in this endeavour. Ah, tiring though it was, the feedback has been good and encouraging. The results are formally expected shortly.

The NCC State Camp for kids was organised and we had about 400 kids from all over the state gathered here. On Friday, I was asked to talk to them about Child labour. It was refreshing to see the hope of young minds shining through their eyes. It was a ppt and with the pictures I amnaged to keep most nodding their heads ( was it in sleep or was it in agreement?) It was a little difficult, as I had do the Code-switching trick and the 'tholilalargal' ( I had to say this word throughout the talk) kept tripping on my tongue. But I think, I managed to convince them about the need to do something in their own small way.

Oh...oh..oh...good news for the hostelers, especially the girls, is that they now have solar heated water in the hostel, and, oh, girls must be absolutely delirious with happiness. In fact, this was one of the pet peeves of students who came from warmer climes and were not able to accept the chill weather in the mornings for most of 6 months in Salem.
I am once again amazed that where there are proactive leaders at the helm of affairs, bountiful things keep falling in.
Boys , I believe, have a new mess hall, all tiled and airy.

For all those who were day scholars and used the college bus to commute...here's some interesting news. The bus, (buses, if one includes the small, net-windowed, police vehicle lookalike), usually follows the OldBus stand to Vincent to Hasthampatti to Five Roads enroute College. As far as I know, this has been the route. This academic year, the route will be Five Roads to Four Roads to Ramakrishna Park to Hasthampatti to Old Bus Stand to College.

I love the bus ride...it is comfortable and one can listen to Periannan's favourite songs, especially the sad songs he likes playing on Fridays and reach college without having to hang on to the over crowded, bursting at the seams Omalur buses which test one's dexterity in hanging on to the bars or the hands-free Vadivel type acrobatics ( I swear, one of these days, on KPR, (No.19) I will go flying out through his glass pane, cos of his favourite habit of applying the most powerful brakes).