An experience called ILP-TVM

Well, i am writing on this blog after a long time.i think i spoke my mind before leaving to my at ILP,trivandrum.hmmm what can i say about my ILP(oh! it means initial learning program).it is really a twist of my life.It was simply great.I mean it could not have got better than that.Only way it could have been greater is had it been there for few more days.It was for about 32 working days.i stayed there for 42 days i guess. so about 45 days away from home.No problem at all.absoultely NO.

First day of my ILP was like any other "weird day" i would say.i mean new place new people everything about it was so strange and alien to me.Lot of things were going on in my mind then.things settled down slowly.I made many new friends.i hope to continue the same relation with them for rest of my life.if not all atleast with some people.anyways it was great to come across so many people and getting to talk to everybody i mean opportunities were umpteen.I got to talk to people from different parts of INDIA.
J&K,Bihar,UP,TN,MP,Rajasthan,Maharastra,Gujarat,Haryana,Delhi,Punjab,Orissa,west bengal,karnataka.List seems big.i doubt if i missed any state.It was like once in a life time offer.

Now,I really need to talk about one women in the entire ILP.That is MS.Deepa Ballal.too good. just ultimate.as far as my knowledge and wisdom goes any faculty cannot do better than her.i mean she was complete on so many aspects.She is simply amazing.may be life taught her all this, i donno.She is so gud to people.she has a clever of way of putting across any point on earth in the best possible manner.surprisingly,u cannot say no to whatever she asks you to do.You feel that she is absolutely right on earth.she used to facilitate us in life skills and some sessions on communication.I personally feel i enjoyed life skills sessions more than any other session.She was very good to everyone of us.I learnt many new things just because of her.I never used to treat people the way i am expected to,in the sense my mode of communication used to be different.hey! she changed my name to 'bombay'.i have a small story to tell on that.
we played a small game on 2nd day of our ILP.in that each one will have to introduce themselves but in a very funny way.each one have to tell our names along with one food item starting with one's name.for example siva - strawberry like that.then came my turn.before my intro ,there was another guy with same name but with veera attached to siva prasad.so when my name came i introduced my self as B siva prasad.i also said b for bombay so that they do not get confused with other siva prasad - V.then onwards, people in my batch started calling me 'bombay'. i liked it that way somehow.that was the story.
In ILP, batches are given points based on there behaviour and conduct.points will be deducted if anybody's cell rings or if people use mobile in the class room.one day other siva prasad - veera and myself were exchanging our mobile numbers.For that she gave both of us a sweet punishment.you know what it is....we have to give choclates to everyone.initially i thought this is petty.but later i came to know how good that particular idea was.I got some friends just because of that i mean became familiar to all.Later that punishment was given to many people but i am happy that i was the first person to face such a "sweet" punishment.Well that episode was exciting.She made us do lot of activities.I used to bug my friends all the time with what deepa made us do on that day i mean all those activities were so good, we really had a great time participating in all those.

Earlier i used to have some stage fear.not to that great extent but i was bit less confident and used to stumble a lot.But the activities we did in ILP made me more confident atleast in non technical stuff like speaking etc.i was never drawn towards tech stuff in my ILP except during project(ofcourse not much tech was there as a matter of fact).We really had to work hard for our project.that is a different story alltogether.We had sessions on effective communication,technical writing.ILP was simply great .i feel anybody on earth who go through ILP in TVM will have the same exhilarating feeling.hmmm i think this is becoming pretty long.i will write more on my friends and how my hostel life go in my ILP.
to be continued.......

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