Shishukunj

My Experience: USA Trip Shishukunj

Riddhi Singhania, Class X D

Writing about our experiences during this ‘fantabulous’ trip can be quite frustrating for many, but for me…. My mind is overflowing with thoughts and memories…..

This trip to the US was my first international school trip which got me really very excited about it. I knew only a couple of students as my friends, but, well, soon all of us became a family. The journey from India to the US was unexpectedly not at all tiring and we did not even experience jet lag!

Our tour chaperon Rocky was a person who took good care of us, but, at the same time he was the one who we couldn’t stop laughing at, when he took us to see the Harry Potter World at Disney! Talking about Disney, I had a very exhausting day there waiting in the long queues. But now I find that worth it, because those queues gave us time to talk and know each other. Our wish to complete all the rides was wholeheartedly fulfilled by the fast passes at the Universal’s, where we had the time of our lives!

The best thing in our trip was the two days’ tour of the Kennedy Space Centre, where we got the chance to talk to and have lunch with an astronaut, have a shuttle launch experience and discover the littleness of our
planet and the vastness of our exploration. However, the most fun-filled were the hours at the cocoa beach. It was not only the waves, but drying ourselves in the bus fumes was the most memorable part.

We had OH MY GOD tours of the dream universities MIT and Harvard by the students studying there, which literally made us feel we were studying there. And the heavenly falls of Niagara got us many pics to make our friends jealous. The cold weather inevitably led us having cold, and we soothed our throat with glasses of hot chocolate. The Broadway Theatre workshop brought out our ‘acting ka keeda’ and we had a nice time at the dazzling Times Square.

A very peculiar habit of the people living in the States is sharing their whole hearts with others, as if they’ve known us all their lives. Many people just casually wave at you, and, you have your friends staring at you, thinking, that you know those people! They are unlike the people we see in India, whose hearts are delighted by the honking sounds and who cross roads considering themselves superman. There I saw people stand patiently even if you break a washroom line at a crowded theme park!

The thing we missed the most was of course our home cooked food. It was now that we realised that the food we make a fuss about every day can be so very scrumptious. One can’t live only on pizzas for days. And French fries, I didn’t touch for at least a month! Heading back to India, we looked forward to a nice Indian meal and to keep safe in our hearts our happy memories together.

Our US Capers

The first day we expected a jet lag

But so high our excitement was

That we set out with our bags on our back.

At Disney World

Even after waiting in long queues