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My First Field Trip - Ardenwood Farm

Yesterday i went to a field trip along with Amy [ my daughter ] as a volunteer from her class. I am new to this place [ Fromont ] and dont have a car to drive so, it was basically Amy's friend's mother who asked me to volunteer for the class - trip. I heard a lot about the "field-trip". So was really excited to be part of it . I was in charge of 2 kids. Their class teacher was not been able to go, so it was basically "4 Mom-Volunteer" who were there to manage the class. We started from the school from 9:30 am and we were there in the "Ardenwood Farm" by 10am. It was really great to go along with the kids and Amy was super excited to see that i am there to help her class out. We spent the entire day with visiting the different aspect of this farm. Back in India i am too much familiar with such farms but for the kids here it is a total new experience and all of them were enjoying a lot. Some kids are over enthusiastic, where as some are less excit

Shyamnagar and my childhood....

Now a days i am leading a full leisure life ...after having 8.5 years of hectic and always "on toe" life i am now absolutely free. It was very good for couple of months i tried to learn cooking which was a lacking expertise for me ...now a days i can cook some very descent food and sometime better than restaurant. :-) . After that i have tried to do some in-house project that i always wanted to do during my working days to gain certain proficiency with something ...but recently i am finding myself very isolated and lonely.   Being so called "educated" i know that the loneliness is a disease ...so i thought let me keep myself busy with anything to everything. Now it is 8:30am at my place and it is a sunny day so far, birds are outside so are the toddlers :-) . Childhood is the best blessing in human life ...is it so? it was best for us ...but being from a country where poverty is all time high i know that is not the case for every child in our country. But still i