Trip to My Grand Parents Village

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Trip to My Grand Parents Village

It is summer. Santhosh’ vacation has started. His parents are going to Sirumalai, his parents’ village. Santhosh is excited. He records an audio diary on his mother’s phone. He records all his feelings during the visit. Later, he writes down in his diary what he had recorded. Let’s read his diary to know his experiences during this visit.

10th April:

I am very eager to visit my grand parents’ village. I will meet my grand parents and cousins. I have packed my clothes and tab for playing video games. We will be travelling in a bus. I am so excited.

11th April:

Today we are travelling. Though it is summer, the weather is pleasant in the morning. There are numerous trees with yellow flowers on both sides of the road. There is greenery all around. There are many white cranes in the lush green paddy fields. The scarecrows have managed to scare away the crows in the fields. There is no traffic, noise and air pollution in the village.

I get off the bus and run to meet my grandparents. They are delighted to see me. The house is surrounded by many big trees. There are a few jackfruit, mango, neem, banana, pomegranate and coconut trees. The trees have abundant fruits. My grandfather has plucked some ripe mangoes for me. The mangoes are so juicy and sweet.

12th April:

I have woken up early today. I am out for a walk in the morning. The cool breeze is pleasing. The coconut palms are swaying lazily. The farmers are already in their fields. Some of them are cutting the crops and some of them are threshing the paddy. The air is filled with the sweet sound of birds singing in the trees and the bushes. The cuckoo’s song is perhaps the most enchanting.

When I come home, I freshen up and eat the tastiest breakfast in my life. Later, my grandmother introduces a girl, Paavai. She goes to the village school. She lives down the street. She is very eager to show me around the village. Paavai shows me how to play with a tyre and a stick. We happily run down the lanes balancing the tyre with a small stick. We stop to talk to Paavai’s friends, Amir, Peter and Umaiyal. All children here too have their summer vacation. Amir is helping his father in milking their cows. He lets me pat his black calf. Peter and Umaiyal are sitting with their grandmother breaking groundnut pods and piling them neatly. Later they will take the nuts to the village market to sell them. I help them for some time.

13th April:

Paavai takes me to the village pond. There are many children splashing around in the pond. Some boys are climbing to the top of the tall tamarind tree. Girls are playing hide and seek near the big banyan tree.

My mother and my aunties take me to the river for a refreshing bath. I play for some time in the cool water but I cannot swim. So, I sit on a big smooth rock and watch my friends swim like experts. They talk and laugh a lot as they wash their clothes and dry their hair in the Sun. The river is so clean that I can see the pebbles in the riverbed and colourful fish swim by. I love the scenery.

14th April:

We are back to our home in the city. The trip to our grand parents’ home was so enjoyable. Those two days flew by so fast. I realised that during this stay, I had neither watched television nor played video games. I am eagerly looking forward to our next visit.

Think: Is TV and video game the only way to pass time? Can we do something else?

Glossary

Eager : keen

vacation : holiday

numerous : great in number

pebble : a kind of stone

expert : well skilled