2015 Summer vacation camps ..

Yet another summer vacation for children and as usual all the flyers and hoardings of different vacation camps and schools all around Trivandrum city. Last year vacation we had been to Delhi, Agra and Amritsar for 2 weeks. And we bought a cycle for Esther and had decided that  2015 vacation if possible will send her for swimming classes. As soon as the vacation began we checked out the institute and were told to come after 1 week, and when we went after 1 week were told to check out after 2 weeks ... And by the time we went back to check again they had closed down Registration for swimming... I was disappointed , because this is the 2^nd year we missed the chance , but then on knowing that there are around 70 children in each batch to learn swimming, i thought it is better to wait for the next training session which hopefully would be after 1 month or so .

So with no chance of learning swimming , we thought of checking out other sports – Basketball, badminton and TT were all available , and Esther decided to pick up Badminton, i tried to sell the idea of TT (to check if she was serious about badminton) but she was sure that she wants to improve Badminton. We decided to check out the facility .The venue for the coaching camp is Jimmy George stadium which is about 6-7 kms from our home . The wooden floor 8 badminton and a Basket ball courts are world class and there are 4 Table Tennis Tables again good enough for international tournaments. Since last week I have been taking her for the badminton sessions which starts at 2:30 and goes on till 5 – 5:15 pm.

Though 2.5 hours is a long time and couple of days I came back home after dropping Esther to the stadium, realised that 2 trips during the afternoon time was waste of  energy , so now i take a book with me and read till the sessions get over. More than the badminton its the group activities which is fun to watch. Now the group activities or games are games which ‘We’ used to play during our childhood days, ‘ Langadi Taang’ i.e chasing a group of children hoping on 1 leg, relay running, skipping, hoping and some other simple games which we used to play almost daily , but now they are part of camp activities ... I asked Esther don’t you play these games at school ? She said – No, and she added that she wish that the young coaches from LNCP were  her school PT teachers ...No wonder I could few kids in the group of 25 children who did not know to Hop, skip and 2 of them don’t know to run ! Guess for this generation children, PS, XBOX, games on tablets and mobile phones are more familiar activities  ....  L

If you want to check out vacation camp programs in Trivandrum check http://trivandrumsummercamps.com/