School tour…..  this is not just a couple of words but an emotion for all school students, especially for our school student because during the 12th grade we will be taken to cities like Goa, Delhi, Mysore, Hyderabad and to many more cities. I had waited for 12 long year for this trip. While joining the school in 1st grade, my class teacher told “children….. you know one thing, during 12th, that is after 12 years you girls will be taken to places like Mysore, Goa”. as a 5 year old kid that excited me a lot. than after 11 years, that excitement never cam down because my parents never took me to places outside Tamil Nadu. And the next thing which excited me was that I will be spending 3 days in another city with my friends. 

And one fine day, after our mid term test got finished my class teacher just walked in and stayed silent for a moment. The whole class was astonished to see our class teacher like that because she never used to be silent. then she said a soothing voice “Girls… the school management has decided to take you all to Hyderabad for 3 days and 2 nights”. a screaming noises came form the ones who occupied the back bench and without any doubt my scream was dominated the other back benchers. I started yo plan my trip in my mind, but my teachers was not happy because she never completed her portion for the first term exam.

There are more memorable moments related to the trip, that one night in the hotel was the most scary as well as most funniest moment in my life. On 1.08.2019 nearly after roaming the Golkonda fort, hanuman temple we headed to the hotel, the hotel had decided to give a dance party with dj for the students. We danced for an hour in the hall, I was exhausted but still continued to dance to the amazing beats with my best friends. Then the dj stopped his music and we stopped dancing. After having a lavish and luxury dinner we were gives ice cream to eat, being a weirdest creatures in the planet. My best friend Nivetha skipped the dinner and she headed towards the room allotted to us. She took a shower and changed to her pyjama. When she was tying her hair someone was knocking the door. We were instructed not to open door as we were in the 6th floor and we were the only group that is me and my other 3 friend was alone in that floor and our other friend was staying in 4th and 5th floor. Nivetha ignored the knocking sound but the man who was stalking kept one knocking, the situation was becoming more intense, Nivetha loosed her patients and opened the door. Her me and my friends ate more than 3 cups of ice cream and we decided to go for a 4th cup. as planed we headed to the ice cream corner, me, Sharon and Sujitha shamelessly lifted the 4th cup and walk toward the couch. When we stared the first spoon of the 4th cup, Sunita can running towards us running out of breath and started blabbering “ nive… nive… someone stalked…. she standing outside… room is locked….” and kept on repeating the broken sentence. after a while she said clearly “someone is stalking nive and she is afraid standing alone there, she is restless, she is anxious…..” Sunita kept saying this repeatedly I think she was so afraid of the stalker. Dharshana, Sunita, and Sandya headed toward the 6th floor while me, Pearl, Sujitha and Sharon headed toward the reception to get the spare room card. While I was explaining the situation the receptionist never bothered to listen to me. That very moment made me feel so disappointed because my best friend was stalked in that hotel by an anonymous guy who was just crossing his limits. she was standing alone in the hotel lobby which was even more scarier that any" bhoot bangla". The next thing which disappointed us was we were not allowed to use the lift because of no reason.

 Then our English teacher saw us talking to the receptionist. she enquired us and we narrated the full incident happed. She was shocked to hear that one of us were stalked by an anonymous guy. Than the receptionist and our teacher accompanied us to our room. We climbed al the way the the 6th floor and was heading towards our allotted room, then we saw our friend Nivetha standing with the friends. Then Sharon started to run when she saw Nivetha, but she got slipped and she fell down on the floor. I was confused what to do whether to lift Sharon or go toward Nivetha and help her with her clothes. Sharon got her leg sprained very badly. the receptionist lifted Sharon and helped her to the bed. Nivetha was seemed afraid and restless because she never experienced such sort of things in her life. Then the receptionist opened the door for us and our teacher strictly instructed no to open the door at any cause. Then we all 8 entre the room and we enquired to Nivetha about the stalker. She was not sure with his face but she just had a glimpse of him. Shen told that the guy knocked and she opened and one one was there, she locked the room. The guy knocked again and she opened again and that every moment the room got locked and the room card was left in the room. She told he was fair and tall. The other four left the room and headed towards there respected rooms, then we 4 that is me, Sharon, Sujitha and Nivetha  left in that room. We was scared to stay there and was praying that the anonymous guys should not knock the door again. We never slept that night and kept on talking about the incident that happened. We had mixed feeling about that incident and this incident always comes to my mind when I think about Hyderabad. I have a dozens of memories related to Hyderabad but this one is something which has a mixed feelings. 

School trips hold a special place in our heart even we go to a nearby place or the other cities like Hyderabad, each trip has its own memories. But these all trips is mixed to good and bad memories but at that time we all 4 was feared but now if we think about it now we laugh about it. It is the first time where I am far away from my family but these hold a special place in our heart.