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Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Journal 15.5: Republic day



Today was the grand event. We celebrated republic day one day earlier since the 26th is a national holiday. As the chief guests entered the arena, each of us saluted Nishanth, who was the only candidate in India to score 45 in the November 2016 examinations, Mithin who got an extremely high score of 44, and their parents. Once they were escorted to their seats, the program began. The juniors hosted the program and the little kids performed patriotic dances and and sang patriotic songs. Mithin was called up forward to hoist the flag, after which we all saluted the Indian flag. Later, Nishanth was made to stand next to the flag and we performed the march past to salut him for his tremendous achievement, and also to carry the pride for this achievement as we all belong to the sam family : TIPS. Thankfully, the entire batch completed the march past without any noticeable mistakes. In fact, our trainers and teachers appreciated us for having done a perfect march past coordinatively with the band as well. Before the program came to an end, Nishanth gave a an inspiring speech. He said “impatience is a virtue” which actually struck a cord in my mind. He said that impatience is the key to learning. He also mentioned that the score he achieved was because of the shoulders he stood on, including his family, the entire teach faculty and his friends. I had goose bumps till the end of the speech. That’s how inspiring it was!

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