Siddhi Bhosale

Team Orange! Experiential Learning was completely different from what I had anticipated about it. I thought it would be an intellectual grill, but it turned out to be ‘life lessons’ wrapped in games, that seemed like sports day on the surface, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. After playing all the activities, while going back home, I realised it was so much more than just physical activities. Everything makes sense in hindsight, and so does ‘Experiential Learning’. We all gathered on the college campus and had the morning tea (or morning desserts). Then we were given balloons to blow up and save them from being burst by other team members. The teams were formed by the organizing committee, so it was ensured that no good friends were in the same team. Thus, I got to talk and play with people I have had the fewest conversations with in college so far.  Lesson 1: to deal with people you don’t know and play with them as a team! Initially were asked to sit with our teams in the...

  After spending the last few days of 2025 in Gujarat, I realised that it's not the place, it's the people we meet at those places, who decide whether we like that place or not! And with Gujarat, this was the second time that I fell for the state because of the kindest souls who treated me with so much love and hospitality. The first time I visited Gujarat was when I was in class 6th during my summer vacation. I remember telling everyone I was going to Gujarat, because up till then, we used to visit Gwalior in summer vacations ( https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2025/05/summer-holidays-in-gwalior.html ), but a year before that, my grandparents had shifted back to Maharashtra, so this time we were visiting my maternal grandmother’s sister, who stayed in Vadodara. She had been insisting on our visiting her for as long as I can remember, almost once every week, she called at 3 pm sharp, which used to be the time when Mumma was asleep, and I had my T.V time ( https://sidthisside.bl...