XLRI - Adventure Trip

Every College worth its salt, has an event that they can be proud of.

I guess XLRI's is the Adventure Trip - 2.5 days of sheer fun, exhaustion, and emotion. A day to remember definitely, for all.

The Trip
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The journey was not too far away from XLRI, in fact it was just around 25-30 kms away. The location was definitely desolate though, around 5 kms to the nearest main road.

The trip was all about stretching yourself in tight situations, and not letting your colleagues down. There's this story where an old man asks his sons to break a stick, and when they do that, he asks them to tie all the sticks together, and break them again. This time, they are unable to break the bundle.

This trip was all about that. It was all about teamwork. It was all about "We live as a team, but we die as individuals". And boy, was the trip worth its weight in Gold or what..

It was not all business talk about teamwork, and coordination and all that. It was fun as well. We got to do stuff that most of us have never done before. We got to pitch Tents (and some of us got to see them fall as well. :) ), we got to run obstacle courses, we got to climb mountains, and go through caves. And we got to Abseil down mountains too.




And like all good things should be, the best was saved for the last.

We got to raft on a beautiful Sunny morning, at Lake Dimna. The sky was clear, and the water calm, and the mountains in the background was majestic as ever. And we also got to build our own raft and paddle up and down the lake. Here we were playing with the lives of others, but in a team, as all good teams should be, we let our trust in each other overcome our fear. (Though a word of caution here: Please do test the raft before getting in; One of the rafts sank midway. Thank heavens for the safety equipment and the professionalism of the staff).



It was an awesomely memorable trip, something we can be nostalgic of, for a long time to come. Many new friendships were made, a few of them lasting, and all of them wonderful. We just wish we had this more often.

To end with, here's this amazing performance by Al Pacino on Team Work.

Al Pacino - Any Given Sunday

Ciao,
Rohit - Life Goes A Circle