Our second stop was Shillong in Meghalaya. By the time we covered the four hour journey by road from Guwahati to Shillong, the city had closed. It was as dead as a Dodo and quite surprising for us Delhites who have the privilege to get up at 3 in the night and walk into a 24 hour restaurants to grab a bite! But this city slept by 8 pm.
St. Mary's School, one of the top most school for girls in Shillong was our early morning destination the next day. Meticulous dressing, polite and respectful behavior marked the typical personality of a 'Convent Educated' girl. Beautiful, spacious and wide campus had a rather simple looking sister as their Principal.
Animation movie, 'Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms'. 280 girls attended the screening which was followed by a workshop on story-boarding. The children made lovely and innovative storyboards. Having attended such a workshop and a discussion gave them a different perception to look at films & develop a new understanding towards cinema. This workshop will definitely help them look out and believe in alternative careers as they are called now.
The music culture as all might be aware, is very prevalent in Shillong. Though film-making is yet to develop and workshops and screenings like these broaden the career horizon for them.
Our second stop was an NGO - Childline. The feeling of us (the whole team) being there - being able to do something for the underprivileged, proved to be a little overwhelming. All the team members felt so much at peace, satisfied and happy to the core for being there and having had the privilege of visiting the NGO and do that screening.
A few team members also played a friendly football match with the kinds later which proved to be great fun even for the on-lookers.
Oh by the way, I called it the city of cars because everywhere you looked you saw cars and taxis. It wouldn't be wrong to say they outnumbered the people!
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