Personal Blog of Arsh Sinha, a thirteen-year-old talented bibliophile and a sweet and caring introvert who started blogging at the age of seven.He is also a keyboardist, an ardent chess lover and a number-cruncher and has won several gold medals in National Olympiads, public speaking and Creative Writing Competition
Diwali 2020 was very different from Diwalis in the former years. Every year, I used to visit my grandparents' house and celebrate over there. Unfortunately, this year I couldn’t and was stuck at my house. Meeting my friends and family was just like a dream.
The atmosphere outside was like a gas chamber, and it was as cold as ice. This Diwali, there were absolutely no firecrackers. Some people hadn’t put lights in their houses, and most of the streets were deserted.
But if you look at it from a different point of view, it was not that bad. I tried to make the best out of this beautiful festival. I had ordered a lot of lights online, and spent time beautifully putting them both outside and inside my house.
I and my family lit candles and diyas. Because of no firecrackers, there was way less pollution and less noise, which is good, both for us and animals. I munched on homemade sweets and snacks. The view from my terrace was spectacular.
I video-called my friends and other family members which was a good substitution to physical meetings. I really hope this pandemic gets over soon and we all can celebrate together again, like the previous years.
I am really enjoying my summer vacations this year for the past few weeks. There is so much leisure and I am really happy because I have no tension of rushing to school and I am very relaxed. Last week only, we have returned from our Bangalore, Mysore, Ooty and Coonoor trip which I really enjoyed. On this Saturday we went to the awesome and fascinating place~The Kidzania Mumbai and in this post I will share why I loved it so much.
We reached Kidzania around 10 a.m. and we were inside the beautiful entrance where we were greeted with a 50 KidZos cheque in our hand and we were in search of the yes bank where we could encash the cheque.
There we got to know about the concept of money at Kidzania, which were the KidZos and the Kidzania debit card. There were Atms to transact money from your Kidzania card. There were also passports which gave you extra KidZos. I was rooting to have a lot of fun.
Kidzania is the Kids nation where they can do each and every job they wanted; some would pay us while we will have to spend in others to learn a particular skill. Now I would tell you about the prodigious places I went.
I went to many different places in Kidzania which were:
The first place which was really marvellous was the Radio FM 91.1 where we had to be a radio jockey (RJ) and make the live FM telecast of FM BOLE TOH 91.1 with our dialogues on the screen. each RJ had to tell after a song which were heart touching because of Mothers Day special.
The next place was the Parle candy factory which was amazing because they showed us how their machines add flavour and package the candy.We made our OWN candy and it was very special to relish a candy you yourself have made.
Now was the time for me to enjoy the fun of a fire fighter in Kidzania which I could not do before as there was a long long waiting for that.There they taught us how to prevent fire and what to do if there is a fire.
Next,I entered the RISING STAR shooting set where we had choices to be a camera person, judge or contestant. there was a competition between me and some others to be the judges which I won. Our parents were the audience. I was the judge and I was giving feedbacks to all the contestants. It was an adorable and lovely experience.
Our next hunt was the Dettol hospital with a waiting of 20min but it was a good experience and I loved it.I performed a liver transplant of a dummy. They taught us the controls of the machines in the hospital.
Now we were off for lunch in Kidzania, we had a pizza and Frooti. I was really excited for the activities we were going to enjoy further.
We also went to the the lovely Nickelodeon set which was a cartoon voice dubbing program of the magical show "Rudra". I dubbed the voice of Shakal there and I loved that.
As a sweets lover, I went to Mad Over Doughnuts outlet. I felt incredible on the doorstep of it. They gave us a round, bread doughnut base. We had delightful choices to dip it in different types of sauces and I chose the milk one as it was looking good.
The last place was the Kidzania Police department where we had to find the criminal. We went to many different places for investigation like the driving school and the airport.Our conclusion was that the thief flew away to Delhi last night.
There were many other activities I engaged in before it was night and we started back for Pune. I was so overwhelmed by the experience, really really loved it. It was amazing and I will be going there once again to finish the ones we missed out the 60 industries and 100 plus more activities. It was truly amazing!
