Day 7 Experience(23-12-2023) at Alleppey and from Alleppey to Kochi by Manas

 My experience on Day 7(23-12-2023) at Alleppey and from Alleppey to Kochi:

On 23-12-2023 Myself, Karthik, Sridhar, Promit, Renish, Mahendra, Drishaan and Pranav got up in the morning at 7:15 a.m. and brushed our teeth and freshened up and after brushing our teeth and freshening up, then we got ready for wrestling Myself and Karthik like that is we did little bit only with our hands and body moving ourselves and Karthik told me that I get tensed some times and I told that I don’t get tensed sometimes to Karthik and Pranav was appreciating me that’s I am a nice man only don’t do anything and always positive and Karthik told me Keep it up. Then after that all of us went to the outside verandah sat down in the outside verandah and then were talking discussing of Drishaan marvel characters like Avengers, Spiderman and Throng and so many characters of his marvel of Drishaan from 7:40 a.m. till 8:30 a.m. so many talks/discussions/conversations going on and went to the beach at 8:30 a.m. from Elara Beach Guest House and saw the beach enjoyed in the beach went till the beach water saw the full backwaters of the beach and was very nice from 8:30 a.m. till 9:00 a.m. and then from the beach walked in the nature to Breakfast Village from 9:00 a.m. till 9:25 a.m. like experiencing eating breakfast in the open nature from 9:25 a.m. till 10:25 a.m. and had lots of talks/discussions/conversations at Breakfast Village and Karthik was telling me to initiate the plan like Sridhar told 15th February 2024 we can go to Tiruvannamalai Ramana Ashram stay at Tiruvannamalai Ramana Ashram book the place and Karthik told me to initiate the plan that is 18th February 2024 is our Auroville Marathon so 16th February 2024 we start in the morning from Bangalore to Auroville and then stay at Auroville 16th February 2024 to 18th February 2024 and told me to initiate the plan of visiting Ramana Ashram Tiruvannamalai experiencing the girivalam walk sitting in the nature and Sridhar told we have to look at the place Tiruvannamalai Ashram and also booking to be done and 19th February 2024 we spend first half at Tiruvannamalai Ashram take leave 19th February 2024 return second half to Bangalore from Tiruvannamalai Ashram and then Karthik asked where we shall stay at Auroville should we stay in some place at Auroville like nature place or rest house is fine and told Habari Rest House is fine Auroville staying there for our Auroville Marathon and he requested me to initiate the plan of Auroville February 2024 16th February 2024 till 19th February 2024 which was the discussion of plan for February 2024 travel to Auroville for Auroville Marathon going on and also breakfast village Karthik told it was like Auroville place being with the nature enjoying in the nature getting peace and being nice with the nature at Breakfast Village and breakfast was veg grilled sandwich and some hot ginger lemon honey tea drank to hydrate ourselves as it was very hot at Alleppey. Karthik told Mahendra that he took his bath early got ready fast and came on time is what he appreciated to him and followed it and did it and then after breakfast went to the Elara Beach Guest House and took bath from 10:35 a.m. till 10:55 a.m. We met a foreigner and a foreigner asked me I am Manas and I told I am Manas work in Autism At Work Program. I gave an introduction to him and asked us where are we going and told we are going to Kochi from Alleppey and the trip was from 17th to 23rd December went to Kochi, Athirapally Waterfalls, Munnar, Thekkady and Alleppey. A foreigner asked any plans as such for now and Karthik told we’re planning to go to Auroville in February 2024. We left from Alleppey to Kochi at 11:35 a.m. to 13:35 p.m. by TT and while going in the TT we were just having some talks/conversations/discussions going on and saw Marari Beach full Kochi city port and Karthik told the driver Kochi is full of city port shopping Marine Drive and then reached Valayathayil Homestay at 13:35 p.m. and David was the owner of HomeStay and we did the check-in formalities like giving our aadhar details filling in the register and also Karthik told to David about my memory date he told the date 24th May 1989 the day was Wednesday and he said it was correct and appreciated that and was able to remember 28 years back and then left from Valayathayil Homestay at 13:55 p.m. to Let’s Eat Bakers at 14:00 p.m. and reached at 14:20 p.m. and then stopped for lunch at 14:25 p.m. at Let’s Eat Bakers and took veg puff creamy pattice and veg sandwich and non-veg sandwich Renish took and drank strawberry shake and took strawberry donut and Drishaan took chocolate donut and Pranav also strawberry shake and mango shake sharjah shake which was from 14:25 p.m. to 15:15 p.m. and Drishaan bought some cookies biscuits for his parents to take for his home to Delhi and Karthik bought some chocolates biscuits for Brian’s home and then left at 15:20 p.m. from Let’s Eat Bakers to Brian's Home by same TT only from Valayathayil HomeStay to Let’s Eat Bakers to Brian’s Home and spent some time in Brian’s home from 15:55 p.m. till 17:25 p.m. and had lots of talks/discussions/conversations from 16:00 p.m. till 17:30 p.m. sharing our life experiences giving an introduction about my runs 6 half marathons done many 10 kms run sing carnatic music and also walking my passions/interests and also my memory. We also did singing performances which was appreciated by Karthik and Brian and his parents and Karthik was telling we have been doing storytelling meet every Saturday with Mohana Ma'am her husband is no more she’s alone and has a son and daughter and she tells mythological stories so many stories and also we do singing performance during storytelling meet every Saturday and took some tea to drink and brownies and little veg pizza at Brian’s home and saw Brians paintings which was very good such a great drawings artworks he does which was appreciated by others at Brian’s home in our Friends For Autism which was one and half hours lots of discussions/talks/chat going on from 16:00 p.m. till 17:30 p.m. From Brian Home we went to the bus stop and took a bus to Anjan Home from 17:40 p.m. and reached bus stop of Anjan home at 18:30 p.m. In the bus Mahendra told me that he wanted to come to my home and for that he needs my address of my home and don’t tell this to anyone is what he told me and then we walked from the bus stop of Anjan home at 18:35 p.m. and reached Anjan home at 19:00 p.m. We met Anjan father in the road while going to home and after reaching Anjan home we went and saw his house he has a big bungalow his bed and lots of his caricatures, paintings he does and he got awards from Abdul Kalam, President Pranab Mukherjee so many awards he received for his outstanding contribution to work and his excellency in artworks in his exhibitions and we saw lots of his paintings and he has a cerebral palsy eyes vision impairment and uses crutches to walk and showed how the disability space outside his home has been made accessible for he using a wheelchair and he does using his ipad paintings sketches drawings and is a cartoonist so many talks/discussions/conversations were going on and each one of us met Anjan’s cousins and gave an introduction of our Friends For Autism had lots of talks/discussions/conversations going on from 19:00 p.m. till 21:30 p.m. and also Anjan did caricatures drawings of Renish and Sridhar in paper sketch with a pencil in ipad touch screen he does drawings paintings and took dinner french fries fried rice gobi manchurian paneer sabzi and chapati and dessert custard good dinner and had so many talks/discussions/conversations going on in general and then dinner was from 20:30 p.m. till 21:00 p.m. and went upstairs to Anjan home has a balcony for treadmill, garden nature, balcony work place work from home upstairs and a nice home like a bungalow it was of Anjan all of us experiencing and then left from Anjan home to Valayathayil Homestay at 21:40 p.m. and reached at 22:30 p.m. and all of us were very tired and went off to sleep at 22:45 p.m.