The Perceptionist.....

On the 7 th February 2019,  our BBA (Travel & Tourism) Department organized a field trip for the students of the First Year’s to three different museums in Goa for the purpose of educating the students of the different Tourism Products of India but in particular the ‘state of Goa’. First we were taken to the Goa Chitra Museum at Benaulim. At the Goa Chitra Museum, we were first shown the different bullock carts from the different states of India with their significance being explained. Then we were taken to an area in the museum where different items that Goan churches used to have in olden times like the small alter, an object that was used in the past to make hosts to serve as communion and various other items of interest in the churches were put on display. Next we were shown the different tools that were used to make toddy, the traditional Goan feni and sugarcane. Overall it was a really nice museum but what caught most people’s attention (including me) was the ex...

I had just arrived home from college today when I suddenly came to know that Mother Mary's statue is coming to my neighbor's place. This really excited me as it was the first time that I was getting to experience it in Goa . It is a tradition very much prevalent in Goa particularly in the villages where in the months of September and October the statue of Mother Mary visits the houses of the people living in that particular village and along with the statue come a group of people with candles singing beautiful hymns in praise of Mother Mary. So I and my mother set off to the neighbour's place in our village of Parra where we waited for the statue to arrive. In the meantime, we got a chance to meet many people from our village we don't get to meet otherwise such as Nobert, one of the neighbours who just lives nearby and Mary, an old friend to my mother. These are the people that my mother knows about very well considering the fact that she was born and brought up in...

It has been six months passed ever since I had finished my Grade 12 board exams. I can imagine how the time has flown so fast….almost half a year is over. It is hard to imagine that about five months down the line on this date, I had already landed in Goa and I was relaxing and chilling out on that particular day. Over the past five months from the date I landed in Goa along with my family members, a lot has happened and that too at a very rapid pace. In fact a very surprising thing to note….the first semester of my college has just got over and now I’ve begun with my second semester. Imagine one term itself is already over. I can imagine that by the time I very well know for myself, I will have finished the course that I have taken that is BBA in Travel and Tourism by then seeing the pace at which things are going. Nevertheless there are certain things that I would like to make a mention of that I would consider as some of my best highlights of this year so far in college. F...

                                          It has been three weeks past ever since I departed to Goa for good. I still remember how on that particular day I and my family had taken all those suitcases to the airport but this time, it wasn't any normal trip we do undertake such as during the summer holidays or Christmas holidays but a journey back to our homeland here in Goa. I was sad at first, at the fact that we would have to leave permanently as I got so used to the place I was living that was in the U.A.E where we all lived in the city with everything in proximity. More sad than me was my sister, who even now still misses all her friends and sends them WhatsApp messages every now and then. But now, after three weeks, I don't really feel sad anymore as I prefer it here in Goa, where you are exposed to nature, where you experience the beautiful bounties of what it is to li...