the First parade

We had our very first parade in August; it was prior to our very first camp. We did not know the basic drill of NCC, so our seniors taught us basic drills like Attention, Stand at ease, Left turn, Right Turn and Marching. The word of command was given in Hindi. The motto of NCC is unity and discipline. Training was given by NCC officers and that too in Hindi, they were north Indian people. It was a good experience. We learned a lot from the drill. Before drill we had to warm up our body to do drill, we were told to run five rounds in the ground, the ground was so huge and by three rounds all girls were exhausted. But our girl senior encouraged us and said to do it with energy. We said ok and ran five rounds.
     Drill started from 8am and by 10.30am it was over. Then we were taken to classroom for theory classes which were taken both by seniors and officers. When there was no class cultural programs were there and juniors were given chance to sing, speak and many other program. Some girls were shy and didn’t do anything but seniors didn’t allow it, they give punishments to such cadets and then they sang. Mithun always got punishment. I and Greeshma had no such problems, we were ready for anything, to sing, to dance and our seniors said that we both had chance to get into Republic Day Camp in NCC. RDC camp is one of the best camps in NCC, our seniors said we had to work hard for that. We were interested in it but by second year my interest in RDC was gone because we had to leave 3 months class for the camp. But Greeshma was determined in it and she went for the camp. Vineesh and Sudhi Krishnan went to the camp in the very first year only they were very lucky. 
           After the cultural programs lunch was there from canteen and then again cultural program in the class. After that we had to change our uniform and wear civil dress. Then we had meeting in the NCC office and then announcements will be made by the seniors if there are any and then we were allowed to go. The parade occurs every Saturday and second Saturday was holiday. Those Saturdays really rocked….