Onam Celebrations in college

Onam is a festival which is celebrated with great pomp and activity in Kerala. it is the main festival off all keralites. So most Colleges and schools celebrate it in there own campus. i have missed lot of onams as i have spent the best part of my life outside kerala. but now 'm back here.

We have onam celebration in our college every year. students in our college are divided into 4 houses-agni,akash,prithvi,and vayu. Final year students have a separate house of there own(though it not liked by all). The activities are participated by students of the various houses and they are given prizes. One of the main attraction is the Pookalam(flower carpet) contest. Last year my house had got 2nd in that competition and i wanted to repeat that(oops!!! sorry i forgot to mention that i was made the temporary captain if Agni House :-) ). the day before the celebration was the day our exams were over but my work had just started. i had to collect money from the students so that i can buy flowers for the floral carpet(when onam comes the flowers are more costlier than gold). But by that time most of the students had gone home only leaving a handful back in college. So by the end of the day i had 500 rs( out of which 200 i got from students rest were from my pocket) while the rest of the houses had collected more than a thousand.
That night i sent one of my friends to get the flowers. the Big day arrived and the competition was supposed to start at 9.30 but they started at 9( lack of communication). So we started a hour late. Buy the time we had drawn the carpet using chalk the flowers arrived> luckily we finished the thing just in time. When the results came my house had come second(second cos final years always get first even if they have made the worst thing). Yippeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!! I was feeling very happy cos i had emulated performance of last year( first was what i wanted..but i'm happy..maybe next time). And guess what the houses which had collected over 1000Rs came 4th and 5th.
The chief guest gave me my prize which was a box full of chocolates which i distributed to all who had helped me with the contest. thank you guys. The rest of the day was spent watching cultural events( and lot of booing for flop events :-) ).
But now i have to somehow get back the money i had invested in this contest. That will be another Story. i'll post the photos of the event soon
Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!