So the pics aren't out yet, but I went waterfall rappelling today. It was a voluntary thing, organized by the company. I saw the email and I knew I wanted to go. It was a bit sad that noone else in my department wanted to but what the hell. This trip was all about me anyway. No friends, no family, no commitments. Me, new people and lotsa water hitting me as I ventured down a rope, sun in my eye and adrelanine in my veins.. Heady enough for a Gemini. And although it had a rather boring start, IT WAS FUNNNN!
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Set off some 0545 am (last time I saw dawn break was when I stayed up the entire night, never got up this early before) bundled myself in a sweatshirt n a wind cheater and off I went. I was to be part off 100 odd like minded adventure sport enthusiasts. The problem was - I knew none of them. No one from my class was going. Oh well, thats how you meet new people right?
The first people I met were a highly cute non-Mallu looking Mallu newly married couple, S & C. S was a pukka Delhiite type guy, from the sarcastic side of the humour family (is there really another other side?) from MDI, a famous management college in the country, and a maybe PG alma mater for me (I'm trying for it this year). So we got off to a good start conversation wise. C was an extremely reserved, very cute in a curly haired petite kinda way thing who I completely fell in love with.
After a 3 hour journey where most of the bus was catching up on their disturbed sleep, we stopped over at a lil place in the middle of nowhere (it really was - no service provider had network there!) for breakfast, it was back on the road. We reached our destination and that is where the madness began.
So we were supposed to have this training session, except we were running late. So we all simply climbed to the top of the waterfall and, encouraged by some rather awesome hooting(we could hear it over the waterfall!) the first guy in line was strapped up and set off down a 75 feet rocky waterfall with a rope to hold on to. Ok maybe I'm exaggerating the risk factor, but it was more fun that way!
Beside a lot of bruises n scrapes when we simply slipped off the rocks (its tough to stay perpendicular to a vertical cliff when your hanging by a rope!) , and one chap who incurred a rather nasty gash on his jaw, we were doing quite well. And then it was my turn.
By now I had befriended quite a couple of colleagues who were rather amused that I, a trainee, who did not even know the full forms of the abbreviations they used when giving their departments during the introductions, was there at all. )Trainees are considered non entities everywhere!). Also, I made the smart-alec mistake of giving a smug smile to C n saying "See you on the other side" just as she, shivering with trepidation, was about to be let down. So I was under a bit of..er..performance pressure.
I gotta go have dinner now..Wait for the next installment of this terribly named blog entry to know how my first experience in adventure sports went.