A picnic is a short trip for pleasure to a beautiful place. Picnics add spice to out life. They provided the much sought after relief from our routine life.
They refresh out tired nerves. Picnics give students a temporary relief from their studies. After enjoying a picnic, they feel fresh and take up their studies with renewed vigor. Every school and college arranges picnics for its students.
Last week , the headmaster of our school offered to take us, the 36 students of class V to the zoological gardens for a picnic on a Sunday. I, being the class monitor was given the responsibility to organize the same with our class teacher, Mr. Banerjee. I informed all the students and also called up the venue to make the necessary bookings. Each student contributed Rs 50 each for the complete tour.
All the students of class V reached the school on Sunday before 8:00 am. The bus also arrived on time. The class teacher asked the students to board the bus and take their seats. The first three front seats were reserved for the headmaster, our class teacher, Mr Banerjee and me,as I was the school monitor. The bus left at 8:15 am. We reached zoological gardens at 9:00 am. The journey was very comfortable.
The students were very happy as they would have a free day to enjoy themselves. They were all wearing fashionable dresses and looking smart and cheerful. Our class teacher and I went to buy the entry tickets for all of the students from the entry gate.
There are almost 200 varieties of plants and animals in the zoo and we were thrilled to see the tiger, the Asiatic lions, the elephants, the different reptiles and numerous colourful birds. There was a baby elephant which was playing around his mother. It made us very happy. The zoo had lot of plants and was full of brightly coloured flowers. There are also solar powered buses, bicycles and cars at the 'Solar Energy Park'.
On the headmaster’s suggestion,I organized a lot of events for the students. Some recreational...