the workshop

hai 2de was a wonderful de, haha. 2de we had a workshop on translation of public education materials written in english into 3 Indian langs, MAlaYalaM, Hindi and KaNada. we students were divided into 3 grps and i was in the "malu" grp. last de itself the organisers have informed us abt the workshop which wl start by 10am, but i was under the impression tat it wl start at 10.30 am. after watching a film on fride eve, i got up very late on sat, by 9.40 tat too after my friend knocked in door. i gt up and she asked "r u nt cmg" and i replied its at 10.30. she said, " who told u so?" and i asked who changed the schedule?"
i dnt like to go out without takng bath, and i hv to report at seminar hall by 10.00. i rushed to get ready and thr is no water in our corridor, i ran to the nxt corridor, luckily i culd take bath and i gt ready by 10.
ran to seminar hall,and thank god, the programme started after i reached by abt 10.20 (as usual late)
thn thr was presedential address by 2 eminent personalities talking abt languages, bilingualism and translation of materials
after the tea brk, programme staretd, and i culd find me and my friends struggling for getting apt words for each of the english word in malayalam, our mother tongue. i was recollecting the literary and pure malayalm lang after around 4years. initially it ws difficult and i tuk around 2hrs to complete one page. after lunch brk, i was more energetic (as usual and especially 2de i dint have mybrkfast) and started off again. by 4.30 we culd finish our wrk and leave the hall.

finally the lesson i learned was tat my knowledge in l1 as well as l2 is pathetic, nhi nhiiii