Thursday, March 18, 2010




My first realtime 'travel' adventure...flying out of Mumbai and reaching Dar Es Salaam International Airport. I had heard a lot about the USA and the beautiful countries of Europe from my father and my uncles, so travelling to this far-off land was like a dream come true.


The year 1976...Dar Es Salaam was a peaceful clean city with a sizeable population of people of South-East Asian origin and we felt quite at home there.Initially my brother and I went to the local school but then my father and some of the Indian expatriates got together and started up a school called the 'Indian Expatriate Study Group' in Upanga. We had the study material from India(CBSE) and for the first time in my life I learnt to read and write in Hindi ....since Villa Theresa first taught Marathi and we started Hindi only from the 3rd std.


There are so many more memories of Dar Es Salaam .... the beautiful Hotel Kilimanjaro and the yummy grilled fish they seved there.. the huge group family picnics at Oyster Bay with our favourite resort where none of us kids would leave the pool.


OHH!!! the silver-sands and the incredibly blue sea and the palm trees swinging in the breeze!!!


So, my fourth moonbeam is getting to study my native languages 'Hindi' and 'Sanskrit' sitting in the far away and beautiful country Tanzania,East Africa.

1 comment:

  1. Oops! It should be "people from South Asian origin" and not "South East Asian". :)

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