It all began in Fall '06:
Our (Fall 06 Batch of SIUe) first gettogether started at Eat Street in Hyderabad before we came to SIUe. We all planned and met at Eat Street and got acquainted with each other before coming to SIUe. Many of us even planned to fly together to SIUe. People booked tickets in bulk, 4 to 8 people together. I flew alone though.
After we reached SIUe, our batch everyone had lot of get together parties at our house (Goverdhan, Sai and Mine). We had so many get together that we became very close. Almost every day and night we used to hangout with each other especially at a bench present in the open area near our houses. We used to sit there hours and hours and chat.
As the semester went on our friendship became better and better. Then one by one some graduated and some were left here to finish their rest of the masters due to "complications". Then as the last part of our batch was about to graduate we started to have get together parties again.
re-gettogether of Summer '08:
During the Summer 08 semester in SIUe we all had 1 whole month of weekends as get together parties. As soon as the weekend came we used to have get together at the same place (Sai's house). Shilpa, Sruthi, Usha, Vineela, Chetan, Hara Krishna, Sandeep, Jay, Sai and me had regular get together at the house. And we even organized a get together at Raju's house at cougar village for a change and invited all the Fall 06 batchmates for dinner and had a good time.
Many of of gettogethers:
On the first week of our get together we went to Six Flags on July 5th together after going to see the St.Louis fireworks for the July 4th. Then me, Jay and Sai went to the "Ready" movie on July 12th after a long time then another week we had a dinner party at cougar village on July 13th with a lot of fun playing games followed by another dinner party at Sai's house and then drinking party for everyone (all batches) at Sandeep's house on the occasion of everybody successfully finishing masters on July 17th. Then another day we all went to the DARK KNIGHT movie at showplace on July 20th and had a great experience watching it from the front row.
On July 24th, we all went to eat dinner at Denny's restaurant and then hanged out at Coldstone Ice cream center and had a great time. After that we went back to Sai's house for Dhawal's Birthday party and enjoyed the cake. After that we all sat till morning 6:30 am and played Dumb Sherads, and some other games. We had a lot of fun hanging out the whole day together.
On July 25th, I returned from job and slept in the afternoon because of the last night's less sleep, then ate at Sai's house at 10:30 pm after waking up and then went to a birthday party, came back and had a great drinking party sponsored by Jay. We kept drinking and talking and enjoying till 5:00 am in the morning. I never had that much fun before.
Bye Bye Shilpa:
Next day when I woke up, it was 1:00 pm and Shilpa came to say bye to us. She was very sad to leave us. After she left to Chicago, we all went to Shruthi's house and hanged out at her house where she made double ka meetha for us. She makes very nice double ka meetha. I requested her more and she made more and because I liked it so much she made some almost everyday for us until she left Edwardsville. While everyone was free because they graduated I was working on my projects as my classes were still going on.
Next day (July 27th) got up at 2pm and tried to do .net assignment but hung out at Shruthi's house and ate upma and brought their useless furniture to our house for our use. On July 30th, I went work earlier than I was supposed to come in and went to class after finishing work. Submitted the Final project and then Me, Jay and Sai went to Bobby's to eat Ice Cream after a week of wait and postponement.
Trip to St Louis:
Jay wanted to see the great things of St Louis which we haven't seen so we chose a saturday before he left Edwardsville for good and selected a few hot spots to check out, like the Anheuser Busch Beer factory, Botanical garden, Farmer's market and some other places. We had a great day roaming the St louis downtown area too, listening to music and walking all the way.
Bye Bye Chetan, Jay and Sandeep:
Then soon Chetan, Jay and Sandeep left Edwardsville one after the other on different days. We had a great time hanging out together. We wished that we should have hung out like this during the past few years too.
Bye Bye Raju and Shruthi:
We had a get together with Raju the day before he left to India in his own style. Me, Sai, Shruthi, Hara and Raju who were left in edwardsvillle from our batch went to Pere Marquette State park in the eveninig and then while driving back from the park along the beautiful river bank we stopped at a restaurant which we never observed before and checked it out. It was called Fin Inn. It was a great looking restaurant with aquarium around the table having a variety of fishes which they serve and have it in the river. I and Hara had french fries and breadsticks while the others enjoyed various fish items which was inexpensive and good. After such a great get together the next day Raju left with some of my stuff which I gave to him to take it to India and the in a few days Shruthi left.
Bye Bye Hara:
Now only Me, Sai and Hara were left and we enjoyed the school to the fullest by going to the cougar lake boating with some new friends and then one day Hara came and told that he is leaving today and flew away, very short notice. I didnt even realize that he was leaving edwardsville or leaving to some place for fun. Now only me and Sai are left in Edwardsville.
When will we meet agian?
We will be having a great get together again in December probably, when some of them come back to take their graduation walk and then again in India Night 2009.
There was a lot of talk about our get together when we had them. People kept talking that it was crazy to have get together almost every day but what can we do we just like hanging out with each other so much.
Miss You all, guys!
