17)Republic Day parade: Before a dance to remember long rehearsals little sleep
India Republic Day -- With all the Prime Minister and the Us president in the audience 14-year-old Daksh Chopra couldnt have required a better stage to dance on. A student of Rohinis Mount Abu school having been one of the 150 students who have performed at the Rajpath about Republic Day. Dressed in brilliantly colored attire and sporting buns plaits and parted curly hair the children put up a show representing the 10-member international locations of ASEAN whose leaders too were in attendan ce. We were divided into groups and each group did a new dance form of one of the ten ASEAN countries. I was from the Vietnam group and we does a fan dance. In December we researched on the dance saw videos and then devised a new choreography said Nandini Madhukar (14). It was throughout mid-December that the students aged between 12 and 12 began rehearsing for the performance. They spent the night at school on Thursday had an evening meal there got ready and also reached Rajpath at 8 am on Fr