Memorable Day of my Life

This is one incident which happened during Diwali last year. It is still vivid in front of my eyes. My papa was here and we decided to celebrate the Diwali in my village with my Dadi. My father is in army as I had mentioned earlier, our ancestors were farmers, so there was the blood of farmer still in him.

So finally the day came when we were at our village and I in particular was very happy because I was here after three years. I was a wonderful morning and from morning itself I was very excited to go to Farm. I was insisting my father but he was busy in something else.

Finally in the afternoon me and my sister's, after taking permission from my Dadi, started our journey towards the farms which we refer to as “Khoti Wale khate” . Our farms were near the river and there were lots of monkeys there. As we were passing by many of them looked at us like aliens. We were really enjoying ourselves. But this happiness was not long lasting. As I reached the farms there, my feet started to tremble. I was numb suddenly and my sister wondered what was the reason.

As I looked across our fields were flooded with water. The rice plants were dry and were ready to be cut. Papa had decided to commence the cutting on Monday, the day after Diwali. I felt sad for my papa and Dadi(grand mom) as they did work hard on this for six months. We decided to go back call papa but it would rather be late. So we both decided to do something ourselves. As I entered the field it was knee there was knee deep water and as our fields were at lower level, the water was rushing in at a great pressure. Near to our fields some ladies were working, I asked a shovel from them and tried to put mud on the point where water was entering. But the water was gushing in with lot of pressure. A boy who was working in the field nearby helped us and somehow we succeeded. Papa arrived at the scene after thirty minutes and he put some mud and wood to prevent any further leakage that could happen.

Our clothes were fully wet but it was really adventurous. Papa said “I am proud of my daughters”. I also got hurt near my eyes during this but was satisfied.

In the evening we all celebrated Diwali.