It was Saturday evening when Shweta called to inform me that Portfolio for RMIT Scholarship is to be submitted by Monday morning. Next 36 hours I spend in making the portfolio from scratch. Monday morning submitted the portfolio to Uma ben. That was the beginning of my RMIT journey.
The result was out and I, Mekhala and Shweta got selected from our class. Praveen (co coordinator product design) mailed all the briefs to select, but I was always in favor of project diabetes so I went ahead with the same.
After finishing the prolonged jury time, we all started with the hectic visa process.
The uncertainty was till the last moment. Everyone was unsure whether, he is going to get visa or not. Every morning calling high commission office for update and bugging Catherine was our daily routine. This got over just two days before date of departure.
Meanwhile I finished with all my incompletes and diploma registration. Now everything was set to leave.
I returned to Pune and spend two days there with my parents. Done the money exchange, exchanged Rs.22, 000/- for just five notes in Australian currency. New bag was full of cloths, winter ware.
Sunday evening left to Shweta’s sister’s place in kharghar, place in New Mumbai. Parents were happy but worried for their son. This was the first time when somebody was going out of the country for studies from our family. One could easily make out how proud they were feeling. Bus started to kharghar at 6.00 pm.
I reached around 10 pm to kharghar, Shweta’s sister and Shweta came to pick me up. I got freshened up, had dinner and nice talk with shweta’s parents, kept shweta’s extra luggage in my bag as I had enough space in my luggage.
Next day early morning we started for Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai. We were doubtful about road network and traffic jams of Mumbai, but reached in time.
This was my second flying experience. I kept watching outside the window for the whole journey saw beautiful clouds. The airplane wing was vanishing into the indefinite blue.
