ONE DAY !

A set of 6 girls set out of their houses that day believing this was just another market survey for #SEM2016 . The team had no idea what that day had in store for them . We all knew the place to visit today was at the corner of the city . But who knew it was way beyond even the outskirts into to the rural and remote location of Uttar Pradesh. An hour and half of metro ride with thousands of people stuffed in the coaches , we breathed  some fresh air at the last station . Crossing that over bridge we asked the local rickshaw drivers to take us to the address we were given. " 30 Kms , madam . That place is this far off from here ", he exclaimed , literally scaring each one of us . For minutes , we kept hovering around asking the bus drivers and explaining them where exactly we had to be that day . There we stood in a circle facing each other , talking to one another with our eyes . And then courage propped in out of no where and one of us just headed into the bus. And all followed her lead saying to themselves, lets just do this . After all its for our love IRIS !

What lay ahead of us was 45 minutes of a typical local rural Indian bus journey that we all had just seen in movies till date . Traffic, the heat , hurly burly of a crowdy city slowly losing itself to the silence of a highway and us trying to be bold with our eyes fixated on finding that one landmark we were told of. Well, we did reach the landmark but not our destination. A walk of another kilometer and half from the place that bus dropped us and our eyes widened when we saw the place that we were longing to see for around 3 hours now.

What lay ahead of us , changed our entire game plan and course of action for #SEM2016. Two hours of talks about engines and its modifications . And every Kilometraj Ninya enjoyed that conversation that centered around fuel economy, mileage testing , fuel injection system .

When we left that place , a silent 1.5 Km long walk back to the main road followed us with ideas doing all the talking .
Team meeting !
We need a team meeting !
Calls were made to the ones who were out in another corner of city working on something else .
A third end of the city had to be chosen to meet , discuss and talk about the recent developments.
Each one of us did something they never thought they would do in there entire lives. From sitting on the metro floors , jumping on understanding a concept you dozed off on while studying last night , not feeling weird about shelling out your McLaren P1 fantasy out loud to others or working non stop for 15 hours straight and not feeling tired.
The adrenaline rush ! The dream to drive the car that we are building on the circuit.
Not letting anything bring you down in true sense. The rains, the heat, the distance, the tiredness , the pressure of starting everything from scratch , the effort that will have to be given to understand things from a new angle and perspective .
Coming back to the story of that day again. The team met at the platform in the third edge of the city , sat on the ground and discussed each and every aspect that had to be taken care of before going about changing the entire course of action . Voicing one's opinion , positively criticizing  the opinions to get the best out of this brain storming session
Ah ! That day a team was born in true sense after six months of working together . The beauty of that day was just a glimpse of what lay ahead of us .
Its not about the destination  , its always been about the journey and the people who are with you in this journey.


The things we do for IRIS because we are Kilometraj Ninyas !