The Valley of Divine Peace

This is the picture of the BaRu Sahib campus from one of our hiking trips. We stayed there for a month.

All the campers with teachers and Guests

This one is at the steps of Darbar Sahib on the opening day. You can see all the campers, teachers and the chief guests as well as Baba Iqbal Singh Ji.

The 4th in India

Most of the campers were from the U.S.A and the openening day happened to be the 4th of July. So we had officers from American Embassy visit us as Chief Guests and at the end of the opening ceremony we all sang the U.S. National Anthem followed by fireworks. (The opening ceremony started with Gatka).

The classroom

These are our Sikh History classes. We did an hour of history each day.

Learning the music

Learning to play the shabads. I leant some beautiful shabads at the camp. My partner was Dashmeet Singh (also from Atlanta). I enjoyed learning from some wonderful teachers. Most teachers were the previous students of Akal Academy.

The 'Mess Hall'

This is our mess where we ate most of our meals. The food was pretty simple and 100% vegetarian. I wish there were more fruits though. I strictly go by t he vegetarian food pyramid i.e 5 servings of fruit a day.

ps: Mess - A group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, who regularly eat meals together. Food or a meal served to such a group: took mess with the enlistees. A mess hall.

My teacher and me

There was a lot of learning at the camp. We learnt Santhya - The correct pronunciation of the Gurbani. We read almost 4-6 hours a day.

Big Boys with bigger agenda

Big boys classroom. They talked about some more recent history and current issues. Some big boys really liked the camp and Sikhi way of life and decided to keep their Kes.

Ardas before gatka

These are the boys from the Gurmat Vidyala in Akal academy. They focus on Gurmat education and Gatka. They were so good; you wouldn't believe your eyes when they swung those weapons.

I LOVE GATKA!!!!!!!!!

Gatka was my favorite thing to learn at the camp. I wish we had Gatka lessons in Atlanta and can practice it more often. I LOVE GATKA!!!!!!!!

Veer Ras

We learnt and recited some beautiful poems related to the history.

Langar Time

Boys eating in the Langar hall.

Ardaas , Waheguru !

We did our morning and evening Baanis at the Darbaar Sahib everday.
One of the things I learnt at the camp was to do the long Ardaas. This is me doing the Ardaas sewa.

Atul - The Immeasurable ones

This picture is from the Quiz competition. Our team was called the ‘Atul’ meaning incomparable or immeasurable. The others were Ajay (unbeatable), Abhay (fearless), and Amul (Priceless) (names from Jaap Sahib). Can you guess who won the first place ? ;-).

This is not all. There are more fun pictures. Please click on August Archives on top right of the page.