Night before journey - changing plans every hour

Our plans changed from A to D in sequence like below.

Plan A: We were supposed to get box to us by 2:00 PM before the journey day and so we can decorate the train. For some reason or other, station master did not handover it. There were so many reasons. Balaji, me and Kiran garu already have decided the content on the posters. Vardhini garu from Lok Satta media department made templates in adobe photo shop for us. We do not know the dimensions of the box we are going to get, and so did not order yet. There were two kinds of boxes. We are also not sure whether we are going to get last bogey. Govind, Balaji, Devi Prasad, Ramesh and me went to train station around 3PM to get idea of different boxes so that we can make posters that can fit on any train. We took a scale with us and measured dimensions of bogey and windows. We drew layout of posters and their sizes. We called poster makers that work with Lok Satta office who are sympathetic to party and give better deals.

Plan B: We had volunteers meet at 6PM. Original plan was that few of us could go to station after the meet and decorate train. According to new plan, Balaji collects posters and go to station. Kiran garu goes to station and talks to station master in getting train. He would call us as soon as he gets it. Ratnam and few more of us would wait at office for his call and bring pamphlets, material and other posters. Praddep and Govind would come to station around 12PM and sleep in train after decoration.

I was checking my list for any missing things or any other things we need to cover. I wrote down phone numbers of all volunteers and collected few other trusted people's names for backup plans. I thought of three new things that I missed earlier.
- Artists or singers for entertainment in train. Ratnam garu took it and told that he would call two of his drummer and singer friends.
- Water and snacks. Called Purna garu who is making media and food arrangements. He lives nearby my house and so he suggested he would buy some fruits and snacks and we two could take them in the morning.
- Seating arrangement in train. Subbu and me opened a doc and prepared pages like "Volunteers", "Media", "JP's desk" and "Mahila Satta" and took printouts. Subbu was not coming tomorrow, but he noticed our anxiety and was nice enough to stay awake all night and help me.

We keep hearing so many reasons and updates from station master, train did not reach, platform is not decided, you need approval, we can only give four hours before journey etc. It became 2AM. All of our parents kept calling. Mogulaih garu and others were also working at office doing their own work like preparing JP's return journey, collecting some material JP asked them etc. Balaji did not get posters yet, as they need to be dried.

Plan C:Kiran garu told that he would get train only at 4:30 AM and asked us to come at that time. So we changed plans again. Kiran garu, Balaji and other people sleep at his house, as it is near to station. Subbu and me would go to my house and come to station directly in the monring along with Purna garu. Then we realized that media room people locked and left for the day without keeping needed manuals and material outside. They keep it locked since it involves money and they need accounting. We found small sunroof kind of thing for that room and had to climb a wall with great difficulty to get our bags out. Since we have lot of things to take station (posters, material, flags etc.), it does not make sense to take all of them to my house and bringing back in morning.

Plan D: Subbu and me reached my house at 3 A.M. and went to bed as soon as we could. By the time I got little sleep, it was 4:30 A.M. and my mother woke us up and also alarm started ringing. We called Purna garu and picked him and his luggage at Yousuf guda, reached office, collected all material, picked cameraman Sanjeev and his equipment and reached station. We were able to reach station around 5:30 in two autos. People were already waiting for us for material. Some people took ugly gum in their hands, some took job of unwrapping posters and some people tied the flags. I was monitoring everything so that decoration and layout on both sides of train look exactly similar. We were able to complete by 6 A.M. and we were sweating though it was cool weather. Exactly at the moment, we started hearing "Lok Satta Zindabad" and around 500 people led by several leaders like Katari garu and M.L.A. hopefuls were entering station to give Dr. JP farewell.