India Trip XV

The performance at the oldage home went pretty well. Before and After the performance people praised me and gave advice to me. It was very fun. Then after the performance my parents and I went to visit the old peoples' houses/rooms. Then we went to eat. For some reason when we went to eat and after I ate, my tummy hurt when I stood straight. So later on I could not have the privilege of enjoying seeing everything. When we reached home, I realized I actually had a high fever.....

India Trip XIV

Anyway, after that place we travelled so many places that I was too exhausted to memorise their names. hehehe :P When we returned, it was daytime so my grandparents settled down to their daily routines and I worked on math problems from my mathbook online. As the few days left flew by, I relaxed and also prepared for the performance on the 22nd...

India Trip XIII

After we left that place, we went to Kanyakumari. There is a beautiful statue of a tamil poet in the waters. Three different bodies of water merge at one point in that ocean. The Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the Indian Ocean. Also, there is a temple on a big humongous rock at which once a famous chief India disciple, Swami Vivekananda swam across the ocean to meditate on the rock. It was very beautiful. But we only stayed there for 1 and a half days. As long as you know swimming, it is not hard to swim across the waters in India because it's warm...

Breakthrough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everybody got their schedules and we are comparing them. I got some pretty good teachers except I don't know how DeRose is, but my science teacher Bonnacorsi is said to be strict. Some of my friends got him/her for science during my school's academy. Two of my teachers require separate folders/binders. I just got folders because it will be tough to carry 3 binders. On the first day, all we have to bring to school is a binder with supplies that we were provided with and given a checklist at my school's academy. That evening, will be Back-To-School-Night. That day we have to carry our binder and 4 other textbooks.... Ungh!!!!!1

India Trip XII

Brain Builders: There is a two and three-quarters year old in 6th grade. Why is this?

When I went there to the ceremony thing I was pretty much excited! But those cousins weren't all nice to me. Like I said, they acted as if I wasn't even related to them. When I went for dinner, they kind of ignored me. All I think it was, was that I was two years younger than them and I wasn't a very close relative to them. Then after dinner, they decided they shouldn't ignore me totally, so they took me into one of the A.C. rooms and told me to sing for them. Then, they started praising me. I had a feeling they were being sarcastic. Then they randomly had one of them standing outside and two of us screaming inside the room and saw if the person outside of the room could hear the people inside...

Facebook

1st grade Teacher: Tell me one compound word.
Student (raises hand)
Teacher: Yes, Emily.
Emily: Facebook

Facebook is a very well-known website that even little kids know its existence. But is Facebook a good website for immature kids? Maybe Facebook does not allow an inappropriate-aged kid to sign-up. But that won't stop them from signing up. I am not saying Facebook is totally bad to be on. It's ok to be there occasionally but not all the time. This might be one major problem why kids  in middle school and sometimes even in elementary, don't do well academically. I hope the parents have set a specific time at which their child could be online. Thank You!

Breakthrough and India Trip XI

Breakthrough: Today, we will be having a tour of the junior high and mark some significant places. Next year, there will be not 500, not 600, but 1,100 students all together 7th and 8th grade combined.

...(continuation of India Trip X) He was so cute, I did not wish to leave him. But the next day we had to leave for Trivandrum (Thiruananthapuram) for a ceremony called "Poonal." All brahmins have to wear this white string and this was a ceremony for a boy of 8 in my family, who was going to wear a poonal for the first time in his life. Anyway, that evening we arived, we took a bath in sacred waters where once a boy who is now a sage was bitten on the leg by a crocodile. In the water was many fish. It tickles you whenever it takes dirt off you. So it is kind of a natural bath. The fish take dirt off you if you stand in one place. Sadly because the place has now become a tourist spot, people have trashed the area. Anyway, the next morning, we left for Trivandrum in a train. This was during the day, so we did not sleep much. When we arrived, I was excited. This was the first time I would see a whole different part of my family I had never seen before. Strangely, they acted as if I were their friend instead of a cousin......