Sunday, May 04, 2008
An activity play-school
Bal Bhavan is in Campal (Panjim). It takes half-an-hour to get there.
I have joined clay modelling and guitar classes. And creative writing.
My brother calls it Bal Bum-bum, because he cannot pronounce it properly. He is four years old.
Looking forward to the church camp
Aren's math talk
Evenings at the swimming pool
Aren at our small pool (not Vista do Rio).
Uncle Caje, my mother, my brother, Isabel and me all go to the swimming pool in the evening. The pool's name is Vista do Rio.
We go there at 4 o'clock and finish by 6.30.
The pool is in Porvorim. A girl named Monali from the same building where Isabel lives comes to the swimming pool with her father.
We all swim together. We swim in the big pool. We throw a one-rupee coin in the water, then we dive in and find the coin. Whoever finds the coin first is the winner. Isabel and me always find the coin. A girl named Trisha also comes there.
My father says that the pool takes a lot of water from the village-sides ....
My Nana gets sick
Nana with Sharbelle (her schoolmate's daughter).
My grandmother's name is Felicia Coutinho Noronha. I call her Nana. She used to look after me, and take me to the convent. She liked me the best. I liked her very much.
But one day, she had a fall in the bathroom. We didn't know what happened. Then we took her to GMC Hospital and then they found out that her hip bone was broken.
She was supposed to have an operation, but it didn't happen. After a few days, she kept on getting sick. And more complications came up.
On April 21, 2008, she died at 3 o'clock in the morning. On that day was my admission. When I got up, my aunty and my grandfather were downstairs; my aunty was washing clothes.
On April 22, was her funeral, at 4 o'clock. We buried her at the Saligao cemetery. I felt sad.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
The Carnival: I went for it
In another float, there were two girls, one girl was had a lot of coloured feathers on her back, and the other had peacock feathers on her back.
After the Carnival we met aunty Grace [we call her Grace, she'll get annoyed] and Saachi, Shimmi, Shimron, mama and Aren.
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Saturday, February 02, 2008
Goans in Burmab
Frederick Noronha: Songs Of The Survivors
For a profile of FN click here.
Songs Of The Survivors is a collection of the memoirs of Goan survivors of Burma in the Second World War period. Cornel DaCosta in reviewing the new book writes: … there were parallels between those in Burma and those in East Africa, especially, in relation to religiosity and a measure of joviality and a fun culture largely within the community itself …
To read the review in full and for order details check out the special GVUK supplement. Click here.
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An evening at Agassiam (dada's title)
Renza was looking very pretty that day.
I went very close and clicked, and I got the photos which you can see over here. In the top photo, Renza's father and mother, bridesmaids and flowergirls are shown. In the African one, I couldn't go too close because I got scared. They were moving and I thought they would bang into me. They were taking a glass bottle on a stick, and dancing. They also did the fire-limbo, and guess what! They also allowed the children to do the fire-limbo. Abigail, Gabbie, and Delialah (my good friends who were there at the wedding) also joined the limbo.
But I didn't want to go. I got scared.
My friend Abigail told me that it was stinking of kerosene. I am glad that I went for the wedding. I had a good time. My uncle and aunty, Ricky and Clare, had come also.
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Pranita and me: good friends
Pranita (the girl to the right) is Pranita. She comes to play every day in the Convent. We have lot of fun together.
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A lovely place to visit [title by Dada]
This is the Saturday Nite Bazaar. In these two photos, the first photo shows some handicrafts and the second shows some keychains.
My friend Isabel took me to the Saturday Nite Bazaar with her father, Uncle Caje, and my father, with my little brother. The second time, we went with my father's friends, Dr Alan Story and a Brazilian lady. There are all pretty things in the Saturday Nite Bazaar. The best thing I liked was the magnifying glass. But my parents told me not to buy it, because we have a smaller one at home. I clicked these photos with my camera and I hope you like them very much.
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Funny little boy
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Little-est Pet Shop
Littlest Pet Shop is made in China. I think the people in China are very talented. They make most of the toys and I like the toys. Littlest Pet Shop are my favourite toys. I collected 11 of them. But I wish I had all.
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The baby laptop
This is the baby computer. I went to see it in the Science Centre. I thought it would be very small. But actually it was not that small. A girl named Rut brought the baby laptop from Denmark and showed it to all the people who had come for the [GNU]Linux meeting. She also let all of us play with it.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Disney princesses
There are some dolls called Disney Princesses. The Americans made them. There are eight of them. Their names are Aeriel, Pocohauntes, Jasmine, Belle, Arora, Cinderella, Snow-White and Mulan.
I'll give you the information of my favourite one. Her name is Belle.
I like Belle because she has long hair and her hair is soft and pretty...
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I FOUND CHIP!!!
seen something cream coloured before, but I thought that was a snake's egg, because there are many snakes in our [village] fields.
Grandpa said, "There it is." So Aren took his hand and pulled out my dog and said, "I found it."
When he gave it to me, I was very happy. I kissed him and hugged him, because he had found my dog and I like Chip very much, better than my two new dogs. I mentioned my two new dogs in my earlier blog, on November 16, 2007... so you'll find the picture there.
Aren, one day, had thrown Chip in the field, when we were cycling. I went into the field, and could not find it. My grandmother said, "Aren threw it, and Aren found it." He is also a very bad boy sometimes. Ehhe... right now he's pulling my hair and banging me.
He just now asked, "Where are we going?" So daddy replied and told him, "To sleep."
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In The Morning
It's happy and gay
The birds are singing
To each other
In the morning
It's nice and peaceful
The children are playing
So come and join us
Let's have some fun
Today
["It's a song. That's why it has no rhyme."]
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Friday, November 16, 2007
My new dogs
I had another dog before this; it was a bulldog called Chip.
My brother took it and threw it in the field one day, on October 11 (or something) ... can't be, it was after my birthday. Maybe in November. We had just finished cycling, and we were going to put our cycles away. I parked my cycle there, to have a drink of water. When I came out, I saw my brother... he just took it and threw it in the field. I was very angry and sad. I saw two lizzards in the field before that, and after that I saw five... so that's why I couldn't get it from the field. It was also very busy there, and we might be snakes.
These are not real dogs, they're just toy dogs. And my brother had a toy spider, a purple coloured one. He broke its head, and now we only have the body and don't know where the head is gone... Hehehehehe...
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My little tooth
Dentists actually hurt people, but this dentist was a good person. In comics they show that dentists pull children's teeth and they (the children) scream 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh' like pigs. But that's not true. Some dentists are nice and very kind.
My earlier doctor that I used to go to was Dr Colin [Viegas]. He too was a nice doctor, and used to talk very kindly. When he finished doing the work, he used to give me a toy. That's all folks. Hahaha, blogging is fun.
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The Adventures of Tintin
Once Tintin helped a captain by getting him out of his own ship, because the people who were working for him were betraying him. Tintin is a very nice movie and a lot of fun to watch.
'The Craw With the Gold Claws' is about this: Tintin was passing by, and there were two bad people who wanted to capture him. There were also two policemen, named Thomson and Thompson, who went into the bad people's ship, which they were inspecting. Afterwards, they came out of the ship. They asked where was Tintin. One man said he had already left. They were surprised that Tintin left without them. At the end, there was a guy selling some liquors to somebody else. Tintin wanted to find out. When the captain was rescued by Tintin, they cancelled that name and put some other name on the ship. That's how Tintin recognised the ship.
In 'The Secret of the Unicon', there was a lovely ship to be sold. Tintin bought the ship. There were two other men who wanted to buy the ship. They asked Tintin, "Could we buy the ship." The end part is when the man in the blue, who wanted to buy the ship, killed the other guy who fainted. There were two thieves who wanted a ticket in the ship. And at the end, that man would not tell him, so they shooted him. Tintin went inside and caught the thieves. The captain and Tintin saved the three tickets.
{So much I wrote, when I didn't know anything?}
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Tuesday, November 06, 2007
At Babaji's
I asked her what it was. She replied and said, that that was a game-boy.
She had lot of games to play with it. I also asked her which was her favourite toy; she said the game-boy itself was her favourite toy.
Then, I took out my puzzles and I asked her, which one did she want to choose: Tinker-belle or Pooh-Bear. She took Tinker-belle.
We decided to have a Frankie to eat. The Frankie is a roti outside with chicken in.
I had gone with my father to Mapusa to this restaurant, because my father had a meeting there. In the meeting, there was Aunty Hazel, Uncle Cecil, Aunty Yma, Aunty Arlette, Uncle Minguel and my father.
We played with the puzzle. I finished the puzzle before her (Ayesha). She also told me that she was not very good in puzzles... but actually she was. When I was small also, I also was not very good in puzzles; now I'm okay... not that good.
We played a lot, and when it was time to go we were very sad, because we wanted to play more. We also played with our parents' mobiles. Ayesha liked my father's mobile.... that's all.
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Games and fun
[Above, Shimron (with tongue out) and Shimmi.]
On my birthday (October 16), we had four games to play. The names are Simple Simon Says, Musical Chairs, Bombing The City and Passing the Parcel. We had lots of fun.
Twenty-one children had come. Isabel, Abigail, Shimron, Shimmy, and Gabby and others.
The snacks were croquets, French fries, cocktail sausages, popcorn, and cake. My cake was in the shape of a rectangle. It was a Black Forest cake.
My mother helped to make my birthday, and my grandmother, so did Mangal. And my brother and me. And my father also. My grandfather also helped so much.
[All my friends, near the swing. The girl who's climbing is Saatchi, and Isable is in the black tee-shirt.]
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Aren gets wet
I asked him, "Aren, how did you get wet."
He said, "My cardboard was out in the rain, so I went to pick it up. Because it was so big, I couldn't carry it and I also get wet."
I called my daddy, and he came and said, "Aren, what were you doing?" (sternly) "Go and change."
He changed his clothes, and put on dry clothes. But the cardboard-box is still wet.
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The mystery of the red numbers
My friend in school, Cheryl, told me about red numbers. That they can phone you up on your mobile, and then you get a shock, and you can die.
They say that many people have died like that, but it's not true.
I tried to call on the number, but the recorded message told me, "Please check the number you have dialled. This number is not available."
My Daddy read the newspaper for me. They say that it's not true what the people are telling.
rIn my class many children were telling me that. One boy called Alister was saying that some people gave him a call, but he didn't pick it up, because it's that number. But I don't believe him.
There's one girl called Vrkushanda told me that those people phoned a doctor, and he died some days ago. Another girl, Sneha, said it is really true. They can call on the mobile, but not on the phone.
I believe that they are talking all rubbish.
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The Harry Potter movie
On Saturday, my mother and me went for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie at Inox. It was nice. For snack time, I bought Nachos and a bottle of water to drink. My mother and me shared the Nachos and the water.
In the movie, it was about Valdermoth, who builds up an army. Harry Potter wants to fight. He takes his friends with him. Their names are Ron, Hermoine, Ginny, Neville, and there was another girl with goldish hair, whose name I don't know. She is just like Harry Potter. She lived where some creatures were.
Only the people who had seen death could see those cratures. She had seen her mother die. So she and Harry could see the creatures. Harry had also seen people dying from his family.
Then, in another part of the movie, there's a Chinese girl called Cho Cha. She told the bad principal, who threw Dumbledore out of the school and made him leave to Askerban. She was troubling all of them. Cho Cha liked her. They forced Cho Cha to tell. So Cho Cha told the secret hideout where they were practising their spells.
In the other part of the movied Hagrid had a step-brother, and that brother was a giant. A full giant. Hagrid was a half-giant.
The movie was fun. I liked it very much. I saw this movie when I was two-and-a-half...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Aren's sticker book
Aren has different stickers in his sticker-book. I'll name all the stickers. There's a whale, a shark, a sea-walrus, a seal, a dolphin, a hammer-head shark, a hump-back whale, and others of the fish ones. There's also a princess, there's Mickey with Minnie, there's a small cutie (a small sticker of some cute teddy bears in Australia, I call those cuties), and there is a Jesus cross and a bird, and there are others.
In my sticker book, it's very full, because I started mine a long time ago. He started his some days ago. His sticker book is green with a pussycat on top, a Hello Kitty cat, you can see it on the computer. On mine is the dog. Mine is from England. My aunty brought it for me, her name is Aunty Cissy.
Aren's book is from Goa, it's from the supermarket, and Mama brought it for him. We like our stickerbooks very much. I take my stickerbook whereever I go, including to church and to school. My brother doesn't take his sticker book everywhere -- he's not so stuck with it.
I exchange stickers, including with my class-friend Gitam, with Abi, Gabi and Heidi. They are my friends.
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Aren's drawings...
"Grandpa teaches me to draw," he said. "I like to draw technical things. I want to become a rocket and a train engineer," he said. "I like to draw an eel very much."
I think he draws well. I find his drawings very cute.
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My new friend
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Friday, June 15, 2007
My brother's going to Lourdes Convent
My brother is in KGI(A). Teacher Virginia is his class teacher. They learn songs and they do other things.
My and my friend Saachi (she has two sisters that are in KGII B) we all go to see them. Her sisters are Shimron and Shimmy. When we go to see Shimron and Shimmy, they get disturbed because they're always doing their studies. So their teacher tells us to go away.
When we go to see Aren, the door is always closed, the windows are closed sometimes. Today the window was open, and yesterday the window was closed.
There's one girl called Theresa, and her sister is in KGI (B). Her sister's name is Eunicia.
So, Theresa went to see her, and called her, "Eunicia, Eunicia." And one other small girl was looking at Theresa. Theresa told the small girl to call Eunicia. Eunicia didn't know who was there, and she saw her afterwards. Theresa was screaming, "E-u-n-i-c-i-a, E-u-n-i-c-i-a." And when she saw her, she became more sad, and she burst out into tears. Because she misses her parents and Theresa. When she sees Theresa, she thinks of her parents and home.
In my class, when I was in the KG, no children used to cry. They used to all be good. Only Jorge used to cry, because he was new. He had come from America, and it was the first time being in the school. He had not joined from nursery, but joined from KG II.
I'm the leader for the primary section. I have to stop children from running in the corridor, and I have to make them go quietely, without running, to go home. Our school is brown-and-yellow in colour. It has three floors. It has a ground floor, with all the big children's (secondary) classes. The first floor is the chapel (and where all the sisters live). The second floor is the primary section. At the side is the KG. Where the primary section is, at the right, is the teachers' library. There's also a children's library.
We also have a computer hall, and a basketball court, and a park.
We have a little pond (a little lake-like thing) where there's a wall, where you can go. But we cannot go, because it's surrounded by water, and there are fishes. There is one lotus, and it's purple colour.
Aren says that he likes his class-teacher very much. His class teacher has three daughters, named Leander, Lorraine and Lillian.
Her husband, Uncle Henry, died recently. When I was a small girl, I was going with my daddy on the cycle, and we saw him. And I was eating leaves. My daddy had not seen that I was eating the leaves; he didn't know. When my daddy came to know, he grabbed them and threw them out. But by that time I brought up, and Uncle Henry saw what was happening. He was very surprised and said, "You're giving your daughter leaves to eat."
I was eating the leaves because I was feeling hungry, and I didn't know to tell. Sometimes I would just eat whatever I found, sometimes I would just cry for chocolates, otherwise I would bite my waterbottle. At this time I was two-and-a-half and my daddy used to take me for cycle rides. We had a bike, but in the evening or morning or afternoon we would go by cycle. Air is not so costly, but petrol is very costly.
Cycling is good because it's exercise, to lose weight.
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Du'bunk....
We went for a walk in the evening... in the rain. My friend, my grandfather and my brother were with me. My friend, me and my brother went to the convent chapel to pray. I prayed, but my friend (Sachi) and my brother didn't pray.
Then, when were coming back, Sachi was carrying Aren. And du'bunk... they fell.
They fell in the water near the steps. The corridor steps.
Sachi was carrying Aren, and she was wearing crocodile slippers... the slippery slippers. So she slipped with him! He said he got hurt on his b*m. Sachi got hurt on her leg.
After he went home, he said, it didn't pain. But it was not paining.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Train-geneer
Aren wants to be come a train-geneer. Train-geneer means people who repair trains, Aren says.
Aren told me, "I want to look after the trains. I will fix up the engines. I will on the Konkani Railway ... Konkan Railway."
I am back to school
I like to go back to school. I am in the fourth standard, and my new class is fun. My teacher's name is teacher Savia.
Yesterday was my first day. It was Monday. There was no rain on Monday. I have many friends. My partner's name is Anagha. Now I got a new partner. It's a boy; his name is ... I forgot.
Partner means a girl or a boy who sits besides you, and helps you. But normally we have our own games; the girls have their own games, and the boys have their own games.
In my third standards, the girls used to play many types of games. But the boys used to play lock-and-key, or catching cook. Now we didn't start playing as yet.
My class is joined to the other class. Our door leads to the same door. The other class is Fourth Standard Zuyo, and mine is Fourth Standard Zayo. Zayo means little flower, and zuyo also means little flower. They are two names of classes, like how you have 'A' and 'B' . It's like that till the fourth. In the fifth (standard), they have A and B. In the first-to-fourth it's Konkani (medium), so they have Konkani names.
Aren also goes to school, to Lourdes Convent. He is in KGI(B). No, KGI(A). In Teacher Virginia's class.
Saturday, June 02, 2007
My visit to Aldona
I went to Aldona on May 30, 2007 (Wednesday). There are all big houses in Aldona. There are rivers and all. From here, it is 30 kilometres, yeah dada? Maybe less. Or maybe more.
I saw a river, and there were four canoes. Two were broken, and two were okay. Aren was troubling daddy to go in the canoe, and daddy was taking photos.
Before that, we went to the market, and we stopped at the 'tea shop'. Niyati had nothing; my dad had a tea and a laddoo. Aren had half a laddoo; I had half a laddoo, and Mountain Dew (a fizzy drink, like Coke and all).
After that, we saw a statue of one teacher. He used to teach the high-school boys. He was very nice to them, and they liked him very much, so in remembrance they put a statue.
We also passed the boys' high school. We went in one lane (on the right side), and then we saw one house. It was maroon and yellow, and after that, we went to Niyati's house.
They had one dog. The dog's name is ... I cannot remember, it's on the tip of my tongue, I'll tell you later.
There was another dog. The other dog's name was Rudy. He was a puppy, he was three months old, he was brown colour, and had lovely-fluffy-hairy ears, and he was playing catching-cook with me. He was just chasing me all over, even when I was eating... specially when I was eating.
Niyati's mother cooked the food. I ate rice and dal, and some tomato, and chicken, and two nice and red-inside guavas. I ate some banana chips. There was also some pork and it was lippery. It came like lipstick on the lips (as you ate it). [Laughing] I don't like pork , beef or mutton or chicken lollypops (except garlic chicken lollypops), because they have some fat. I liked the other food also, but I liked the gauvas and the dal the best. There was spinach curry too.
We had a lot of fun in their house. We watched Jungle Book II.
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Aren is learning to draw
Aren drew a drawing. Aren drew a crab, and a eel. I drew a sea-horse, and Aren coloured the sea-horse. Aren drew the crab, and he coloured it. Daddy drew two crabs, that Aren coloured.
Aren likes to draw with me. I help him to draw with his drawings.
He likes to draw mostly fishes, crabs and boats. Because he likes the beach very much, he likes to swim. He likes crabs very much. He likes to eat crabs also very much. And now he's saying, "Those are the squiggly-wiggly worms."
He's going to become a computer engineer when he grows up. When I grow up, I would like to be an artist, because I like drawing very much. Aren wants me to become an architect. Now he's asking me, "Are you going to become an architect", and he's jumping on me.
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
The rain has come ...
Today morning it rained near my house, and in the whole village. I saw that it rained at 9.30 a.m. At that time, I had just got up, and I dressed and I went to play in the rain -- on the road near my house. With an umbrella. Later, in my garden, I was playing without an umbrella.
It was so cool and nice. It was cool because all the rain had just gone, and cool air came. All the tap water was cold. Otherwise, usually, the tap water is not too cold and not too warm.
In the summer season, it's very hot, because there's a lot of sun. The taps are not cold in summer. In the summer, there is a shortage of water, just before the rain. And then, when the rains come, the water becomes a lot again... because we fill in our buckets and in the well also.
The rainy season gives us a lot of water, and makes the air cool. The beach gets wet, and a lot of big waves come. In the rain, you have to use an umbrella. When there are small showers you have to use an umbrella. When it rains heavily, you have to use a raincoat. And when it rains really, really heavily you have to use a raincoat and an umbrella.
I went in the rain with my brother, and we were playing in the rain outside the house. My father made a small paper-boat for Aren.
There were a few transparent clouds in the sky. It rained till 3.30 p.m. First it started to be light, then it started increasing. It was not a lot, but quite a lot.
I saw some puddles all over on the road, where there were potholes. My brother called it "piggy puddles" because piggies are quite dirty, and he must have thought a pig must have gone in and made all that dirt.
The top photo is about (a place) close to the beach when it's going to rain, and that's why it's very cloudy. It's not this year's photos. It's of 2005 or 2006. The below photo, that's my home and that's the roof of my home and all the trees across the road, and that's the big field. There's all water collected because, when the farmers work, the mud sticks there, and it doesn't give way for the water to go out. The water gets stucks. Even near my road, there's a ditch and the water wants to go down the ditch, but there's some mud which won't let the water go. My grandfather says there's going to be a flood of mud.
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I am going back to school
My school re-opens on June 04, 2007. I am happy to go back to school. I got to go and try my uniform. My brother is going to KG I, and I am going to Std IV.
I didn't do very well in Maths. In English, I did well. In EVS also I did well, and in Konkani.
In my results, for the first test, I got "You did well" (Tuven borem kele), second test I also got (Tuven borem kele). In the third test, I got Tuven khub abhyas korunk zai (you have to do a lot of studies). And in the fourth test, I got, "Tuven ganitant abhyas korunk zai" (You have to study better in Maths).
Next year, I'm going to study well in all my subjects. I think my mummy might get a tuition teacher, or I'll study by myself with a little help from my father. My mother, grandfather or grandmother will teach my brother. I have to go to school early; his school starts at 9, so he has to be there at 8.30. I will go first at 7, and then my mother will bring him to school.
Many children go to school in the junior classes (like KG I and KG II), go to school at 9 o'clock. So I too had the same problem. When I had to go to Std I, it was my habit to get up late, at 8.30 am. Now I get up at 7 a.m. In the coming year, I will get up at 6.30 a.m., because I have to go to school in the morning. In the fourth standard, you have to go early, to see what is not completed, and give your books for correction. On the first day, you can come a little late... but on the first day itself, I'll go more early.
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Sunday, May 20, 2007
My cousins' calendar
My cousins' names are Josh, Craig and Daniel. Josh is six years old. Craig is four years, and Daniel is one year old.
They live in America. They made a calendar for their grandmother. They made a calendar of 2006, and I brought it to Goa (from Bombay).
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The jackfruit
My neighbours have a jackfruit tree. This year, the tree gave 48 jackfruits. My best fruits' names are gauva, jackfruits, strawberries, and others.
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