Doesn't time fly when you enjoy yourself?

In December, my mom's brother came with some friends from Delhi, Poona and Bombay. They all stayed in our family house which is in Nerul. (The house is my grandfather's father's house. So we share it between my grandfather's brothers and their families.)

They came on December 26, which was after Christmas.

So I met a friend over there, named Mary. She's originally from the USA, but she's an exchange student so she lives in Pune. She really likes to read, and she read to me some parts of her book which was interesting.

There was another girl called Kensey, who is from Bhutan, and she loves sports. She taught me how to make Bhutanese curry.

I went there on Dec 28 night, and stayed at the Nerul house.

On Dec 30, we went to Britto's for lunch, and to Baga beach for water sports. On Dec 31, we went for a walk on the Candolim-Baga road, and then to the beach. That night, we went to the Candolim beach for dinner, because it was going to be new year. When it was New Year, people were burning the old men, and firecrackers were being lit one after the other. There were a few lanterns which were being let up in the air, and it was a very beautiful sight.

It was an awesome feeling, because I just love celebrating New Year.

On the evening of Jan 1, I went to the Candolim beach. So far my New Year has been awesome. This year, I'm going to be 13, so I'm really excited.

On January 2, when we came back to school, my geography teacher Sister Cynthia asked us what our New Year's resolutions were. Not everyone in my class had made one, so she gave us two minutes to think about it. Students gave all types of New Year's resolutions. My New Year's resolution is to be nice to everyone, to be a better person in life, and to be more understanding.

And, at the end of this year, everyone in my class says that the world is going to end, but I don't believe that.

It's only opened on Saturday

On December 25, the Saturday Night Market opened after a long break due to the monsoons. The Saturday Night Market is in Arpora, and it's open only on Saturday nights, just like how on Friday we have the Mapusa market and on Wednesday we have the flea market.

The Saturday Night Market starts at 7 pm and ends at 1 am. But since it was Christmas, it started at 6.30 pm and ended at 2.30 am.

There are many shops there, and you get stuff from all different places -- Roman clothes, fur coats, real leather stuff. You also get high Roman shoes (like gladiators) and some really cool jewellery and trinklets (which my mom calls junk).

When I went to the Saturday Night Bazar, I met my friend from school, Merlyn. But I forgot to wish her a Happy Christmas.

Meeting my friends after 21 days

On November 22 [2010], my school reopened and I was really happy to see my friends. Everyone kept asking everyone else how their holidays had been, and how they all had been keeping.

We got to see some of our exam papers. On November 23, which was yesterday, we got a new Maths teacher. Her name is Vanessa D'Souza, and she's really sweet and kind. She explains everything so well -- each and every word actually.

On November 22, they told us that we are going to have a school picnic on November 27. We are to go to Bondla, a wildlife sanctuary about 70 kms from here. I already know that our picnic was to be at a wildlife sanctuary, because on our tour, a teacher asked Alphina to ask her father for some ideas of a good picnic spot, and he works in the Goa Forest Department.

A concert at Emerald Lawns

Just nine months ago, I jointed the Taught to Teach, which is a music school. It has three different branches, all in Goa -- in Mapusa, Porvorim and Bicholim.

Every year they have this concert at Emerald Lawns, a place where parties and weddings are held in Parra.

This year, we had a concert, and they placed me in a song. Its name is "Puun tuh mozo daddy" (based on the Konkani version of But You Love Me Daddy). We had to play in the band, so we couldn't look at papers or notes. We had to by-heart the song. At first, I thought it would be hard because I didn't know the words of the song in Konkani.

But my guitar teacher Gordon D'Souza told me that I only had to by-heart the first verse and the chorus. So that's what I did, and it got quite easy. (And my brother keeps on saying, "But Heidi's mike was not put on." Heidi was really angry about her mike not being put on.)

The concert was really nice. There were at least 40 items. It started at 5 pm and ended at 10 pm. I had school the next day. Of all the times, I liked a song called Holiday. My guitar teacher played it. It was basically Rock, and really cool.

I also liked another song played by a group of boys -- 11, 12 or 13 years old -- and all were playing on drums. They had separated the whole drum set, and were making different noises. The audience really liked that the best.

In my song, there was one drummer, three guitarists (I was the rhythm), three keyboards and two singers. One was the daddy and the other, the son. Not in real-life, just in the song.

HP is finally here...

On November 19, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released in Goa. Me and my friends went to Inox and watched the movie. It was really awesome. Two parts were 3-d (three dimension). One was when a snake came shooting out of the screen, and another was an evil teacher, who was Draco Malfoy's father, was flying on a broom and it crashed.

This is the plot of the story from the Wikipedia:
Throughout the six previous novels in the Harry Potter series, the main character, Harry Potter, has struggled with the inherent difficulties of adolescence along with being a famous wizard. When Harry was a baby, Lord Voldemort, a powerful evil wizard, murdered Harry's parents but mysteriously vanished after attempting to kill Harry. This results in Harry's immediate fame, and his being placed in the care of his muggle, or non-magical, relatives Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon.

Yippie, the IFFI is come finally

The IFFI is the International Film Festival of India.

My parents are journalists and have a journalism pass, so they can bring other people in with her. We (me and my little brother) are not allowed to watch any movies, because they are only for eighteen-and-above. But we get to see a lot of actors and actresses.

There's a band over there too.

Last year, we met Sunil Shetty, and I even got his autograph.

IFFI is always conducted in the month of November. It is only there for ten days.

The festival of lights in India

On November 5, we celebrated Diwali.

Diwali is known as the festival of lights.

Diwali (also spelled Devali in certain regions) or Deepavali,^[1] popularly known as the "festival of lights", is an important five-day festival in Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism, occurring between mid-October and mid-November. For Hindus, Diwali is the most important festival of the year and is celebrated in families by performing traditional activities together in their homes. Deepavali is an official holiday in India,^[2] Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mauritius, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Malaysia, Singapore, and Fiji. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwalihttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali

Children in our village make Narkasurs (monsters or evil creatures). They burn it on Diwali. Burning Narkasurs symbolises the destruction of evil.

In the village where I stay (Saligao), every Hindu house is lit up so beautifully. They hang akash divos (lanterns) and they also keep pontis (small clay lamps) and put rangoli designs all over the floor. Rangoli is a particular type of colour, which is used to decorate floors and make designs.

My school tour

Every year my school conducts an educational tour. We go to different places.

This is the second tour I'm going for with my school, since the fifth standard.

Last year, the tour was cancelled because of swine flu.

When I was in Standard V, we went to Bangalore, Chennai, Pondicherry and Mahabalipuram. Bangalore is a big city, where you can get lost. Chennai is a really big city according to me, and it's really dusty and there is a lot of garbage around.

Pondicherry is a really, really lovely place -- with so many things to see. For instance, Auroville (it has a huge golden dome structure, and at one time 3000 people can fit). Pondicherry has many beaches, like Goa, so I felt so nice.

Mahabalipuram has a lot of temples and statues and stuff.

As I said, when I was in the sixth standard, the tour was cancelled because of swine flu. This year I'm in the seventh standard (grade), and we have just arrived five days back from our tour.

This year we went to Agra, Delhi, Nainital and Corbette National Park.

I really, really, really liked Nainital. It was beautiful. The weather there was nice; it was really cold. We had a campfire and a party on the terrace of our hotel.

On the tour, we basically did sight-seeing, experiencing new things, and SHOPPING. Last year we learnt not to have a big attitude, and this year we learnt responsibility. We learn it from the bigger children, by their mistakes.

One girl lost five thousand rupees....

We also learn how to make new friends. A lot of new friends. And that was the best part of all....

Bumper cars

During the Diwali holidays I went for the school tour. We went to Delhi, Agra, Nainital and Corbet...in Nainital we went to the hill top view by cable car, there was a fun park in that place.

They had all types of entertaining games.... like the bouncy slide, dragon ride, BUMPER CARS and lots more.... I chose to go on a bumper car it was alot of fun,mainly because all of my friends were playing..and what fun we had bumping into each other....

Luiza was bumping into Abednego and I was bumping into Jeshua.... Bumper car is the generic name for all types of flat ride cars..

Roller-blading

Roller-blading is a good sport. For it, you need a big ground so that you can skate. Roller-blading is basically just like skating. Except on skates there are two wheels on one side, and two more on the other.

But in roller-blades, they are all in one line, at the centre.

When I started skating, I thought i was really easy. But it turned out to be really hard. But when I started roller-blading, it seemed like it was very hard, but it was like so easy.

Mostly people say that when you skate it's more easier than roller-blading, but I think they're all wrong.

Maybe it looks scary because all the wheels are in a straight line in the middle -- and your grip depends on it. But I think it's really easy.

Near my house, my school is just one house away, so my school has a really huge ground. It has a volleyball court, a nice terrace and a stage, and a basketball court. So I roller-blade on the stage or sometimes on the volleyball court when it's free. And sometimes I rollerblade in my house; we have a longish room and the floor is really smooth, so it's fun rollerblading there. Me and my brother rollerblade too.

My roller-blades are black-and-white and my brother's are light-blue-and-dark-blue.

There are at least two persons who always agree with me, that roller-blading is much more easier than skating. They are: Abigail (one of my best friend) and Aren my brother.

Twilight

Twilight is a movie about vampires and it's about this girl who moves to live with her father in this cold, hilly area. Her name is Bella Swan, and her father is a policeman.

She makes all new friends and stuff. Then, there's this vampire crowd called the Cullen Family. In it, there's Mr Cullen, Mrs Cullen, Alice, Gasper, Rosalie, Emith, Edward, and that's it.

The movie is really cool, so if you want, go and watch it. It comes on TV -- Star Movies.

I like vampire creatures, but they're also cold-blooded, so I wouldn't like it if I was a vampire. I don't really believe in vampires, but just like watching the movies because it's fine. I'll just keep it at that, otherwise you won't want to watch the movie or read the book.

Volleyball match... it's tomorrow

Tomorrow (Oct 1, 2010, Friday) is my volleyball match, and I'm really excited because it's my first match and I just started playing volleyball about two months.

In our schools, we have different categories and levels for volleyball teams. We have Boys Under 17, Girls Under 17, Boys Under 14, and Girls Under 14.

I come under the Girls Under 14. In my team, there's Amber, Liesha, Joanne, Kimberly, Melissia, Perpetua, Zephora, Sandra, Whitney. That's it.

I think Amber and Liesha really play well. Amber's a good lifter, and she smashes and fingers well. I think Liesha is really good in taking under-hand, and in serving.

Tomorrow we are going to play at the Peddem Ground, it's in Mapusa.

Our match starts at 9 am, but we need to leave at eight.

Now let me tell you about the other teams and what they've done.

The Under-17 Boys got the first place. I know some of the players -- Leander, Avito, Kevin, Evynce, etcetera.

The Under-17 Girls also won the second plays (at the taluka level). And they are Kezia, Ankita, Zena, etcetera. The Under-14 Boys only won in the first round, but they didn't succeed. But that's okay because everone knows they tried their best.

But tomorrow's our match. And no matters what happens, I think we need to be a team, and work together, and that we all do our best ... specially when we have to serve. The most hardest part is rotating, because then we have to take the lifter's part sometimes (and it's really hard, because you have to come really close to the net).

If we lose, I don't really, really care, because at least we got into the match, and we were chosen out of so many people. We should just try our best as a team, and have a sporting spirit... by being good sports. (My father say that if we lose, we will manage to come home early, and so we won't have any trouble for lunch!)

Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul 2

Recently, I started reading this new book called Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul 2

I find it a very good book, because it tells me about different children, and what has happened in their life, and they're from different places around the world. So it's really fun to know what happens in their country, their place and their surrounding.

Day-before yesterday I read about a guilty conscience. There was this kid, who went to the supermarket with his father. His father needed to buy the house supplies. And, this kid saw these lovely toys in the toy-rack. There were cool cards too. He wanted them; but his father said they were rather too expensive.

So, when his father walked out of the shop, he stole the cards and put them in his pocket. Then, he got a bad tummy ache when he reached home; he didn't get sleep in the night. In the (next) morning, he had to tell his mother, so he went and told her. His mother said, "I'm so glad you told the truth." She took him to the shop, and they paid it to the shop-keeper, and they told the shopkeeper everything. She said he was always welcome to come back.

So I thought it was really nice and interesting, and how this boy had the guts to go to the shopkeeper, tell her what he had done wrong, and what he had really done. So I really liked it.

Volleyball, at LCHS

Hey!!!...

As you all know LCHS is my school...it is fun..and now I have started going for volleyball classes.

I go every evening on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. My friends told me to start coming for volleyball and they said it was a lot of fun so I started going.

They were right it was really a lot of fun. There is a coach and she teaches us.

We learn how to finger the ball, serve etc...

Broken guitar string

Hey everybody, I started playing (learning) the guitar six months ago. This is my seventh month at it.

I have a teacher from Taught-to-Teach (a music school that has different branches -- Mapusa, Porvorim and Bicholim -- and the man who runs it teaches all the teaches, and they teach the students by visiting their homes, or you can go for classes over there).

It's a lot of fun learning the guitar, but you also have to practise a lot, which is very annoying. When you just start,your hands pain a lot, but then, you have to think about one day when you can play the guitar so well... and then you won't even care why your hands used to pain.

Now my hands don't pain as much as they used to pain....

I learn the box guitar -- it's also known as the acoustic guitar. I learnt many chords and notes (D, C, E, A, B, and F). My guitar classes are on every Wednesday, and I have enough to practise the whole week.

So, when I was practising one day, my brother came and untuned my guitar. And I tried tuning it back, but I didn't get the exact tunes, so I left it. And on Wednesday, my guitar teacher tried to fix it, but one of my guitar string had been tightened too much, so it just snapped.

And now I'm trying to fix it....

Going for a tiatr

On September 15, my mom, her friend and me went for a tiatr. A tiatr is a funny play which has a story and a moral. Tiatrs are basically shown on a family, and people working very hard, and people wasting money. Tiatrs are a lot of fun to watch, and when there are tiatrs the hall is full.

Tiatrs are always in Konkani.

The story of the tiatr I went for was on a family which had two sons, and they had got married, and their father had saved a lot of money (it had come up to 30 lakh of rupees). The father wanted to give the money to the sons, but the mother wanted to give it to the daughters-in-law. The mother was generous, and finally the daughters-in-law started acting all mean, they got an airconditioner in their room, the bill was going high, and they would not pay for their bill. The lights were cut off by the Electricity Department. So they had to go to hotels. They were willing to pay for the hotels but not for the electricity bill which cost Rs 2000. The daughters-in-law also kept watching television the whole day.

And there was this guy called Shantu, and he was in love with this girl. And he told her he could read palms, and offered to read palms. And he said, there's someone who loves you and he's one of your neighbours, he's single and has a very old father. And she thought there was another guy, so Shantu was very sad.... This tiatr will be shown again at the Kala Academy; I don't know when.

[We mostly go to the Kala Academy to watch tiatrs. Kala Academy is a place run by the government, and they promote music over there, and Goan culture. The music is based on cultural music, Western and Indian music. When we come close to Christmas, they also have Carols conducted, and traditional dances like Bharatnatyam, etc. They also conduct the mando festival over there, and some films from the IFFI film festival are also shown there.]

The tiatr is a lot of fun, specially when the acting part is going on, because then they have all jokes and stuff. But when they're singing, it's really boring. I'm looking forward to going to a tiatr again. My mom will take me, because she is making a short film and that's it.

the talent fiesta at my school..!!!

The talent fiesta is something my school organises every year,it is held every year before the Ganesh chaturthi holidays,it is where every student in the whole school shows their own talent.There are many activities held there,the activities are divided into two groups performing activities and creative activities,From them each student is allowed to choose two activities,two creative activities and one performing activity.for performing i took group dance and for creative I took candle decoration and collage,it was fun fun because the activities were fun and because we dident have school for two days....so thats the end of my blog entry and I hope u have all enjoyed it,and if u have any questions to ask me feel free and put them on my comment box...so bye 4 now..!!

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Its just so Confusing...!!

Its just so hard to make up my own mind about what to become in life...Its hard because u have to make the right one.And there are so many cool things u could become.in 1st std they asked, what do u want to be??and i would say a princess or a mermaid,in 2nd they would ask the same question,and i would say a dancer or a singer,in 3rd they would ask the same question,and I would say a teacher or doctor,in 4th the same question would come up and I would come up with a different answer and this went on.So till now I don't really know what I really want to be,but I am thinking of marine biologist or a lifestyle journalist..and I hope it stays that way...

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ScHoOl!!

Hey everybody..i am back in school and i am in the 7th standerd now..I go to lourdes convent high school as u all know.And guess what,Lately my school has been condocting many activities...and soon the school will be having something called the talent fiesta..and we can take part in any 3 activites,And i am taking part in collage,candal decoration and group dance..and what fun it will be.......

It is condocted every year in august or september and this year it is in september on the 7th and 8th...AND REMEMBER IF U HAVE ANY IDEAS PLEASE SHARE THEM WITH ME...

twilight.....

On Monday i went for the movie twilight saga eclips.It was nice,it was all about vampires and werewolf.It was the 3rd movie of the series,there are 2 movies released,and the 3rd has just come out.The 4th will be re;eased soon,and i cant wait for it...

When will school reopen?????????

I can't wait for school to reopen cause I miss my friends a lot. I don't like the times we get punished or the times we have to do a a lot of home work, but the best times are when we work together as a team and get called the best class and when the teachers say, "I am proud and happy to teach this good class."

My own poem called Whatif

whatif i was a toy,
whatif i get sick and die,
whatif i start a school,
whatif i broke the swimming pool,
whatif i wore two pig-tails to shcool,
whatif nobody liked me,
whatif my friends forgot me.

The amazing adventures of Harry Potter

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Harry Potter is written by J. K. Rowling. It is a vast series of books for kids and adults alike. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is the first Harry Potter novel.

Featuring Harry Potter a young wizard. It decribes how Harry Potter discovers he is a wizard, makes close friends and a few enemies at Hogwats school of witchcraft and wizadry, and with the help of his friends thwarts an attempted comback by the evil wizard Voldemort who killed Harry's parents and tried to kill Harry when he was one year old.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is the second instalment in the Harry Potter series. The plot follows Harry's second year at Hogwats.

There are seven Harry Potter books released and six movies; the seventh movie will come out soon.

I find is amazing because it is a lovely adventure which includes friendship, magic, being loyal to friends, recuing and all cool stuff. I got this information from the Wikipedia page on Harry Potter.

My favourite teacher

My  favourite  teacher's name is Miss Sonjode. She is realy  kind and sweet... but she  is  not  my  class  teacher. She is my  subject teacher. She teacher my Konkani.

I have many other  favorate  teachers to like Sr Flory, Miss Mary, Miss Dipti, Miss Judith Pereira, and Miss Judith Lobo, etc.

I go to Lourdes Convent High School and I am in the sixth standed. Next  year I  am  going to be  in the 7th.[?]

Risks on Facebook

I have joined Facebook a month ago.and I already have 77 friends. My mom doesn't mind me being on Facebook because  all  of my friends are on it and they keep talking  about it. And I would feel leftout.

So one fine  day my mom said, "Okkkk, you can be on Facebook." But  my father dosen't like me being  on  Facebook. He has already told me the risks of kids on Facebook.

But I like Facebook and I love the games and all of my family members are my friends on Fbk. My best friend Isabel is on Facebook too and so is Abigale, Varuna, Rebecca etc.

My friends are only  below the eighth standard mostly  except people who my parents know. And I don't  mind at  all. I am just so happy to be on Fbk.

The summer camp (at Don Bosco's)

I am going for a summer camp to Don Bosco's High School. I will go with my friends, and we will take cooking, dancing and film-making classes. Me, Abigale, Gabriella, Delilah and my little brother (Aren).

My brother will take Taekwando and Skating and we will h ave a lot of fun. When we have a break, we will read books and play for the rest of the holidays. I will go to the pool. I will also go shoping, and to my friends' house to play.

My best author: Meg Cabot

My best author's name is Meg Cabot, and I read on the Net that she is the first New York Times bestselling author of over twenty-five series and books for both adults and tweens/teens, selling over fifteen million copies worldwide.

Her Princess Diaries series, which is currently being published in over 38 countries, was made into two hit movies by Disney. Meg Cabot has also written the Mediator and the 1-800-Where-R-you series, Missing, All American Girl, Teen Idol, Avalon High, How To Be Popular, Pants on Fire, Jinx, Queen of Babble and many more interesting series.

Meg Cabot is my best author because she writes so well and makes her books so intresting, that you never stop reading them.

My Christmas

I wish my Christmas will be the best
Chocolats and cookies and all the rest
I'll sit under the Christmas tree
Waiting for Christmas to come close to me.

I wish the Lord will shine on me
And everyone will see miracles in me
And I'll say a pray for everybody
So all their wishes may be granted.

I wish I had a cat

I wish I had a cat
and I would name it Pat
It would have a hat
and sit on a lovely blue mat
and say, "I am a lovely cat".

I would give it a doll
and it would take it to a ball
and hid it in Pat's shawl
and say there's nothing at all.

October 15, 2009

Mater Dei is a hundred years old

Mater Dei is a school in Saligao, Bardez, Goa. It's an English medium school, and today they are celebrating its 100th year (anniversary).

The school is a very old school. There are two principals who run it, and their names are Cleta Lobo and Edna Lobo. The school was set up by their father.

The school is quite a nice school, and they have really cool text books. Because they learn all fun activities. In their textbooks, they learn really fast.

Today, they're celebrating the centenary and they have a small Mass in the Mae De Deus Church at Saligao.

My brother likes his school very much. He's going to blog about it; he doesn't like to talk so much, and tell everybody as much as I do. But he has made a lot of friends in his school, including Raj (his best friend), Duniya, Maria and some others from Standard I.

His class teacher is very nice, he says. Her name is Abinia. Aren has a lot of fun in his school, and he likes it.

When I go to pick him up, he's smiles a lot. The smaller classes always come out last. There's this girl, who just comes up to my father and asks him, "Do you know me Uncle?" and starts talking to me and my father about millipedes and centipedes. One day, she heard my brother talking about millipedes, and that's how she started talking about it.

No to TV

My father doesn't let me watch TV because he thinks it's bad for me. I like watching TV. He never lets me watch TV especially when there's my programme.

In some way it's good, but I feel he should let me watch TV.

When I watch TV, I feel happy and I like watching TV because I think it's fun.

Sometimes it's bad for me, because I get distracted, and I don't concentrate on my studies and stuff. But in some way, it's also good. Like, when I watch National Geographic and Disney Channel. In National Geographic, I watch the way animals live in the wild. And on Disney Channel, I watch Hannah Montana and Zac and Cody. There's nothing educational about it, but it's just fun.

I watch for one hour a day, because I'm allowed to. On Sundays I watch two hours. My brother watches TV for at least two hours because he's very addicted to it, and my father always blames me for Aren watching TV.

Wilson's art class

I love art. I find it a lot of fun. I like trying out new things in art, such as special designs and new techniques.

Wilson's art class is in Bal Bhavan. Bal Bhavan is this place in Campal, Panjim where there are all these activities for kids. There are many activities like drawing, cricket, musical instruments, clay modelling, and many others.

My brother and me are going to join art class. My brother's going to join the juniors' art class in Bal Bhavan, one of the senior art classes for bigger children.

My brother Aren is really interested in art. If you want to see his drawings and stuff, you can go to his blog. It's http://arengoa.blogspot.com

Bal Bhavan has an art class called an advanced art course for students aged 9 to 16 years. We're going to learn about fundamentals of art, study of lines, pencil, 2D and 3D design, creativity, basics of design, water colour painting, sketching and drawing, portraiture, human figure drawing and study, calligraphy handwriting, oil painting, still-life, nature, object drawing, creative drawing, fabric painting, history of art, print making, 3D scupture, and related activities.

Students' fees are between Rs 200 to 300 per month, depending on whether you go for class once, twice or thrice a week.

I'm really looking forward to going to this art class. I hope you come for it also.

Do mermaids really exist?

Isabel's drawing of a mermaid.

I just keep wondering all the time if mermaids and fairies, and elves and pixies really exist.

I wish I had a friend like a mermaid or a fairy. A fairy that would grant me how many wishes I wanted. And a mermaid who would always keep me company and play with me; and I would share all my feelings and thoughts with her.

She would also take me under-water, and we would play in her house.

And I wish she would also get her own legs, when she comes out of the water and comes to my house. When nobody was looking, I could go under the water, and we could both sit on rocks and comb her hair.

Me and my best friend Isabelle wish that we had a fairly friend.

If there were two of them (fairies) and we could name them whatever we wanted to. They would give us wishes. They would be tiny, dainty, and pretty-looking and very kind to us.

When I go to Isabel's house, we talk about fairies and mermaids. And we wish we could go underwater and really meet them one fine day if they really do exist.

The dhabha at Moradabad

A dhabha is a place where you sit out (in the open air) and eat parathas and stuff. Parathas are a kind of chappatis (Indian bread). You get many types of parathas -- for example, aloo parathas and gobi parathas, made of potato and cauliflower respectively.

On my trip to Delhi and nearby, we also went to Moradabad. It is a place in Uttaranchal. We were there during lunch-time, so we went to this dhabha and ate parathas and stuff.

We had a lot of fun in the dhabha, because we could out in the open air and play. Moradabad was quite nice, it was not too cold or too warm. It was just nice.

We sat on the table. There was a small boy who came to take the orders. He must have been 13 or 14, and his name was Sonu. It was so funny as he would tell us all things which were not available, and we would order them, but they were not available! So then we finally ordered parathas and daal makhani (brownish daal, with fresh butter and it tastes really nice).

My brother (5) calls it "Piggy Flue"

My brother thinks that Swine Flue is called "Piggy Flue". He says that you shouldn't eat pork all the time, because you'll get "piggy flue".

My brother also thinks that sausage and salami are not pork, because it comes from a factory -- well packed. Aren also thinks that every person who gets swine flue dies.

During these days, my brother had got high fever. It kept increasing and decreasing. And he was very hot, so I thought that he had swine flue! So my parents took him to the doctor, and she (Dr Lilly) said that he had very high fever and no other problem, because he had bad tonsils.

My brother could not have cold water or any cold drinks, and pineapple juice -- which he really loves. But he got well soon, and now he's alright.

I think Swine Flue spreads around because of viruses through the air, and I think that every case of Swine Flue, people don't die. So, to avoid Swine Flue, you should not have a cold, wash your hands, and be hygienic and all that rubbish.



SOURCE: http://cyanatrendland.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/fashion-swine-flue-mask.jpg

The Football Academy of Saligao

My grandfather (second from left) has trained some boys and girls to play football. We have matches and games. Football is a lot of fun. Specially when many children are there.

The members of the Football Academy of Saligao are: Elvis, Vishesh, Avaristo (who plays for Goa), Francisco, Abraham, Muskan, Seby, Anushka, Alister, Kevin, me, Aren and many others.

There are 20 of us in the football academy, but in the holidays nobody comes because they go for holidays (out of Goa). In the rain, we also don't play because we have to give the field back to the farmers to plant their crops.

We only play football during school days, in the evenings at 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm. I like playing football because it's a lot of fun. Sometimes I get to be the captain, and sometimes I don't.

In football, there's a goalie, a forward, etcetra.

The Secret Seven

My father had gone to Pune, and when he came back, he bought me some books.

The best book he bought me was about a mystery gang called The Secret Seven. It is written by Enid Blyton.

I like the book a lot.

The story is about six children and a dog. The children's names are Pam, Colin, Peter, Janet, etcetra. And the dog's name is Scamper.

This group, they meet up and discuss about their mysteries in a small shed where Janet and Peter live. But one day they decide that they need a better and a secret place.

So Colin has an idea, and he tells them, "We can have our meetings on a tree-house." They go to the misty woods, and try to find a proper tree, which is big enough for six of the children to fit.

Then, they find a tree, but Scamper cannot climb the tree. So, they give Scamper a small, little kennel down, and they all go up. Then they discuss what they need -- things like rope, wooden planks (for the steps), biscuits, orange-aide and lemon-aide and cushions.

So each one says what they're going to get.

But they suddenly find out that somebody else has been using their tree house....

That's how much I've read of the story.

Going back to school

My school reopens on June 6, 2009, at the start of the monsoon (rainy) season. Now I'm going to the sixth standard, VI C. There are ten standards before completing high school (Std X) in Goa. Sixth standard is in middle school.

I actually don't know where my classroom will be located, because the previous sixth standard student were only in VIA and VIB. This year we have VIC too.

I wish my class teacher is Sr Flory, or Miss Mary. Because she is very kind to me, and I like her very much. Miss Mary also is very kind.

When we go back to school, I want to meet all my friends in school. After a long holiday, we want to get together and meet each other. I am looking forward to meeting Melissia, Varuna, Rebecca and many others.

Lourdes Convent is in Saligao, and it's very close to my house. It's just a two-minute walk. I like my school very much and I'm happy to be there.

Agra fort

Agra Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Agra, India. The fort is also known as Lal Qila, Fort Rouge and Red Fort of Agra. It is about 2.5 km northwest of its much more famous sister monument, the Taj Mahal. The fort can be more accurately described as a walled palatial city.

It is the most important fort in India. The great Mughals Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jehangir, Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb lived here, and the country was governed from here. It contained the largest state treasury and mint. It was visited by foreign ambassadors, travellers and the highest dignitaries who participated in the making of history in India.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agra_Fort

Agra fort