Las Posadas

Hola
Today I am going to tell about ‘Posadas’. These are parties, where people celebrate to remember the time when Mary and Joseph asked for shelter in the houses. Here they sing songs, hit the piñata and have fun.
Everybody makes Posadas in their house, and also in schools. This year in my school we sang in English and in Spanish, played, hit the piñata and did many other things. In my class we exchanged gifts. My classmate Juan gave me chocolates and a pair of earrings and I gifted Ferrero Rocher chocholates to Sindell. It was fun. We also ate many kinds of food. We rode the Toro mecanico, which is like a mechanic bull and it goes round and jumps more or less fast, so it’s very easy to fall. It is very much fun.
After the Posada in my school, me and amma went to a posada in the house of one of amma’s friends. They also exchanged gifts. They gifted amma a perfumed powder. We went a little late, but they gave us our bolos, which is a bag in which there are sweets. I also got a bolo in the school.
On Sunday I went to another Posada with Katy, Nasty and Dra. Ana. There we played with other friends as Natalie, Yarik, Anthon and some other boys. We played Twister and other games. We ate Russian food. Also someone dressed as Santa Claus came and sang with us and gave us gifts. He gave me and Katy, Nasty a Nokia cell phone. And also gave many other gifts to the other children. We also saw a movie about robots.
On Monday (18th December) we went to a party for the International Immigrants day organized by Instituto Nacional de Migracion (Mexican Immigration Agency). Many people from different countries came for this party. Some of them were from China, Nicaragua, Cuba, Bolivia, Italy, USA, Spain and many other countries. There appa and amma talked with a Bolivian man, cubans and some Mexicans. The Cubans danced and sang many jolly songs. There were different types of food from many countries. We enjoyed different foods and it was fun. The next day, 0ur photo came in the Mexican newspaper PALABRA.

Al Otro Lado de la Puerta

Hi All!
“Al Otro Lado de la Puerta” is a very exiting book. In English, it means “The other side of the door”. One of our friends gifted me this book. We saw her first in the City library. She talked to appa and amma, while I was seeing the books. Her name is Karina. When she visited our house she gave me this book.
The main part of the story starts when a boy named Scott, follows a man named Tomeas by curiosity and enters a new place through a door. Then, Tomeas tells Scott that he is from another world and explains about his place. Scott and Tomeas became good friends. Everyday after school Scott visits Tomeas.
One day Scott’s friend Tully also enters through the door. There she finds new people. When she goes around, she also meets Scott by chance and takes him to the people. Earlier, Scott never met other people, as Tomeas told him that they were bad people. Suddenly, Tully disappears. Many things happen. Then Scott finds Tully in the mines of the mountain. Scott found out that Tomeas is a bad man. Both have many adventures before escaping. Finally everything goes well, and Tully and Scott return home. It was very exciting to read this book. Hope you all enjoyed this story.

Children's Day in India

Hola!

I'm going to write about the children's day or you can say Nehru mama's birthday.

It is celebrated on the 14th of November. In this day people give sweets to the children, and in schools they have competitions and celebrations.

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first prime minister of India, but before that he fought for the Independence of India. He liked the roses very much. His birthday is celebrated as Children's Day, because he liked children very much. Once Nehru gifted an elephant calf to some japanese children.

I've just started reading the book "Glimpses of World History", which was written by Nehru to his daughter. It's a book with all the letters he wrote to Indira Gandhi while he was in diferent jails. His daughter, Indira Gandhi, was also a prime minister. Appa bought me this book when I was very little.

Happy Children's Day!

Halloween Returns

Salut! (Hello in French)
Sorry for posting this blog so late.
On 31st of October I went with Katy and Nasty to a party and then we went in the streets asking for Halloween. Katy and I dressed as a witch, meanwhile Nasty dressed as a vampire.
It was fun. We collected many sweets.
Hope you like my drawing.

Ha Sido Un Año - Muchas Gracias

Hi everyone!

Many Many happy returns of the day to Harimishal.

It's been one year that I have been writing my blog. Last year, I started my blog by writing birthday wishes to my thambi, Harimishal. Now it is time to wish Harimishal again this year. Thanks for encouraging me by writing your comments. Thanks a lot to all of you.

El Descubrimiento de América

Hello
I am going to write about the discovery of America.
America was discovered by Christopher Columbus.He wanted to go to India, because he had read in books that there was lots of valuables thing. He also thought that the world had a round shape, but the people thought he was crazy, as they thought the earth was flat. Columbus wanted to go to India by other route. He asked for help to the king and queen of Portugal and France. But they refused. Some years later when he asked the Catholic king and queen of Spain, they agreed. At first King Fernando thought Columbus was crazy but the Queen Isabelle thought he was right. King Fernando and Queen Isabelle gave Columbus 3 ships ``La Niña, La Pinta and La Santa Maria´´. The Catholic Kings also gave him some prisoners and sailors to go with him in the journey. On 3rd of August, 1492 they started the trip from Puerto de Palos. On 12th of October Columbus reached a new continent, they thought as India. When they saw the natives they called them indios. When he returned Spain he told the Kings all the things he and his group members had seen. So, later more expeditions were made to the new continent and they conquered Mexico. In Mexico, they celebrate October 12th as El día del Descubrimiento de América (Day of the discovery of America) or El día de la Raza (Day of the Mexican race).

High School Musical

¡Hola!
On Saturday night I saw a Disney movie, “High School Musical”. It was directed by Kenny Ortega. Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Gabrielle, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman acted in the movie. The movie starts when Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) meets Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Anne Hudgens) in a party on New Year’s Eve. Troy is the captain for the school basket ball team. His father, Bolton is the coach. In the school Troy find outs that his new brainy classmate is Gabriella. Sharpay Evans (Ashley) and Ryan Evans (Lucas) are famous in the school for their stage performance. In the first class Miss. Darbus tells the students that there will be a call for Winter Musicals. Troy and Gabriella wants to participate. Chad (Corbin) is Troy’s best friend and his basket ball team mate. Taylor Mckessie is Gabriella’s best friend. Both Chad and Taylor don’t want their friends in musicals as they want Troy and Gabriella to concentrate on basket ball and science program competition respectively. So, Chad and Taylor make a plan to get them out. When Sharpay saw that Troy and Gabriella were doing well, she convinced Miss Darbus to change the schedule from Thursday to Friday. This caused a problem for Troy and Gabriella, because they have the match and the program on Friday and at the same time.
Troy and Gabriella manage to participate in the match, science competition and musical with the help of their friends. Finally Troy and his team win the match, Gabriella wins her science competition and both do well in musicals. Everybody was happy.
I liked this movie very much. I also liked all the songs in the movie. Hope you all will like it too.

La kermes de mi escuela

Hi everybody
Every September in my school we celebrate “kermes” for the Independence of México. A kermes is a festival celebrated in schools. Kermes is celebrated 3 times in a year. It is celebrated in September to celebrate the Mexican Independence, next in November for the Mexican revolution and finally in March to select the queen and King of the school for the spring season. Sometimes the students also dance.
The kermises are mostly celebrated on Fridays. In kermes days we just have 2 hours of class. Then we have the festival. They play music. Parents come and help in various things. Amma always participate and help in selling things. We have to change our money for some types of currency to buy these things. My father usually gives me 30 pesos for the Kermes. The usual things that are sold are tostadas (a typical Mexican food), corns, cakes, coke and cascarones (cleaned egg shells with pieces of colored paper and it is also decorated). Two of my classmates broke the cascarones on my head. The money collected from the Kermes will be used for the necessities of the school.
This is how we celebrate the kermes in my school. All of us enjoy this day very much. I like kermes celebrations.

Mis Vacaciones en la India

Hi all!
After our trip to LA, California, we went to India. Our flight trip was like this: first we went to Hong Kong and then we went to Singapore, where we went a 2 hour trip in to the city. Then we finally reached India. At Chennai airport we met thatha and Ganapathi mama. Achi, Santhi athai, Janani akka and Varshini were in at athai’s house. We stayed in their house for a week. I played with achi, Janani akka and Varshini. During our stay at Chennai, we went to the Merina beach and had dinner at a restaurant. After a week we went to our city, Coimbatore by train. After going to our home, we went to Lalita achi’s house and saw achi, thatha and Mani mama. We also saw Devi athai, Soori mama, Aparna and Aparna´s achi and thatha. Soori mama took me to a bookstore and bought a book to me. I selected a book on scientists and their mind blowing experimens. I have completed reading this book. It was interesting. After some days Shankar chitappa, Mini chiti and Mishal came on vacation. They live in Sharjah, UAE. Aparna, Mishal and me played a lot. One day while we were playing, Mishal told me that he will show me a magic. Then he pushed me and as a result my foot was sprained. I put on a bandage to cure it.

Then we celebrated Aparna´s birthday. Achi, thatha, Aparna´s achi, thatha, amma, appa, chitappa, chiti, Mishal and other Aparna´s friends were there for her birthday party. Aparna cut the cake and soori mama took us all to the restaurant for dinner. Also we all went to Residency and enjoyed. One day Lalitha achi did hairdressing to me with flowers. I saw two movies, Imsai Arasan 23rd Pulikesi and Something Something at Coimbatore. I liked both movies. Then, achi, thatha, amma, appa, chitappa, chiti, Mishal and me went on tour. We went to Sri Rangam-Ranganadar temple, Samayapuram-Mariamman, Tanjore- Bragatheshwarar Temple-Sivan, Chidambaram-Natarajar Temple and Gangai Konda Cholapuram-Sivan temple. This trip was for 2 days, & then we returned to Coimbatore.

After some days we returned to Chennai. Achi, thatha, Soori mama, Devi athai and Aparna came by plane. We went by train. We all went to Mahabalipuram. There we saw chariots of rock and then we went to the beach. The next day we went to see the Shore Temple. They were beautiful. At 2:00 o’clock Devi athai, Soori mama, Aparna, thatha, amma and appa returned to Coimbatore. At Chennai, achi, chitappa and me went to a movie called Thimiru. Later chitappa took Janani akka, Varshini and myself to Krish, a Hindi movie. I liked Krish more than the other. Also chitappa took me to dentist to put clip to my upper teeth. Some days later appa, thatha and amma came back. It was the day we had to leave. They prepared everything and at night we went to the airport. Then we had the same long journey back to Mexico.
I enjoyed my stay in India with all, but when we returned to Mexico, I felt very sad.

LA Trip

Hello
This summer, we went to India on vacation. But we stayed in Los Angeles for 5 days with Sunitha aunty and her family. Sunitha aunty is a close friend and classmate of amma during her college days. Nanda uncle (husband of Sunitha aunty) picked us from LA airport and took us to their home. I met Shivani and Santosh (daughter and son of Sunitha aunty). First day I was playing with Shivani and Santosh. On the second day we went to Universal Studio. It was fantastic. All the rides and games and shows were full of excitement. If you like scary thing the best one is Van Helsing, it will be scary but it will be fun. You have to be brave to go on the rides, but I suggest that you should go in the rides. In one you will see many dinosaurs in the way you will stop in a place a dinosaur will attack you, while you see the dinosaur you will fall down 84 feet down. It will be scary at first but at last it would be super. It’s called ``Jurassic Park Adventure´´. The Mummy Ride is a roller coaster with genial special effects with air. Like this there are many. I loved it. The third day we went to Malibu and LA beach with Sunitha aunty, Nanda uncle, Shivani and Santhosh along with Nambi uncle and Vidya aunty. Nambi uncle was senior to amma and Sunitha aunty and also friend. Sunitha aunty and Vidya aunty prepared food and brought it to the beach. We all ate there in LA beach. Myself, Shivani and Santosh played castles in sand. Later Nambi uncle and Vidya aunty took us to Hollywood Blvd. We took photos with stars in the walk of fame and saw the Kodak Theater. Then we went with Vidya aunty and Nambi uncle and stayed in their house. Next day we went to Disney land, California. It was a nice experience. Near Disney land there is another theme park named California Adventure. We just went to Disney. There are games for the whole family; it’s not just for kids. The most beautiful thing was the Sleeping Beauty castle. In Florida Disney land, there is the castle of Cinderella. Many people of Disney (who work in the park) are dressed like princess and prince, the characters of Disney stories. All the games are very good. In the morning and evening there is a wonderful and magical parade, in which you can find most of the Disney characters. In the night there is a show of fireworks for 45 minutes. They are first class. It is a very good park to go. You can’t finish seeing Disney in a day, you need more or less 4 days to see the whole park and see it nicely. There are 5 Disney land theme parks. They are in LA (California), Orlando (Florida), Tokyo (Japan), Paris (France) and Hong Kong (China). Nanda uncle dropped us at the airport for our journey to India.
It was a nice trip to Los Angeles, California

Last Summer Vacation

Hi!
Last year during summer, we went to the USA on vacation. Actually it was because appa went for training in Umesh mama’s lab. We started the journey on 10th July by bus from Saltillo. First we went to Nuevo Laredo; there we crossed the border by walking. In the immigration office of the USA, the officer there checked our passports and visa. After that we went to the Greyhound station, where we took the bus to Dallas, which passed through San Antonio (Texas). Till Dallas, there were many Mexicans in the bus but later there were more Afro-Americans and there were a few Mexicans. Then our bus to Nashville, took us through Little Rock (Arkansas) and Memphis. Appa said that ex-president Bill Clinton was a native of Little rock, Arkansas. From Nashville (Tennessee), we went to Cincinnati, Columbus (Ohio) and then we finally arrived Charleston (West Virginia). On our way till Cincinnati we were with a Mexican old man, who advised us that if we don’t go to the line first when we change the buses, we will miss our next bus. He helped us very much. We were received by Umesh mama at Charleston. We stayed at Umesh mama´s house. Every day appa, Umesh mama and Padma aunty will go to the lab, meanwhile amma, Rishi and myself stayed at home. Rishi and myself would be fighting for the TV remote control, I wanted to see Disney Channel, while Rishi wanted to see Cartoon Network. In the night I would read Harry Potter books or other book. The 30th of august Umesh mama & Padma aunty took us on a trip to Niagara Falls. On the way, first we went to a Krishna temple at Moundsville (WV). Then we went to Pittsburg, and visited Venkateswara temple. In both temples we ate good food. We stayed in a hotel near Buffalo. Next day we went to Niagara Falls which was very beautiful. We went for a ride in the boat (Maid of the mist), which took us near the falls. Then in the Cave of the wind trip, we went down and below the falls and enjoyed the view, as we could see lot of rainbows in the falling water. We were in Charleston till 5th of August. On fifth morning, Umesh mama drove us to Knoxville, Tennessee, where we were received by Siva mama, Manju aunty & Nanda. Now they live in Calgary, Canada. We were there for five days. I was playing with Nanda and Manju aunty. They took us to Atlanta (Georgia), where we went to an Indian restaurant to have our lunch (buffet). Amma bought some groceries. Later, they took us to Rock City, where we saw many kinds of plants and rocks and a beautiful artificial water fall. We also went to Ruby Falls. The special nature of this falls is that it is falling with in the mountain. We have to go inside the mountain as well as below the earth by walk to see this falls. Again, we returned to Saltillo by bus. It was a nice trip.

Copa Mundial- Alemania 2006

Hello
The Fifa world cup is a competition of foot-ball where 32 countries participate. This time it is taking place in Germany. Last time it was in Korea and Japan. Last time, Brazil won the cup and Germany was second.
Here in Mexico people are very excited of seeing the world cup, expecting Mexico to win. Rafael Marquez is the captain, a good player and plays in Barcelona team. The goalkeeper is Oswaldo Sanchez and when he was in Germany for the world cup, his father died. So he visited Mexico to participate in the funeral and returned back to Germany immediately. And the next day he played the game against Iran. I think he must have been very sad. After winning against Iran, he dedicated this winning game to his father. Appa says that Jared Borgetti is a good player too. While playing against Iran, he had his leg hurt. So he didn’t play against Angola.
I like foot-ball. I see and also play foot-ball sometimes. Appa told me that Shankar chitappa played foot-ball very well. I saw the World Cup Inauguration. It was fantastic. First they made some traditional dances, then a modern type. After that women dressed like bells came. Later Pele, a famous Brazilian foot-ball player and a lady came in to the ground and presented the Fifa cup. The women in the ground were hung like bells in the ceiling. Then several famous old foot-ball players came with a banner stating the year they won the Fifa cup:
England 1966, France 1930 and 1998, Uruguay 1978, Argentina 1986 and 1934, Italy 1982, 1884, Germany 1952, 1974 and 1990, Brazil 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002. Later German president with officials of FIFA came and the German President inaugurated the world cup. Some German singers came and sang a song for the world cup. Finally some old world cup players came with the flags of all the countries participating in this world cup.
In the first match, Germany played against Costa Rica and Germany won 4-2. More than 1 million of people are visiting Germany to see the world cup. More than 40,000 Mexicans are presently in Germany to see the matches. I also saw the following matches: England vs. Paraguay, England won 1-0. Argentina vs. Ivory Coast, Argentina won 2-1. Maradonna also was present to see this game. Appa and chitappa like Maradonna very much. In Mexico vs. Iran, Mexico won 3-1. I also saw Angola vs. Portugal, US vs. Czeck Rep. and Mexico vs. Angola, which was a draw of 0-0. Mexico will play versus Portugal on 21st, June. It’ll be very exciting. Hope you all like foot-ball. Enjoy it!

ps: the photos of this blog are sent to me by chitappa. thanks chitappa.

Varicella

Hi all !!

For the past three weeks (from 6th May) I was sick due to Chicken pox. It is caused by a virus called Varicella Zoster. When you have chicken pox you have many red colour spots all over your body. It’s very strong and sometimes not so much. Also it’s very itchy, but if you scratch the spots you could have marks in that place when it falls down. It’s usually common for kids under 12 years. The chicken pox is very contagious. If you are with someone who hadn’t had this virus they could also have it in some days. Appa told me that if it comes in the adult age it’s stronger and you suffer more and also that only 1 out of 1000 people gets this virus infection twice.
It is believed that the Europeans (Spanish) brought viruses and diseases to America. Some time ago in the United States they would invite the other kids to the house of the kid with chicken pox and they called this as Chicken Pox Party. All kids played together because they wanted that all the kids had chicken pox at the same time to develop immunity and this would make that there aren’t any problems later.I haven’t been to school for 3 weeks. It’s kind of boring. In Mexico people don’t care if there is a person with this virus in the house they would go with them and speak. My friends Katy and Nasty along with their mother, and Samy and Alan with their parents visited and talked to me. They all except Dra. Ana had chicken pox earlier. But amma told me that in India it’s completely different and that people are kept segregated.

I am happy that I will be going to school again

Feliz Tamil Año Nuevo

!Hola!
Tamil Puthandu Vazhthukkal to ALL

Rebelde

Hi all!!
Which one do you like more?

Recuerdos

Hi
It has been 4 years that I have come to Mexico. We came here in 27th march, 2002. Appa came in 2001. Amma says that I was little when I came here. Now I am tall. We ran to catch the flight to our city from Mexico. I didn’t know anything in Spanish when I came here.
To come to Mexico we came through Mumbai, Paris, Mexico city and Monterrey. There we were received by appa and Ivan. Then we went to our city. When we arrived there, we went first to the house of Sra Lourdes, where appa was staying. There we ate and picked up appa’s things. Then we went to the house of Dr. Jesus, Dra. Yolanda. After sometime we finally went to our house. The house was small but nice. Now I live in a bigger house. Appa had bought all the things for us, but he had told us that he didn’t buy anything when he was alone.
After three days a girl child was born to Monica, she is appa’s boss (Dr. Jesus) daughter. Now she is my friend, her name is Maria Fernanda, but we call her Fer.
The first week we went to the MUSEO del DESIERTO, WALMART, CATEDRAL, CENTRO, CARREFOUR, MUSEO de las AVES etc. now I have gone many times to these places. But now Carrefour isn’t in Mexico.
Before starting school I went to a curso de verano (summer school). There I learnt new things. There I met Monica, the niece of Maestra Alma. I was in manualidades and artes plasticas. From that year I have gone to curso de verano every year, I like it very much. I also went to swimming class. There I managed to speak to others in English, because I didn’t know Spanish.
On august, 19, 2002, I went to school. I was very happy, because it was my first day of school. I didn’t know Spanish. But in my class I am the first all these four years. I have been here for 4 years, I have many friends. I am very happy.

March of the Penguins

¡Hola!
Last week I saw a movie named “March of the Penguins”. It was about EMPEROR PENGUINS. It was said that, they live in Antarctica. The surface of Antarctica is about 98% of ice. Emperor Penguins population is estimated about 40.000. Their weight is 70 lbs & its height is 3 ft and 8 inches. They walk 1.7mph. 75% of the time they are in the water. They live for 20 years. Their feather, white & black is to protect them from predators.
We think penguins look funny but they look regal & are curious. They walk in line to avoid falling. The older penguins lead the way.
Their reproduction time is in June. After egg laying, the female passes the egg to the male and it goes to get food for the newborn. If it doesn’t return when the other mother penguins return, the father leaves its newborn alone & goes to get food. If the mother return’s the father passes the newborn to the female. Father penguins take care of the egg. If it touches the ice, the egg will be broken. So they always keep the egg in their legs. If the egg breaks or if the penguins lose their egg their relationship breaks up. The directors were there for 13 months to shoot this film. This is a very good movie. I liked it very much.

Elefantes en la Selva

Hi all
I did not write anything this week. So I am posting one of my drawings. Hope all of you like it.

Sophies World Again

Hi
Today I will continue about Sophie’s world book. I am still reading it. I have read about Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Bjerkely and Kant. They are philosophers. I have learned new things about philosophy. In the book there are many things that I didn’t see in the movie. It also says about myths. Where did the civilization start? How were the people at that time, when did Catholicism start? and some more exiting things. Also read about the Renaissance, Baroque epoch, the Middle Age, the Hellenism, etc.
Hilde Moller Knag is the same as Sophie. On her birthday her father who works for the United Nations gifted her one book. This book was about the adventures Sophie had and also copies of the postal cards received by Sophie. He also says that Sophie and Alberto are his imagination and are written by him. But Hilde thinks that they exist. In the book Sophie saw Winnie Pooh and Little Red Hood during her adventures. It’s very interesting. The adventures have not been finished yet. I will write again later after finishing it.

Another interesting thing during the last week was that I went to my friend Katy’s birthday. We all played many games, watched movies and broke the piñata (a figure made of papers and filled with candy). Then she cut the cake and we made her to do a mordida (it’s when she blows away the candle in the cake, we push her face in to the cake and her face will be full of cake).

Hasta Luego (See you later!!!)

Pirantha Naal Vaazhthukkal

Hola amigos!

I wish my dearest achi many more happy returns of the day (22nd Febuary, 2006) . I hope she will enjoy this day & have a long, happy life. My wishes to her with a traditional Mexican song.

Estas son las mañanitas (These are the morning songs)

que cantaba el rey David. (that King David sang)

Hoy por ser tu cumpleaños (For today is your birthday)

te las cantamos a ti. (I am singing to you)

Despierta, querida achi, despierta; (Wake up, my dear achi. Wake up)

mira que ya amaneció. (See that it is already dawn...)

Ya los pajarillos cantan; (already the birds are singing)

la luna ya se metió (moon has set already)

Qué linda está la mañana (How beautiful is this morning)

en que vengo a saludarte. (I came to wish you)

Venimos todos con gusto (Came here with pleasure)

y placer a felicitarte. (& with pleasure to wish you)

El día en que tú naciste (The day you were born)

nacieron todas las flores (Born all the flowers)

y en la pila del bautismo (& in the line of baptism)

cantaron los ruiseñores. (Nightingales sang)

Ya viene amaneciendo (See that it is already dawn...)

ya la luz del día nos dio(the Light of the day has already been here)

Despierta, querida achi, despierta (Wake up, my dear achi. Wake up)

mira que ya amaneció. (See that it is already dawn...)

A la vivo a la vau a la bim bom ba, achi, achi, ra ra ra (Long live achi, achi, ra ra ra!!!)

FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS A MI QUERIDA ABUELA (Happy Birthday to my dearest achi)

Hear my flute music of a part of the above song & hope you all like it!!!

Bienvenidos al Museo del Desierto

Hi
Today I am going to tell you about a famous museum in our city. It is called “Museo del desierto” (Desert museum).
In front of the museum we can see a fountain. There you can make a wish & throw a coin. They say that your wish will come true. When we enter the museum, we can see souvenir stores and then we would enter the museum.
In the museum they exhibit and explain the process of the formation of deserts. They have interactive exhibits of desert plants. We also see the Laboratory of fossils and lot of dinosaur fossils. They are big and nice to see. Many fossils of dinosaurs have been found in Rincon Colarado. It is in our state and near our city. There is also an interactive section showing different dinosaurs and their names. There is a section for kids, where you can draw, paint or sew many things.
There are exhibits and models of things that humans used a long time ago in this state. There is a compartment of train which was used in the past. When you are inside, the guide will move the train and you feel like that you are going in the train.
Then they have replicas of mammoth and stuffings of different animals like leopards, puma, cats, deers, bears, deers, fox, etc. There we can picture ourselves amidst whole animals and also among hunted heads of deers. There is a section for bats and snakes. Finally there is a section showing Coahuila 70 million years ago, which contains lot of plants, waterfall, crocodiles, turtles, etc. We also see a large section of different types of cactus. When we come out of the museum, there is a section to play with water flow and artificial rain, where we can get wet.
Appa took me and amma as soon as we came here. Amma says it happened during the first week (3rd April, 2002). We bought one cactus during that trip and still have it with us in our home. After that we went several times. Last week (4th February) we went again to the museum with two friends, Dr. Ajith and Dr. Alice who are from England and with Angel. They have come here to visit one of their Mexican friends; Dr. Pepe Reyes. Angel is the son of Dr. Pepe Reyes. Dr. Ajith enquired about Indians with their friend and came to know our presence from Dr. Carlos, who is working with Dr. Pepe and also a friend of Dra. Ana. Then they both visited us. They were happy to see us and we were happy too. I like to go to this museum. I would like to go as a volunteer to this museum and to be a guide.

!Ojalá que disfrutó leer este texto! (Hope you enjoyed this reading).

El Mundo de Sofia

Hola!
I saw a Norwegian movie "Sofies verden". I liked it very much. Appa told me that it is based on a Norwegian book by Jostein Gaarder. He also told me that shankar chithappa bought this book for appa from landmark book shop at Chennai. Now this book is in India. I am now reading this book in Spanish and the title of the book is “El Mundo de Sofia” (Sophie´s World).
In this book, a girl named Sophia receives two mysterious post cards. In the first card there was a question, Who is she? In the second card, Where did the world come from? Later she also receives cards addressed to Hilde Møller Knag, c/o Sofia. Then she receives packet of papers about philosophies. She becomes the student of Alberto Knox. He lives in a cabin near the lake. But she does not know who he is? Sofia sees Hilde Møller Knag in a magic mirror in the cabin of Alberto. She is just the same as Sofia, but with glasses.

I find the book interesting. I have not finished reading it. But I will finish it soon and write more about this book later.

Feliz Dia de la Republica de la India

Happy Republic Day

There will be 2 more sets of pillaiyar drawings. Hope you all like these drawings.

La Rosca

Hi
Today I will tell you about a Mexican tradition named `Dia de los Reyes Magos´ (Day of the Magic Kings), which is celebrated on 6th January of every year. As per their legend, a long time ago three kings followed a star. This star announced the birth of the king of the Jews (Jesus Christ) & they took gifts to the child. On this day, Mexicans cut a ‘rosca’, which is a type of bread in an oval shape. Inside the bread there are little baby figures. All will cut and take their piece. The one who got the baby along with his slice of rosca has to give a party to all on 2nd February. Dra. Ana brought a ‘rosca’ on this day to our house. Amma, appa, Dra. Ana, me, Katy and Nasty cut the rosca. I and Nasty got the baby Jesus figure. Then in my school, Andrea, Alexis & I got the baby figure in our class. Appa told that he cut the rosca in his University, but did not get the baby figures.
In the party on 2nd Feb., we have to take Tamales (a ‘mothakam’ like preparation prepared of maize flour & filled with cheese with chilies, beans, or meat, chicken & sometimes sweet with pineapple pieces). To drink, they would make ‘champurrado’, a drink made of chocolate, cinnamon, maize flour & nuts. I enjoyed this day. I hope you all will enjoy too reading about this day of celebration.