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.