Life is Beautiful... (La Vida es Hermosa)

Real Steel

2011-11-21T17:28:00.002-06:00

Yesterday I went to the movies and saw a film called Real Steel.

The story takes place in the 2020, at that time human boxing is extinct.

It actually starts when a man called Charlie (Hugh Jackman) who used to be a boxer is told that his exgirlfriend has died and their son, Max will be under his control. Charlie hates the idea of it as the only things that matter to him are robots and money. He makes a deal with the husband of his son’s aunt to exchange the boy for money. They decided that the boy will just spend the summer with him and the rest of his life with his aunt.

Charlie wants Max to stay with Bailey, who after her father’s death owns the gym where he grew up, but Max insists in being with his dad.

Charlie had bought a once famous robot called Noisy Boy and in a fight it gets totally damaged, so he and Max go to a place where they could find robot parts to be able to build a new one.

There by chance Max finds a complete Generation 2 bot named Atom buried. He brings it back and in the gym Bailey lets them that it’s in good conditions. It is programmed to support a lot of They find out that it has a shadowing mode.

Max programs voice control for Atom. He teaches it to dance while Charlie teaches it box. Max was determined to make Atom a good fighting robot.

No one believes that Atom can win a fight but amazingly he does. Through words Atom becomes famous in the small leagues. It was innovative to see a small boy and a bot dancing and winning.

After some time they invite Charlie, Max and Atom for a fight against two cities in a preliminar fight of the world robot boxing league (mayor league).

Before the match, they are called to the Lamckova suite. There Farra, the owner of Zeus the most powerful robot on earth at that time, tells them her interest in buying Atom. Charlie wants to accept because of the amout of money they would receive but Max refuses.

The fight seemed to be to easy for Two Cities at first but then Charlie saw the weak point of his opponent and Atom seemed to work it out pretty well.

At the end of the fight Max challenges Farra for a fight against Zeus.

Summer was over and Charlie took Max back to his aunt’s house. Even though they had grown close Charlie decided that it was the best option for Max’s future.

He came to realize that he wanted to be part of his son’s life from that time on, so he went to apologize to him and tell him that their challenge had been accepted.

When the day had finally come, everyone was nervous, Zeus hadn’t ever been defeated. At the start everything seemed to go bad for Atom. It was being hurt awfully but it hanged on till the last round. The voice mode wasn’t working so they were practically lost. Max asked Charlie to box for Atom using the shadow mode. It was hard for Charlie to accept but he agreed.

Everything was going wonderful they almost won Zeus, the bell saved it. It was time then for the judges to decide the winner. Zeus “won” but the people had seen that extraordinary event and called Atom “the people’s champion”.

It’s a good movie. I really liked it and you should see it! I think it’s worth it.

Never give up, everything’s possible.. that’s clear!

time goes by...india 2011

2011-09-17T22:52:00.004-05:00

This year on summer vacations we went to India .

We first went to Chennai with Janani akka, Varshini, Mishal, Shanti athai, Ganapathy mama, Shankar chitappa and Mini chiti.

After staying there for a couple of weeks, we went to Coimbatore to see Lalitha achi, Samy thatha, Aparna, Devi athai, Soori mama and Mani mama. We also saw perrito (Lalitha achi and Samy thatha's dog)! He's really big and cute.

Since we arrived at Chennai and in Coimbatore Balu thatha and Gomathi achi stayed with us.

We also saw many ammappa’s friend in both cities.

We went out to malls, temples, to have an ice cream, to go out for dinner, to see Harry Potter and many more things.

Before coming back Mani mama took both achi’s, amma and myself to Ooty (a hill town). I loved it! It is really cool: the climate, the scenaries, everything!

It was really nice to spend time with all of them after such a long time. I had such a wonderful time and even wish we could have stayed a bit longer!

I think India is changing, I saw a lot of difference between last time we came (2 years ago) and this time. It has become really Cosmopolitan and modern. But there is still the essence of Indian culture and I do think it’ll always remain there.

Something quite interesting is that I noticed a lot of difference between people from North India to the ones from the South (talking generally). The southern people are more conservative and in a way a more closed society, meanwhile in the north they’re more open, a more liberal society.

Sometimes, I wonder what will happen if I return there. What will I have to do, what will happen to my ways of life, even maybe my ideas will have to change, and in a certain point of view it’ll be really hard I guess. I hope and know that when that time comes, my family will be able to help me through it.

Maybe I have an mexican way of thinking, maybe not, maybe it’s a mix of both cultures. It’s the way I grew up not here nor there. Lets see what happens next….

Champions League! BARCA CAMPEON!

2011-05-29T12:44:00.007-05:00

Hi eveyonee!

Yesterday took place the Champions League Final in Wembley 2011. I was really anxious about this match because I knew it would be a great match, with the best teams in the world. Both, Barcelona and Manchester United went for their 3^rd title.

Manchester United started playing well and controlling their opponent but after some minutes Barcelona began to play way far better than ManU.

After 27 minutes, the first goal was scored by Pedro with a pass from Xavi. The culés couldn’t celebrate for long as 6 minutes later Rooney gave the tie for the red devils.

But in the second half, Messi and David Villa gave the triumph for the Barcelona team. Now the team coached by Sir Alex Ferguson couldn´t even make a clear shot at the goal posts.

The man of the match was Lionel Messi, I do agree that he’s the best player in the world!

Here in Mexico, a lot of people supported Manchester United just because Chicharito is playing there while others supported Barcelona of Pep Guardiola. Many were comparing him to Messi, I think that even though he's a very good player we can't compare him to Messi who is a genius in football.

I support Manchester United not only because of Chicharito but because I like their way of playing, but even then I do accept that Barcelona is a fantastic team!

The Champions League is an annual tournament organized by the UEFA for the top football clubs in Europe; it was inaugurated in 1955 by the proposition of a French journalist who conceived the idea after seeing the Campeonato Sudamericano de Campeones in 1948.

Since then, the Real Madrid is the team with the highest number of titles (7).

Let's see who wins next year! Hope its ManU or Real Madrid! jiji :D

Feliz Dia de las Madres

2011-05-08T12:07:00.003-05:00

Most of all the beautiful things in life come in twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

Kate D. Wiggins

Happy Mothers Day!

127 hours

2011-04-21T11:14:00.004-05:00

Que ondaa todos!

Just a couple of hours ago I saw a movie called 127 hours. I really liked because it had something that keeps you in it. It’s really interesting.

It’s directed by Danny Boyle (the one that directed Slumdog Millionaire) and its music director is A.R. Rahman. A quite interesting thing is that it's based on a real story so well you do end really impressed with the facts.

The plot is that Aron Ralston (James Franco) an engineer, mountain hiking lover gets trapped in the Blue John Canyon when he was trying to jump into a passage and when he does it a huge rock falls over his hand and he gets stuck there. He now had to find out a way to get help or to get his arm loose.

The problem was that until monday no one would now he was stuck there because he hadn’t told them where he was going just that he would be out for the weekend.

For five days he was stuck there. From saturday to wednesday.

He started thinking what to do, how to return back. As he had finished his water he started to drink his own pee just for the sake of not dehydrating.

He had also started imagining stuff. He tried to figure out the way to get out from there but he couldn’t even move out from there. At last after 127 hours, he just got out because he cut his arm with a cheap swiss kind knife.

As the time passed, he started to remember few important moments of his life. He started to appreciate his parents, his sister, his ex-girlfriend and a few of his friends. He realized how selfish and egoist he was.

At last when he was walking in the canyon he was a family and shouted for help. The movie ends when a helicopter comes and takes him.

This movie is really really good. You should really see it.

Guerra de Comida

2011-03-27T13:57:00.003-06:00

¡Hola todos!

Last week on thursday we had a get together at school for St. Patrick’s Day. Each classroom had their own. In my class we just brought food (chips, cake and cokes), we didn’t even bring music so everyone was super bored. Then someone started throwing ice cubes and after sometime I just heard “¡Guerra de comida!” (food war) and everyone in our class started throwing chips, coke, lemons, and cake.

Like an hour later the principal came and scolded us. We had to clean up all the mess in just an hour before 2 o’clock with is the time when school finishes. I don’t know how but between all of us we cleaned it really fast, I think we did a good team work. Some cleaned the floors while others cleaned the tables and chairs and others went for the stuff that was missing so that we could clean the classroom completely. At the end the classroom smelled really strange. Before leaving, the principal told us that we had a week without recess and that we had to plant a tree. We were all surprised that the punishment was so hard on us.

The next day, we went to the movies from school. Here also someone started throwing popcorn and everyone ended up doing the same. Miss Rose got really angry and made us clean up the mess. When we reached school, they told us that our punishment was that each one of our class was to clean a classroom (sweep and mop it) for a week.

So now, we are all cleaning the classrooms after school!

I think it was like fun at the time but then when you think about it you say omg there’re so many people without food and we’re wasting it! I do think it was wrong and now we have to pay for our mistakes.

Bonne Apetite

2011-03-06T17:28:00.005-06:00

Hey guys!

This time I'm posting some photos of different dishes I've prepared. Last summer holidays l started cooking and since then I've liked to cook from my own recipes. I prepare pastas, pies, and a lot of desserts. I've been told that they taste great jiji

Hope you at least like the look of some of the dishes and someday get to taste them.

Fin de año en Calgary

2011-02-05T13:50:00.002-06:00

Hey guys!

After such a long time I’ve got myself sitting here and writing a new post.

This time I’ll tell you about my experience in Calgary, Canada. We went and stayed with Siva mama, Manju aunty and Nanda’s house. I loved it because I’ve always wanted to see snow and well this was it.

We arrived there the 29^th of December. The temperature was really cold, around -6°. Siva mama told us we had a great timing because just a day or 2 before there had been a snowfall, so when we reached town it was all white and snowy.

The next day we went to a small town nearby called Drumheller. First we saw world’s largest standing dinosaur. It’s really cool because you can go up to the dinosaur’s mouth and from there you get a wonderful view of the surrounding. The only thing that I didn’t like was that the air up there was freezing. From there we went to the Royal Tyrrell Museum. I learned a lot from the museum, first of all that we can find a lot of fossils in this region of Alberta. One thing that caught my attention was that the structure of the Royal Tyrrell Museum is very similar to the Museo del Desierto here in Saltillo.

The way to Drumheller and back is really great because the prairies are covered with snow, so sometimes all you could see was just white and white everywhere!

The 31^st, on New Year’s Eve, we went with some of Siva mama’s and Manju aunty’s indian friends (Dr. Marcus and his family and Mr. Saravana murthy and his family) to celebrate the New Year. We came back early according to Mexican timings (at 1:30) haha but we stayed up until 4 am just talking and talking and talking.

The next day Dr. Marcus and his family and another friend of Siva mama’s and appa’s called Bala and his family came to eat at Siva mama’s house. We ate indian dishes, byriani, parotha, vadai and other vegetable side dishes.

One day, we went to the University of Calgary. I really liked it, it’s so well organized. I think the idea of connecting all the building with tunnels is great, because then you wouldn’t need to go out in the cold to get something or go to the other building. We also saw the Olympic Oval. It’s really amazing how people coordinate while skating. I hope someday I will go I study there (:

A day before returning to Torreón, we went to Lake Louise and to a small town called Banff. I loved this day because it snowed and everything looked like from a movie. The snowfall started when we were on our way to the lake and when we reached Banff it had stopped. I totally loved the lake because apart from the fact that it was snowing, the lake was frozen! I had never seen anything like that so I loved it. They also had like a castle made from ice cubes over the lake so everything looked sooooooooo nice. It was really cool.

After taking a great deal of photos there, we went to Banff. There we first visited a big hotel which looked like a very tall castle. The sceneries were great as the small town is very close to the Canadian Rockies. We also visited a frozen falls. I liked the view of the mountains from there, more than the falls itself.

Well, finally I just have to say that I really loved Calgary. The city is really nice and I liked this trip very much.

DEBATE: Legalization of the Marijuana

2010-11-06T17:54:00.000-06:00

What’s up!

This time I’m writing about a theme we recently discussed at school. Last week our Spanish teacher told us to choose a theme for our class debate. We chose the legalization of the marijuana in Mexico.

I think that’s really an interesting subject to debate about because its effects could be either good or bad.

Personally, I think they should legalize it because in that way we could eliminate the drug dealing problem and to avoid addictions problems we could educate the young generations and all the people living about the drug and about its effects in an inadequate way. Like this we can have a controlled use of the marijuana.

Our argument for supporting it was that we could overcome sooo many problems, deaths, kidnaps etc. and it even does less harm than the alcoholic beverages and the cigarettes.

Well, in the debate some of my classmates who were against the legalization said that the main reason it shouldn’t be legalized was because the society wasn’t ready yet for such a drastic change. But I think that it can be used correctly if people have conscience about the marijuana’s bad effects.

Well we finally came to the conclusion that maybe it should be legalized but first the government and each family should teach the people to differentiate the good from the bad and about all the consequences of each action you make.

Bicentenario 2010

2010-09-17T13:32:00.000-05:00

Holaa todos!

2010 is a special year for Mexico. 200 years ago the Independence movement started in Dolores, Hidalgo by a priest called Miguel Hidalgo and a group of criollos (children of Spanish but born in Mexico). Another important thing this year is that it has been a century since the Mexican revolution.

Even before this year started, the government started making a lot of publicity for many events in commemoration of this historic year. There were many cultural and social events in many important places in the country. The main event is the grito on the 15^th night. The most important grito will be given by the president in Mexico City.

This year apart from the all the events; we had the longest Puente (it’s when we don’t go to school for several days because an important event’s date fell on a week day) ever; we just went to school Monday and Tuesday.

At school, we had a kermes for the Independence Day. The seniors of junior high school and high school were in charge of everything. In each classroom there were 5 teams and each team was to sell something typically Mexican. My team sold duros preparados, cake and we had the civil registration. We had a laugh with this because we made soooo many funny things to get all our things sold. Some of my friends sold; ice-pop sticks, quesadillas (it’s like chapatti with melted cheese), fruit juice and so.

Later the next day, appamma and I went to Valeria’s house for the grito. There we met Vero’s, Diana’s and the twins Maya and Kenya’s family. The parents stayed in the house talking while we went to the plazita to play and talk. We had a lot of fun!

summer's gone! getting back to basics

2010-08-23T17:37:00.004-05:00

What's up!!! Summer time is over, now it time to get back to routine life!

Today was my first day as a senior, as I'm already in last year of junior high school!

When I reached school, the first thing I saw was a whole big bunch of first year students trying to see in which section they were.

I was really happy to return to school as I hadn't seen most of my friends in 2 months. We all were like omg! what did u do in these vacation? did u went in a holiday? did u have fun? I missed u soooo much! and stuff like that LOL

We have now 2 new students in our class, I hope they get used to our way of being in a short time and get united with our class.

We started our first 2 hours with miss Cecy explaining us the methods that were to be used this year and then just making some dynamics to get to know each other. Later we were presented to a new teacher called Norma who will be our chemistry and oyt (orientacion y tutoria) teacher through out the year. We also saw miss Rose our history teacher, as well as miss Alejandra our F.C.y E. (formacion civica y etica) teacher, miss Artemisa our spanish teacher whom we know since our first year and our new maths teacher prof. Rodolfo who we all hoped to be prof. Bustos magically! In the office I saw miss Pilar our always kind and friendly coordinator.

Finally, it was a great day! To see soooooooo many new faces and old ones of course! at school is always a nice thing!

The only sad thing is that we weren't able to see many friends who for a variety of reasons weren't able to be at our school this year :( but wherever they are I wish them all the luck! :D

Well, just hope this year will be even greater that last years!

Cuando un amigo se va...

2010-07-22T17:28:00.005-05:00

It’s really sad when you have to goodbye to someone you really love…

Today at 5:00am was the last time I saw Jibran, Karina, Montse and their parents.

I first met Jibran, Montse and their parents in fifth grade when he was in my science fair team and I still remember I owe him a movie I promised him 3 years ago! He was just my friend in the past few years but in the last 3 to 4 months he became one of my best friends.

Karina, well I remember not knowing her until I got into the football team, from the first time I knew she was a very happy and fun person but I got to know I wasn’t mistaken in the last year when we all got together very often.

Now, there aren’t words to show what I feel at this moment, they are great people and they’ll always be. I’m really glad I got the chance to know them and of course I’ll always remember them no matter what! We all will never forget all the things we did and spent together.

I hope to see them again in the future someday…. As they say distance is no obstacle for true friendship.

Hope you like the song. It talks about the feelings you have when a friend goes away…

ESPAAÑA CAMPEOON!!

2010-07-11T22:42:00.003-05:00

Bonjour!!!!
Well, Spain is the new world champion, now in South Africa 2010. I’m really happy as since the world cup started I have supported this team and of course Mexico.
Spain started its performance in this tournament with a defeat against Switzerland but later it recovered it level and won against Honduras and Chile in group stage. It passed to the knockout stage as first place of the group H. Spain passed over Portugal in the round of 16 with a goal of David Villa in the second half. With the same result Spain against Paraguay in the quarter-finals, they passed to the semifinals. This match seemed a bit complicated as it was against Germany who had been showing a really impressive way of playing and was one of the favorites to win the cup this year. When the time came, Spain showed it huge potential winning the match with Puyol’s header, breaking of the forecasts.
Well, today in the world cup final against Netherlands; both Spain and Netherlands didn’t reach their great football level, but I think they gave their 100% in the ground even with all the faults made. In my point of view the first 90 minutes were a bit boring comparing the 2 extra times. There was a stage in the match were I thought that the champion was going to be defined in penalties but hopefully for me Andres Iniesta scored the goal of the victory in the 2nd extra time.
This is the first time the actual European champions win the FIFA World Cup. Actually, none of the 2 finalists of South Africa had been world champions before. Netherlands is now a three time sub champion. Netherlands lost with dignity.
Finally, I’m really really happy for Spain and for winning my bet haha(:

south africa 2010

2010-06-17T11:46:00.005-05:00

Bonjour a tous!

The first game of each country in the world has finished. It has been a round with many surprises; as the very good strategy of North Corea against Brasil, Spain’s defeat against Switzerland, and the golazos (it’s how we call very good goals here in Mexico) of Brasil.

This worldcup’s inauguration was really colorful and in a very african style. It’s the first time, this magnificient event takes place in an african country, so this world doesn’t just represent southafrica but the whole african continent. I think it’s a memmorable world cup.

The opening match was against Mexico , so all of us here really got into the match. I think Mexico could have played so much better but well we can’t do anything about it now. The other day when I saw a group in facebook called ; I really started laughing about how people have crazy ideas.

My favorite to win this world cup is Spain, but seeing yesterday’s performance I really think they should start playing as in the Euro. Other teams are Brasil and Argentina; the all time favorites and Germany is playing really well too.

Now that the second round of matches has started, Uruguay played really good in their 3-0 victory over the host Southafrica, Argentina won 4-1 against South Korea and Greece won 2-1 against Nigeria. In a few hours we will know Mexico’s future in the world cup as it’s going to play against France. We are all wainting for this important match.

Finally, I just hope this world cup we had been waiting for 4 years, will overcome all expectatives.

Each day is a new adventure(:

2010-05-30T16:08:00.004-05:00

While surfing through facebook I found this. It’s quite interesting, take a look!

It’s almost impossible to lick your elbow.
The ancient Japanese believed that earthquakes were caused by giant spiders.
If we put side by side all the Barbie dolls that were sold since its creation we could give 2 rounds to the earth.
A drop of petrol is able to make non potable 25 liters of water.
Microsoft spends more answering calls from users with problems
than making programs.
If by some reason the sun stopped producing light, it would take 8 minutes to realize that here on earth.
The most known image in earth is the one of Che Guevara, with his hat with a star, looking toward the horizon.
Finland banned Donald Duck comics because it didn’t have pants on
Taking 100 cups of coffee in 4 hours technically can produce death.
There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.
When a month starts on Sunday, it has a Friday 13 and each month that starts on Thursday has a Tuesday 13.
In average, a person laughs 15 times a day.
20 hours of video are uploaded each minute on YouTube.
The official name of Bangkok is "Krung Thep MahaNakhon Amon PhoP Mahadilok Rattanakosin Noppharat Mahinthara Ratchathani Ayuthaya Amon Piman Udomratchaniwet Burirom Mahasathan Sathit Awata Witsanukam Sakkathattiya Prasit " which makes it the city with the longest name in the world.
Hexakoisiohexekontahexefobia is the fear to 666.
A 56.645 sided polygon is called pentakismyriohexakisquilioletracosiohexacontapentagonalis.
Hipopomonstrosesquipedalifobia is the fear for long words.
The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
The memory of a goldfish lasts 3 seconds.
The dolphins sleep with an open eye.
In 1997, American Airlines saved $ 40,000 just by eliminating an olive from each salad.
Elephants are among the few animals that can’t jump.
The salt has more than 10,000 applications.
The J is the only letter that doesn’t appear in the periodic table.
111 111 111 111 111 111 x 75 is 12,345,678,987,654,321.
A ducks quacking doesn’t produce echo and nobody knows why.
The giraffes are the only mammals that don’t have any vocal cords.
80% of body’s heat escapes through the head.
The fastest muscle of the human body is the eye lid.
According to the Times Magazine, the man of the year in 1938 was Hitler.
A koala can live its entire life without drinking water.
The Bulgarians say "yes", shaking their head side to side and they say
"No" moving it up and down.
An adult blinks about 23,000 times a day.
The Vatican has enough money to end with world’s poverty and even then it has money left.
Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare considered
the greatest exponents of Hispanic and English literature died on April 23, 1616.
If you shout for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days nonstop you can generate energy to heat a cup of coffee.
The chimpanzees, orangutans, dolphins, elephants and humans,
are the only species able to recognize themselves in a mirror.
Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, was afraid of
darkness.
World’s most common name is Mohamed.
The highest temperature recorded in the world has been in El Azizia,
Libya, on September 3, 1922 the thermometer came to 136.4
Fahrenheit. (58 º C)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Since we are born our eyes are always the same size.
The first palm trees grew in the north pole.

CONADEIP NATIONALS

2010-03-24T11:43:00.015-06:00

Well, after a whole week of matches and more matches in Pachuca, we got the 4th place in national level football.

After reaching Pachuca on 18th March, we just arranged our things and took rest for our first match next day at 9:00 am in the ART (Alto Rendimiento Tuzo: it's the place where we had our matches, it's the concentration camp of Pachuca's team Tuzos).

We arrived the ART at 8:00 am. We met our "calentadoras" (these girls were the ones who made us do the warm up before the match) Marisela, Gloria, Fernanda and Scarlett. They are really nice people.

This match was against ITESM campus Estado de Mexico. It was played equally well by both sides. At the end, the score was 1-1, so we went to penalties in which we lost :(

The second match was against Prepa Tec. Actually, in this really tough match we lost 5-0. My consolation was that we played really well the 2nd half, in where they didn't put not even a goal.

A victory in the third match against Colegio Miraflores gave us the pass to semifinals. The 70 minutes were really full of emotion as just a goal was the difference between them and us, so we had to be constantly running and being really careful about not making any mistake. When the referee gave the final whistle, we were all so excited, for us actually it was really wow, just the fact of being between the 4 best teams in Mexico.

Now, our semifinal match was against Colegio Once de Mexico from Guadalajara, they had passed to semifinals as the toughest team in the league. Being honest, we were really nervous and it was clearly seen in the ground. We lost 8-0.

Now we had to recover confidence for our match for the third place against the CUM (Centro Universitario de Mexico). We lost 1-0, it was really sad as the goal came by one of our mistakes.

Well, we had finished our stay here in Pachuca. It was sad to be a step from having the third place and missing it, but even though a fourth place in the first time we go to nationals, it's really good.

Later that day, after eating lunch and so, we met the players of Pachuca's first team. I think they were really friendly :)

After this great experience, it was time to return home.

I liked Pachuca a lot. It's awesome! There's a place called Real del Monte; it's a mining little town in a hill. Another things that were really good there were the elotes (corn), they're totally not like the ones we prepare here but the taste really great. A typical food prepared there are the pastes, they're like puffs filled with different kind of things either sweet or sour.

Well, finally it was a beautiful experience! Apart from getting to know the city and making new friends, you see different ways of playing, and you get more confidence after playing against really strong teams. In fact, Esteban (our coach) told us that these experiences will help us grow and make us better each day.

Instead of that we'll have a GREAT experience!

2010-03-15T11:56:00.007-06:00

Guess what???

This wednesday; Mexico's national football team is coming to play here in TORREON! (LOL can you believe it!!) against North Korea and we won't be here!! D:

But, from the other side is that we'll be going to play Nationals of CONADEIP in Pachuca. We're going to play football against many other teams from whole Mexico :D

We got our pass to Pachuca, nearly 2 weeks ago when we went to play in another city called Leon. There we played against the LUX, and won 3-2. Actually when the referee gave the final whistle, all of us were so soooo soooo excited!! This is the first time we go to nationals (:

Now this whole weekend has been of considerable amount of work,, on saturday we sold burritos, cokes, brownies, cake, ice-pops and so in a school event and yesterday we had a HAMBURGUESADA (it's when you make a lot of hamburgers and sell them) and we sold more than 500 hamburgers!!!!! All this was to collect funds for our trip to Pachuca!

Well now, 2 days away from leaving to Pachuca,,, I just hope that we can give our best in the ground!

FELIZ DIA DEL AMOR Y LA AMISTAD :'D

2010-02-14T20:47:00.004-06:00

Hii everyone!!

Well this 14th February is going to finish and I didn't want to end this day without wishing you all... a VERY VERY HAPPY HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!!

Hope you spent this day wonderfully well with all the people you love♥

--AVATAR--

2010-01-09T21:52:00.003-06:00

Hola todos!!

This time I’ll tell you about a new movie called Avatar.

It’s a science-fiction movie, directed by James Cameron. He also directed the super hit movie; Titanic, between others.

The movie is about the relationship between the humans and the Naa’vi (the tribe living in Pandora).

The humans go to a new planet called Pandora. There they discover that it has a kind of mineral-metal that values more than a million dollar the kilo. The conflict is that the Naa’vi live over that land.

A group of scientists create a biological body similar of that of the Naa’vi called Avatars. Now, one of the principal scientists dies and his Avatar will die if it doesn’t have someone to control it. Here’s where Jack Sully appears; he and his brother were twins. This made Jack perfect to take control of his brother’s Avatar. So Jack, an ex-marine is transported to Pandora.

There Dr. Grace, the chief of the Avatar’s Program, considers Jack inadequate to take his brother’s place. One day she, Jack and another researcher called Norm in their Avatar form go into the forest. While taking samples, an enormous strange creature attacks them. Jack is separated from the group and gets lost.

In the night, he is rescued by Neytiri, a girl from the Naa’vi tribe. After helping Jack, she doesn’t want to do anything with him. But later, she agrees to take him to the Hometree (the place where the tribe lived). After discussing about him Neytiri’s mom decides that he could stay in the condition of learning their lifestyle.

Meanwhile he was learning all the traditions and way of living of the Naa’vi from Neytiri; he falls in love with her and with all the people and land. After learning everything, he becomes a warrior and one of the “people”.

Before starting this close relationship, he had promised the chief coronel to send him information about the Naa’vi. So, when he gets affectionate he stops sending data.

One day, the soldiers destroy one of the most sacred places for the Naa’vi. Jack, climbs over the excavators and destroys the cameras.

When the chief saw the tape, he immediately recognizes Jack and gets angry with him. Jack and Dr. Grace go to talk to them and ask for an hour to convince the Naa’vi to move into another place. Before they could tell them the problem, the Neytiri and all the people get mad with them.

The coronel attacks the Naa’vi and destroys Hometree, causing the Naa’vi to emigrate.

Back in the camp the colonel locks up Jack, Dr. Grace and Norm in a room. One of the pilots called Trudy and Dr. Max get them out. Trudy and everyone except Dr. Max try leave the camp. The coronel hurts Dr. Grace while he shot the helicopter. Jack decides to get help from the Naa’vi as Grace was really weak.

First, he had to get back their trust, so he goes to tame a Toruk (it was a flying animal, which just 5 Naa’vi had tamed before). When he appears with the Toruk, the tribe showed him a lot of respect and accepted to help him. They couldn’t save Dr. Grace.

Next day, Dr. Max tells them that the coronel decided to attack the Tree of Souls and finish completely with the hope of the Naa’vi. Jack speaks with the tribe and asks them for help to fight for their land against the Sky People. All the tribes get together for the Toruk’s call. All of them get prepared for the final battle. Jack asks for help to Eywa (the Naa’vi goddess).

In the decisive day, finally Eywa helps them, sending all the animals in the planet to fight against the invaders.

With lot of courage, the Naa’vi win the battle. Neytiri kills the coronel ad saves Jack.

In the end, just a few humans are allowed to stay in Pandora and the rest is sent back to Earth. Jack fulfills his dream of being in the Naa’vi body forever. (:

In my opinion, I think that the movie is really good. I liked very much the special effects, they’re really wonderful.

Appa told us that Cameron based in the Hindu mythology to create the Naa’vi and the Avatars.

Well, finally I recommend you to see this film. I loved it. It’s really worth seeing in theaters.

FELIIZ AÑOO NUEVOO!!!!

2010-01-01T14:20:00.004-06:00

Hi everyone!!

Well, another year has finished.

I loved 2009 because I think that I learnt lot of new things and spent sooo many unforgettable moments with people I love ♥

Let's hope that 2010 will be a really great year and many many good things happen during these 365 days :'D

My best wishes to everyone. Hope this new year will be wonderful!

Felicidades Arge!!! :D

2009-12-23T21:36:00.004-06:00

Hii all!!

On Friday Arge graduated.

In the morning we went to the university for the entrega de papeles. First, there was a prayer. After, all graduates went to school for the graduation photo and returned back to the auditorium. Then, the ceremony started. While all the graduates walked in, we all stood up and clapped hands until they took their seats. Ing. Vaquera (the school director) spoke. They started calling each student to give them the degree. After everyone passed they gave the awards to the best students of the generation. Later, one of the graduates gave the final speech. I liked the way she spoke. A teacher from the university sang a song called Coincidir and another song (I don’t remember the name right now, but it’s very nice too). She sang very nicely. Finally, Lic. Manuel Martinez (the coordinator of UAdeC Torreon) congratulated the graduates and their parents.

In the night, we went to the party. Arge invited us and we sat with her parents. I have been thinking of this party from July itself because this one is for Arge’s graduation. This is the first graduation party I have attended. First each one of the graduates came with their father or mom, while some of them came with their pair. Arge started her dancing with her dad. After some time, we dined and danced. I too danced with Arge and her friends. I think most of the music was from the 80’s or earlier. At 2; 30 am the party was over and we returned home.

Well, finally CONGRATULATIONS ARGE!!!!!!!!!

iNdiA!! :))

2009-10-24T19:39:00.002-05:00

Hi everyone!

This time, I’m writing about our trip to India. It was really cool! I loved it! The only thing I was sad with, was that we were just more a less a week with our family. But I learnt a lot of things about India that I had never thought about and also I think that India has changed a lot of things. Learning with Arge was really fun (:

The first place we visited in India was Bombay. There we went on a local tour. We saw: Gate of India, the Taj Hotel, Nehru Park and many other places. I think that Bombay, is like any other metropolitan city but it also has its dark part like the slums. I hope that someday, everyone can live comfortably. In Bombay, appa had a pleasant surprise as he saw an old friend of his, in the bus of our local tour. At first, he hadn’t noticed his friend but then, they were talking and talking the whole day. The only thing I didn’t like in Bombay was the weather as it was raining and raining all the time. We stayed in Bombay for just 2 days.

Then we went to Chennai in a train called Kongan Railways. This train is famous as it passes through the ocean for more than an hour, but we couldn’t see the scenery as when it passed that way it was midnight and we were all sleeping.

In Chennai train station, Shankar chithappa and Janani akka came to receive us. Then we went to chitappa’s house. There achi, thatha, varshini, Santhi athai and Mini chiti were waiting for us. I was realy glad and sooo happy to see them all after soooo much time.

We just stayed a day there and then we went to Delhi in a super fast train :) Well, actually I didn’t feel it soo fast but at least we reached Delhi in a day and half. Delhi is really a beautiful city just that I hated the climate. It made Arge and me feel that Torreon’s heat was far better.

In Delhi we visited the Qutub Minar, Lotus Temple (Arge and me were dying there, as we had to walk barefoot like200 mts. But the problem was that the heat was unbearable and we had to run real fast to get into to the temple), the Red Fort and other local things :)

From Delhi we went to visit Jaipur. This city is also called the Pink City, because in the olden times most of the buildings were in that color.

I really liked the architecture and everything in Jaipur; it was like in the Aladdin’s story. Here for the first time we saw a cobra dance. Well, actually it wasn’t like in the movies but the snake was trying to do dance. We also went in an elephant ride, it felt really cool, and it was real fun. We also visited real beautiful palaces there. It looked really amazing.

From Jaipur we went to Agra. There we visited the Taj Mahal. It was really cool as when I saw it for the first time I was still really small and I didn’t actually remember well. I still remember a funny thing that happened here, while appa’s was taking the photos, he stepped wrongly and was about to fall down.

Another places, we went to; were Varanasi and Bodgaya. These two are religious places. The first one is supposed to be the holy city for the Hindus and the second one is the place were Buda is said to have received the enlightment. In Varanasi, I was a bit disappointed, because even being the holy place it was really dirty. I think they should take more care for that city.

After visiting those cities, we went to a place called Bhubaneshwar. There we visited a place called Konark Temple. It is called the Sun Temple. It is supposed to have had the tallest tower than any other temple in its period. There I climbed a tree into a branch and after I was down appa and Arge told me that a big lizard was just aside me and I hadn’t even noticed it!

After visiting all these places in Northeast India, we returned to Chennai. In Chennai, we stayed for some time with Balu thatha, Gomathi achi, Janani akka, Varshini, Shankar chithappa, Mini chitti, Santhi athai, Ganapathy mama, Mishal and everyone. We saw movies, went shopping and did a lot of things. The sad part was that we just stayed there for 3 days :(.

After Chennai, we went to our house in Coimbatore. Achi and thatha also came with us. Here we saw Aparna, Devi athai, Soori mama, Lalitha achi, Samy thatha, Mani mama, and Perrito! In Coimbatore we also did many things. Mani mama took Aparna, Arge, Varshini (a weekend she, Shankar chithappa, Mishal and Mini chitti came) and me to an ice cream parlor called Boomerang. I liked the way they sell you the ice cream because you could choose different types of ice cream and they’ll mix all that up with chocolate, cookies, wafers, etc. Meanwhile we were staying here; we went to a falls called Kovai Kutrallam. Kovai is the short form of Coimbatore. We also went to Kanyakumari. In this part of India, 3 seas get together (the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal and the Arabic sea). Here we saw PTR mama and Salom aunty & her family. But before going there first we went to Madurai were we went to a temple and then to Sivakasi. Sivakasi is appa’s hometown. It‘s called as Little Japan, as it is one of the most famous fireworks places in India. Here we visited the school where appa had studied his whole primary studies. From there, we went to Tiruchendur, there appa offered his hair to Murugan (a Hindu god). Amma also offered her long long hair before appa, but in Tiruapdi. In Kanyakumari we visited a monument and a prayer centre. After finishing this part of our trip, we returned to Coimbatore. Amma didn’t accompany us as she had her laser operation in Coimbatore.

In Coimbatore, we visited Lalitha achi’s and Devi athai’s house, and we also went to Marudamalai (it’s a temple in the top of a hill) and many shops.

After a week, the time had come. We had to return to Torreon and continue the routine. It was sad to leave them all, but I’m sure we’ll see them soon! (: We flew from Coimbatore to Bombay and from there to London. In London, appamma and I changed airports while Arge and Dra. stayed there. From there we flew to Orlando, meanwhile they were going to Mexico City. Arge and Dra. arrived Torreon before us, as we lost our flight to Mexico City in Orlando, and we had to stay overnight and take a flight to Dallas and then to Torreon.

Well, now in Torreon we’re again in the same work and everything again!

It's really funny now, because when our friends see amma, they get really shocked, as they didn't expect to see her like that, with the hair really really short. :)

That's just me!

2009-09-05T19:05:00.003-05:00

Just posting a drawing I made for a homework.

We had to draw something that expresed how we are, our personality and character.

I chose a tiger cause I think that I'm really intense, temperamental (ask my parents and friends :P). I also think that a tiger has a friendly side and also a dark side (meaning getting angry easily, not having patience, and so on).

I think that I'm that kind of person. The thing, I guess that I would like to change is the bad characters in me. But most importantly I should keep on going with the good things I know and learn :)

Hope you liked the drawing!

Just 2 days from now!!

2009-07-02T18:04:00.005-05:00

Hi all!!

This is a really short blog before going to India. :D
I’m really excited as we’ll be flying to India in 2 days from now. This time Arge and Dra. Lilia will also come with us. We’re going in an India wide trip (: we’ll just visit the most important places there as we won’t be staying longer than 40 days. Achi and thatha are a bit sad as we won’t be staying the whole trip with them. I am happy that I'll learn about India with Arge in this tour as I and Arge don’t really know much about it.

I hope and think that this visit to India will be really great.

Well, I’ll write about the trip when we return from there.

Copa Confederaciones

2009-06-28T17:25:00.003-05:00

Hi everyone!
Today Brazil won the Confederations Cup against USA. The match was really interesting as in the first half USA was winning with a 2-0, but in the second half Brazil woke up and showed its magic and made 3 goals. The American goalkeeper (Tim Howard) made a difference as he saved many shots.
Dempsey made the first goal of the final at just 10 minutes. Then Landon Donovan made a goal in a kickback. Brazil started playing their game in the second half. Without even a minute of the 2nd half Luis Fabiano put the ball in the net. He again headed the ball into the net for the draw in a wonderful play of Kaka. Lucio, the Brazilian captain made the goal of the victory again with a heading. This was just 6 minutes before going to extra time. So the match was really exciting as both teams played well, one in the first half and the other in the second.
Kaka won the golden ball as the best player of this tournament.
Before all this, in the semifinals, I was totally surprised when USA won against Spain as it was my favorite for winning the Cup. Then in the 2nd semifinal: Brazil vs. South Africa, I thought that Brazil would easily win but the match was really tough. Brazil passed to the final with a last minute goal of Dany Alves in a direct free kick.
Well, now let’s wait for South Africa 2010. 346 days for the World Cup to start.
Spain is my favorite team to win the World Cup but let’s see what happens.

Changes

2009-06-05T20:42:00.003-05:00

Hi everyone!!
Here everyone is really happy as we’re about to start holidays. This first year in junior high school was different. There were so many changes!! Still it was really nice.
I made new very good friends, and also got attached very much with some I knew since before. Just now a week before starting summer holidays, I started to remember all the things that happened this year and see the photos. We all have changed a lot!! I can’t believe it,, we’re all so different!!
So many unusual things happened.
First of all, people I never thought I’ll get along with them became some of my closest friends. Then our class which we never thought like one is now so united.
Then, the -Influenza Break- struck me hard as just 1 week before we had returned to school from Easter holidays. At first, it was ok to relax but after 3 days I was counting the days to return school.
Yesterday, a phrase that our Biology miss told us, kept me thinking. “Change is the only constant thing in life”. I remembered that I had often heard that phrase before but never thought about it until now. I liked it very very much. I think that it very real
Even though we don’t like the changes most of the time they’re for our good. So, what’s left is to over face and get over them.
At this moment, I’m really excited and happy because Arge’s coming and we’re going to India, but at the same time I’m feeling a bit sad as some of my closest friends aren’t going to be at the school next year. So, now just wishing the friday not to be the last day we ever meet. Hope all this new tech help us to keep in touch.

Go Green!

2009-05-03T14:17:00.006-05:00

Bonjour!!
Well, right now for me it’s so boring…we’re in this kind of Influenza Break (swine flu break). It’s been nearly a week without classes and we’re supposed to enter again on Wednesday. I just hope that they don’t postpone it also. I think it’s quite right to do this for the health of everyone but now I question myself that how are we going to recover all the things we were supposed to see last week...

In this little “holidays” we saw 2 movies: Minority Report and Artificial Intelligence A.I. Both of them are science-fiction. They show the way they think that we'll be and things we'll create in the future, in order to create new technologies and make the life easier. In Minority Report they create a precrime system. They have 3 precogs who can see the murders so by that way they avoid the death of many people. Here the problem was that in some cases there was a minority report so not always the vision was true. In A.I. they create robots who'll be able to love, this is kind of strange because the robots also have the same feelings as us. The problem was that they didn't know if humans would be able to give back they love they received.

Right now, I think first about the planet. That all this global warming thing is going to affect and change the world totally in some years…so what’s about to happen, is something that I can’t imagine. There are so many things happening these days.
We have to try to make our best because the earth is the only place till now, where we can live. We’ve got to help, by recycling, using energy-savers appliances, and going green!

Shantaram

2009-04-29T18:36:00.002-05:00

Hi all!!
This time I’m writing about a book called Shantaram. It’s written by an Australian who after escaping from the prison, where he was sentenced for robbery and heroin addiction, comes to India. Most of the book is non-fiction but there is also fiction.
Gregory David Roberts gets a false New Zealand passport with the name of Lindsay Ford. After arriving Bombay, he gets a guide called Prabu (Prabaker), who later becomes his friend. Prabu takes him to the slums and the black markets in the city. He also goes to Leopold’s, where he meets Karla (a swiss-american woman, of whom Lin fell in love from the first time he met her), Didier, Modena, Ulla, Maurizio, Letita, Kavita, Vikram and many others. Lin and Karla have a close relationship. One day, Prabu invited Lin to go for vacations to his native village (Sunder village). They stayed there for nearly six months. Lin learned a lot about Indian culture there, and also learned Hindi and Marathi. He became like a brother to Prabu and part of their family. Prabu’s parents called him Shantaram Kishan Kharre. Shantaram meant man of peace, or man of god’s peace. Lin went to live in the slums. He worked as a doctor. He met new people as Johnny Cigar, Raju, Mr. Qasim Ali Hussein, Anand, Rafiq, Jeetendra, Radha, Abdullah Taheri, etc. One day, Abdullah took him with Abdel Khader Khan (Khaderbhai), Nazeer, and others and they talked about philosophical things. Once, while he was attending some people, Karla passed by to visit him. He was very shamed to be seen by Karla in that condition. After finishing, Lin invited her to join him to eat at the Village in the Sky. There he hears about the Sapna killers. They were supposed to be a gang that killed the rich people to give it to the poor ones. With Khaderbhai too he talked about them. One day, Karla asked him to help her get her friend, Lisa out of Madame Zhou place. Karla arranged everything and Madame Zhou accepted to leave Lisa, but with the condition that if Lisa returned she would never be able to go out. Lisa joined them and they three left that horrible place.
Lin also took care of Khaderbhai’s nephew Tariq. He had to teach English and his culture. He looked after Tariq for 3 months. During that period, Tariq and Lin became close friends.
Lin also met a Nigerian called Hassan Obikwa.
A hard cholera fever occurred in the slums. Radha, Parvati, and many others fell sick. Karla also helped him to attend people. Lin did all he could, but still when the epidemic finished, 6 people died.
One day, Ulla told Lin to meet her outside Leopold’s at 1:00 at night. When Lin arrived there, some people took him to the police station.
Lin found out that he was there as someone discovered that he had escaped from the Australian jail. He was sent to the Arthur Road Prison, where he tried to get stronger and remembered his Australian life. Four months passed, Lin was told that a man had come to release him; Vikram, Khaderbhai had sent him. When Lin was out, he also paid for a man called Raheem to be released. Vikram told Lin that Karla had left the city. Khaderbhai asked Lin to work for him, so he joined the Bombay mafia.
Lin started his instruction with Khaled Ansari, to learn the black-market money trade, and then he learnt the gold-smuggling trade with Madjid. Finally, he was about to start the passport business with Ghani.
Ulla came and told him that she’ll tell him where to find Karla if he helped her. Ulla was in some trouble along with Modena and Maurizio and she needed money. Karla had written a letter to her from Goa somewhere near Masupa. After searching Karla the whole day, he sits by the beach. Just then, Karla appears. They start talking and spent a week visiting the shores. When Lin was about to go, Karla told him not to return to Bombay. She told him that if he went away it was all over between them. Lin left her. In Bombay, Ghani told Lin that the Sapna guys had killed Madjid, and then he presented Krishna and Villu. They were experts in the counterfeiting arts. Krishna was a light-box man, he could duplicate the effects of any passport and Villu was a stamp man. He could make any stamp. They became good friends. Lin went with them everyday.
Prabaker gave him the news that he and Johnny were going to get married.
3 African men wanted to kill him and Obikwa told them that they were tourists and when they found where those men were staying, Abdullah, Lin and others went to fight against them. At last, Abdullah forced them to tell who arranged it, finally they told that it was Maurizio Belcane.
The next day, Johnny told him that Anand Rao had killed Rasheed. It was the first murder in the slum, so everyone was really worried. Anand had done the wrong thing for a good reason. Rasheed sold the kidneys of his wife and sister and in the end he ran away. In the hospital they were claimed dead but half an hour later they were alive. Lin told Kavita to make an article about Anand and his case. Sometime later, the story became famous. The women were called “The blue sisters” and as people visited them as a miracle they became famous.
Lin helped people with illegal passports get into other countries by a system called double-shuffle. He also worked with Lisa in film industries contracting foreign stunts.
Some days later, Lisa killed Maurizio as he was disturbing her and Ulla. Lin arranged Obikwa to take the body away and clean the place. Modena was injured so Lin took him to the hospital. He told Ulla to return to Germany.
The ambience at Leopold’s had changed, new people came. Vikram and Lettie had got married. Johnny’s and Prabaker’s weeding was a very happy one. Lin gave Prabu a taxi as his wedding present and 5 thousand American dollars for Johnny.
One day, when Lin was returning from the film set, Khaled told him that the cops thought Abdullah was the Sapna guy and had killed him. In Leopold’s, Johnny told him that Prabaker had had an accident. Prabaker was in the hospital, he was really bad. The doctors told them that he’ll die and indeed some time later, it happened. Lin was really upset. Khaderbhai, Khaled and the others had disappeared and Lin felt alone. His closest friends had died and Khaderbhai wasn’t there and all together he felt terrible.
3 months passed. Everyday Lin smoked heroin, he was really weak. One day, Nazeer came and took him away. When he woke up, he saw Karla. He asked her how she found him; she replied that Khaderbhai had sent her. Half an hour later, he woke up beside Khaderbhai. He said that he had a work for Lin. He told Lin that in 3 or 4 months he would be ready. Lin had lesson of riding horses with Nazeer and their friendship grew. Khaderbhai told him that they were going to go to the war in Afghanistan, and that Lin will come as an American.
Time passed and they prepared to leave to Afghanistan. They flew from Bombay to Karachi, Pakistan. Lin used 4 passports in Karachi. He met a lot of new people; Lin had met them all before...the first time he met Khaderbhai. He then realized that Khaderbhai had included him since the first time. There were many people from different parts of the world. Khaderbhai explained about the war. Sometime later, the Pakistani police searched the hotel where they stayed. They knew that someone close to them had betrayed them so they needed to be careful. Lin remembered read a note from Didier, which said that the woman that had betrayed him was Madame Zhou. Many crazy things happened in Afghanistan. Lin learned a lot of things about Khaderbhai and Karla, about how he went to the jail, between many other things. One day, he got really angry at Khaderbhai and he refused to go with Khaderbhai. That had saved his life, cause after days that Nazeer, Khaderbhai and others left, Nazeer returned with Khaderbhai’s dead body. Lin and everyone became really depressed but the named the oldest man as their guide. Most of the men who started the journey started to die one by one. At the end, just Nazeer, Lin, a boy called Ala-ud-Din and Mahmoud survived.
When they returned to India, some people didn’t know that Khaderbhai had died. Some time after he left Ghani, Nazeer and his men killed him. He was the one that had betrayed them in Pakistan. Krishna and Villu were freed. New followers came to Khaderbhai’s gang. Now they were a different kind of people, so many things had changed. One day, Lin saw Abdullah, he thought that he was going crazy, but then Abdullah told him that in the attack he was taken to New Delhi and there he had recovered himself. They had new types of tasks and all. One day, Lin met with Modena in Leopold’s; he said that he was waiting to Ulla’s return. So many things had happened since he had come to Bombay. At the end, he has 2 options to go to the war in Sri Lanka or go with Karla. After leaving Karla, he went to the slum. Prabu’s parents were there, they were really happy to him, and Parvati gave birth to a boy whom they named Prabaker.
Lin had changed completely since he stepped Bombay for the first time. A new life was ahead of him.
I liked a lot this book. I think it shows a part of India, well exactly about the life in the Bombay slums. It’s really good.

Doggie =)

2009-04-25T13:07:00.003-05:00

Aloha!!

This time, I'm just uploading a photo of a dog, that I made in a soap and later painted it :) hope you all like it.

Slumdog Millionaire

2009-03-19T22:35:00.002-06:00

Hi everyone!
This time I’m just going to tell a little about the movie Slumdog Millionaire. This movie won 8 Oscar’s this year, including best film and best director (Danny Boyle). It also won the best original song with Jai Ho of AR Rahman.
The plot of this movie takes place in Mumbai, India. It’s the story of Jamal Malik, the movie starts telling that he was 1 question away from winning 10 million rupees in a contest called Who wants to be a millionaire?. Everyone is confused as they don’t know how a boy from the Bombay slums could have reached till here as doctors, scientists and many others couldn’t pass the 1 million rupees question. Jamal is being questioned by a police officer and that’s when he explains all the events that happened in Jamal’s life, the ones in which he based to answer the questions.
Jamal and his brother Salim became orphans in a religious fight. They both run away from the place and in the way they find Lathika. Jamal and Lathika become very good friends. Sometime later, they are found by Maman who tells them that he will help them but really he was training them to beg. After finding out what will happen to them; Salim, Jamal and Lathika try to escape. The 2 boys manage to escape leaving Lathika behind. Many years had passed; Jamal and Salim went through many things. One day, Jamal and Salim return to the slums to search for Lathika. Salim kills Maman after finding Lathika. He and Jamal have a fight. Jamal leaves as Salim threatens him with a gun. After many years, Salim joins another criminal band and Jamal works at a phone calls company. There he finds Salim’s phone number and gets in contact with him again. Jamal stays with Salim for some days and at that time he meets with Lathika. She tells him about her life those days. He asks her to come away with him, he tells her to meet him the next day at the train station. The next day, she goes but Salim and the others prevent her from leaving. Jamal decides to enter the TV program -Who wants to be a millionaire?- just for Lathika to see him. Lathika, Salim and the others were taken to another place, there Salim thinks about all the mistakes he committed and gives Lathika his cell and tells her to escape. The program host was very angry and amazed with Jamal. Jamal had at last come to the 10 million rupees question, as he didn’t know the answer he decided to use the application of –call a friend-. That’s when he calls Salim but Lathika answers and she says that she doesn’t know and has never know the answer to the question of who was the 3rd musketeer. When they were young Jamal always told that he and Salim were Arthos and Porthos and that Lathika was the 3rd musketeer, whose name they never knew. Jamal just chooses an answer without being sure of it, as his only desire was to be with Lathika and not winning the game. Jamal wins the game and takes the 10 million rupees. Salim kills the criminal leader and himself. The movie ends when Salim is in the train station and he sees Lathika there.
Appa says that in India some people think that the movie isn’t as good as it shows the poor part of India now that it’s growing, while others think that this is also the reality so why not show it. In my opinion, I think that we should also know other things more than just the nice part of somewhere. The movie is very good and the time really goes fast watching the movie. I liked it.

INKHEART

2009-01-30T22:16:00.004-06:00

Salut!!
This time I’m going to write about the first book called “Inkheart” from a trilogy of books called “INKWORLD”. These were written by Cornelia Funke. The original title of the book is Tintenherz. It’s in German but has been translated into many languages.
In this one they start to tell us the whole plot of the books. Well here comes the story. Once there was a book binder called Mo, who had a magical power which was that he could bring to life anything that was in a book just with his voice. 10 years ago, he was reading a story called “Inkheart” to his wife and 3 year daughter (Meggie). In that moment something strange happened. Hs wife disappeared and 3 men and a marten stood in front of him. Later after reading the book once more, he discovers that they were called Basta, Capricorn and Dustfinger with his marten called Gwin. Mo was very sad has he had read into the book his own wife, so he decided not to read aloud again in his life. One night, Meggie saw someone outside her house in the rain, so she called Mo. Mo went downstairs to see who was there and found Dustfinger. Mo told Meggie to go upstairs but she hide there to overhear the talk. She just heard strange names and understood nothing. The next day, Mo told Meggie to get ready to go with an aunt of her mom called Elinor. Meggie didn’t understand the need but accepted. In the way they saw Dustfinger and as Meggie didn’t like him she came out of the car and asked Mo to tell her what was going on so she could get into the car. He didn’t want to tell her but Dustfinger told her just something’s and she accepted. When they reached Elinor’s house they were amazed as she had more than 1000 books. Meggie saw Mo giving a book to Elinor ad telling her that she should take care of it. Then, Elinor saw Meggie. Mo was shocked, as Meggie read a page were there was a picture of a thing alike to Gwin. One day, after Meggie started to get along with Dustfinger, Basta and other blackjackets (the ones that worked for Capricorn) came and took Mo with the book with them. That night Dustfinger disappeared and so Meggie and Elinor found out that he was a traitor. Elinor then told Meggie that the book they took was the wrong one. Elinor, Meggie, and Dustfinger leave Elinor's house to follow Mo to the village were Capricorn was staying. There Meggie finds out the whole truth. Capricorn shuts Mo, Elinor and Meggie. Dustfinger escapes before they could shut him up. Capricorn wants Mo to read him out gold from books as Treasure Island and when Mo reads One Thousand and One Arabian Nights instead of gold a boy comes out and a Capricorn’s man vanishes. Capricorn shuts all of the again. In the night, Dustfinger comes and gets Mo, Meggie, Elinor and the boy called Farid from their cells. They all go to a village nearby to find a copy of Inkheart. Elinor finds out the address of the author of Inkheart. Mo was sure that Capricorn would have never thought about the author of his book. In the meantime, Farid got attached with Gwin and Dustfinger. He never left Dustfinger’s side. Mo, Meggie, Farid and Dustfinger went to see Fegnolio (the author). Dustfinger doesn’t want to come in so he and Farid stay in the car. Fegnolio finds out that Dustfinger was standing there by the way Mo and Meggie asked questions. Fegnolio goes out and see him and when Dustfinger sees that Mo and Meggie told Fegnolio about him he starts to run away with Farid behind him. Mo leaves Meggie with Fegnolio and goes out. In that time, Basta came and takes them back to Capricorn’s village. Mo, Elinor, Dustfinger and Farid make a plan to help Meggie and Fegnolio. Dustfinger also presents Farid to Resa. She was a Capricorn’s maid who had lost her voice when Darius read her out. Farid saw that she looked like Meggie. While Meggie and Fegnolio were there, Basta finds out that Meggie also has the same power as her father. Mortola (Capricorns mother) wanted to prove that for herself, so she gave a book to Meggie so she could read it aloud and see want happens. Meggie read out a little tin man. Capricorn ordered Meggie to read out the Shadow for him. Meggie and Fegnolio still had time to change the story as Meggie was to read it the next week. In that week Fegnolio changes what Meggie is supposed to read out. He makes her to read that the Shadow will kill all of Capricorn’s men and himself then destroy itself. That day Mortola finds Elinor and shuts her with Resa and Basta. Meggie starts to read the paper and the last part she couldn’t make it out. Mo and Dustfinger had planned another thing but when they saw Meggie they didn’t follow their plan. When Mo saw that Meggie couldn’t read the last part he took the paper and read it. Everyone except Mortola and Basta were dead. These 2 had escaped. Meggie also saw that she had read Fegnolio into his own book. After this, Meggie, Mo and Resa went to live with Elinor. Also Darius was put as Elinor’s assistant. None of them knew what happened to Dustfinger and Farid. They just knew that he had the last copy of Inkheart.
Just 4 days ago the movie of this book was released. Brendan Fraser acts like Mo. I think the movie will be very interesting but I suggest to read the book then see the movie.

Happy New Year!!!

2009-01-03T18:13:00.004-06:00

Hola!!!

This post is to just convey my late new year wishes to you.

I hope this 2009 is a year full of prosperity and good health for the whole world.

It would also be great if all our wishes come true and all the people took conscience and started thinking green.

So, the only thing I have to say is Feliz Año Nuevo!!! and good luck! :)

Lets see what happens. At the moment have fun and enjoy the time.

Posada in our house!!!

2008-12-29T21:01:00.001-06:00

Hi all!
Now I’m writing about the first posada we had in our new house.
It was with all the students who are working with appa in the lab (Argelia, Natalia, Cheve, Ale, Viri, and others).
First we asked for posada (it’s like to ask for hospitality) by singing. This is like a representation of the event when Jose and Mary asked for hospitality from house to house if they could stay there the night when Jesus was going to born. Then we broke the piñata. There 2 boys who are my neighbors also came and hit it and they took more sweets than we did. We had fun doing this because we hit the piñata with our eyes covered so some of us couldn’t hit the piñata but as the piñata was very resistant we had a second round without covering our eyes.
After all these things, we ate tamales!, tostadas, qekiss (muffins), a panque (a type of bread) and my brownies. We drank some very tasty ponche and champurrado (amma made it). Everything was very very delicious, but just a little thing was wrong. It was that my brownies which I got it burnt at the bottom during baking. So we have to make a strong effort to eat them, hahahaha. The normal part tasted good. Argelia made the qekiss and they were very delicious. I saw her making them and learnt its preparation. We bought some of the tamales and others maestra (miss) Agustina brought them. For the tostadas, each person brought something, and we could take whatever we wanted.
While eating we were watching videos on YouTube. Some of them were very funny and we also saw a video of Charice Pempengco. I was impressed with her because she sang very nice. You should hear her songs if possible.
We had a wonderful time!

Summer Holidays 2008

2008-08-15T17:10:00.001-05:00

Hi!
This time I’m going to tell all the things I did in these vacation.
The first 3 weeks I went to the museum to help in the summer course. This year theme was Ecology. So we visited many parks. This time Gera and I helped Flavia with the ensayadores group. In that group there were kids of 6 and 7 years. We told them how to plant a tree, make dough similar to plasticine and other things. In the course we went to Jimulco. It’s a region in Torreon, but its like 2 hours and a half from the downtown. Jimulco was very green and fresh. We went to see the river and the surroundings. We saw an eagle, mapache footsteps and other nice things. We also visited a park called Fundadores. There we saw how they clean the water. We also played games about taking care of the water. Later in the museum, we made recycled paper. We also went to a park called Las Etnias. There we made compost. Everything was fun and we learned many things.
When the summer course finished I went to appa’s lab and helped Sarahi in her experiments. The experiment was about bacteria that grow on oil. I helped her by writing the readings of the protein, enzyme activity and other things. I learned many things. It was fun.
I also went to Kung Fu Panda with Sarahi, Jorge and Yaira. The movie was very funny. I also went to the premiere of The Mummy with appa, amma, Sarahi and Jorge. It was very interesting. I liked both movies.

This was all the things I did in these holidays. All were fun.

Pasatela Super!!

2008-08-12T20:10:00.003-05:00

Bonjour!
This time I’m writing about Sarahi Garcia.
Sarahi is my sister. She is a very good person and also very intelligent.
In the holidays I went to appa’s lab and I helped akka with her project. I helped her to read the enzyme activity, protein activity and other things. She explained me many things. It was very interesting. I learned new things. I also went with her, Jorge and Yaira to see a movie called Kung Fu Panda. It was fun.
Today in the morning Sarahi started her trip to Athens, Georgia, USA and right now she is there. She is going to study Masters in UGA. Sarahi got a full scholarship.
Sarahi is also a very good gymnast. She is a national judge in gymnastics.
We all are going to miss her very much.
See You Soon Akka!

Miss Universo 2008

2008-07-17T20:22:00.006-05:00

Holaa!
Well, now I’m writing about Miss Universe 2008.
The Miss Universe competition started in1952 as a local beauty competition in Long Beach, California. Now it’s one of the most important beauty competitions in the world.
Last year’s Miss Universe was Riyo Mori from Japan. My dad, mom and I thought that Riyo shouldn’t have won because Miss Venezuela was more beautiful. Now Riyo looks better.

This year’s edition took place in Vietnam and the judges were: Roberto Cavalli, Donald Trump JR., Nadine Velasquez, Louis Licari, Jennifer Hawkins, Taryn Rose, Nguyen Cong Khe, Joseph Cinque and Eesha Koppikhar.

This year top 15 where:
Miss Venezuela; Dayana Mendoza
Miss Kosovo; Zana Krasniqi
Miss Mexico; Elisa Najera
Miss Vietnam; Lam Thuy Nguye
Miss South Africa; Tansey Coetzee
Miss Australia; Laura Dundovic
Miss Japan; Hiroko Mima
Miss Dominican Republic; Marianne Cruz Gonzalez
Miss Italy; Claudia Ferraris
Miss Colombia; Taliana Vargas
Miss Russia; Vera Krasova
Miss Hungary; Jazmin Dammak
Miss Czech Republic; Eliska Buckova
Miss USA; Crystle Stewart
Miss Spain; Claudia Moro
After this, these 15 misses modeled in swim suit and the judges gave their mark. In this part Lady GaGa sang her hit Just Dance.
After this they gave the names of the top 10 that passed to the next round. They were:
Miss Kosovo; Zana Krasniqi
Miss Australia; Laura Dundovic
Miss Spain; Claudia Moro
Miss Mexico; Elisa Najera
Miss Colombia; Taliana Vargas
Miss USA; Crystle Stewart
Miss Dominican Republic; Marianne Cruz Gonzalez
Miss Russia; Vera Krasova
Miss Italy; Claudia Ferraris
Miss Venezuela; Dayana Mendoza
These 10 misses now modeled in night dress. I liked very much the dress that used Miss Venezuela. It looked very nice.
Now last year’s Miss Universe Riyo Mori came and told some words. They also showed a video of some things that she made during her reign.
The Misses that passed to the last round were:
Miss Colombia; Taliana Vargas
Miss Venezuela; Dayana Mendoza
Miss Dominican Republic; Marianne Cruz Gonzalez
Miss Mexico; Elisa Najera
Miss Russia; Vera Krasova
This last round is supposed to be very difficult as the last 5 misses have to answer a question that one of the judges makes them.
After some time Donald Trump Jr. gave the cover with the results.
The results where:
Miss Universe 2008: Dayana Mendoza; Miss Venezuela
1st runup: Taliana Vargas; Miss Colombia
2nd runup: Marianne Cruz Gonzalez; Miss Dominican Republic
3rd runup: Vera Krasova; Miss Russia
4th runup: Elisa Najera; Miss Mexico.

Here everyone thought that Elisa Najera could be Miss Universe 2008 as she had won the best body. We also thought that Miss India, Simran Kaur Mundi could be in the top 5. Now everyone is very sad.

The best national costume went to Miss Thailand, Gavintra Photijak. I thought that Mexico was going to win that one because Elisa’s dress looked very beautiful.
Miss Congeniality was Miss El Salvador; Rebeca Moreno.

Mexico has had only one Miss Universe. It was in 1991 with Lupita Jones. India has had 2 Miss Universe; in 1994, Sushmita Sen and in 2000 with Lara Dutta.

Miss Universe is an interesting competition. I like it!

Graduacion de 6º

2008-07-06T18:50:00.007-05:00

Holaaaaaa!!!!!
I’m going to tell you about my graduation this year.

In Mexico the graduation in 6th grade is very important as we finish our primary school. On Friday, 27th June, 2008, our generation (2002-2008) had the graduation. It was in the auditorium of Cuidad Universitaria de la UAdeC. Everything was very nice.

In the morning before the graduation, we went to my akka, Sarahi's house. She ironed my hair and made the hairstyle for the graduation. I liked that hairstyle and all my friends appreciated it too.
First we had the mass and to be honest everyone wanted to sleep as it was very boring. In the mass, Nancy and Mauricio read a passage from the bible.
After the mass there was the change of escolta. There the abanderada (person carrying the flag) told some things (we didn’t understand what she told) to the new abanderada and after that she gave the flag to the new abanderada and like this the change of escolta finished.
After this the director and owner of the school; Mr. Guayo Gutierrez del Bosque, his sister; Mrs. Susana, the coordinator of Spanish; Miss Lulu and the coordinator of English; Miss Silvia passed to the dais. Then Mr. Oswaldo (sports teacher) called Miss. Rocio to pass to announce the list of students of her group (6º A). When each person heard their name they went to get a paper and a disc which contained a video. When everyone had passed from that group, Mr. Oswaldo told who got first place and second and so on. When they had given the certificates to the people that had first, second and third place in both Spanish and English; Miss Grisel from (6º B) passed to do the same and when they had finished giving all the things. A girl from that group, Saidee passed and gave a little speech in english. After that my Spanish teacher, Miss Alma passed to do the same. After everyone had passed, they gave the certificates. I got first place in both English and Spanish. After that Miss Angelica from 6º D passed and did the same. After that Mr. Oswaldo told something about me, that I don’t remember well. Then I passed to the dais and they gave me 4 certificates (1 for 1st place in the Olympics of Knowledge in the our region, 2 certificates for passing in the Math Olympics (one given by the school and the other by the SEP) and other for getting a average of 10/10 in my generation) and a letter from the SEP that congratulated my parents and me for my average of 10 out of 10 in all the grades. After that Mr. Oswaldo said something and then I passed to read a little speech in Spanish. When I finished they put a video that was made with photos we had taken throughout the year. We were all happy and also laughing about the photos. When this finished we played a song called Titanic by flute. When we finished Mr. Oswaldo thanked everyone, and the graduation was finished. I took photos with all the teachers and with Mr. Guayo. Everyone there congratulated me. Dra. Lilia and Yessica had also attended the graduation ceremony. In the evening there was a party but I didn’t go.
All the years from 1st to 6th were fun.

UEFA EURO 2008

2008-07-06T15:54:00.012-05:00

Hiiiii!!!
This post is going to be about UEFA’s Euro2008.

This edition of the Euro2008 took place in Austria-Switzerland. It started on Saturday 7th June and finished on Sunday 29th June. It was very exciting to see all the matches. I liked it very much, it was fantastic.
The teams that participated in the euro were:

Group A:

Switzerland, Czech Republic, Portugal,Turkey

Group B:

Austria, Croatia, Germany, Poland

Group C:

Netherlands, Italy, Romania, France

Group D:

Greece,Sweden, Spain, Russia

After the first round, the teams that passed to the quarter finals were from group A: Portugal and Turkey; group B: Croatia and Germany; Group C: Netherlands and Italy and from group D: Spain and Russia.

The results of the matches in the quarter finals were:

-Portugal 2-3 Germany
-Croatia 1-1 Turkey (1-3 p)
-Netherlands 1-3 (aet) Russia
-Spain 0-0 Italy (4-2 p)

Now, only Germany, Turkey, Russia and Spain passed to the semifinals.
In these matches the tension was very high as all the 4 teams were playing very very good.
The results were:

-Germany 3-2 Turkey
-Russia 0-3 Spain

The finalists of the Euro2008 were Spain and Germany.

I think it was easy for Spain to go forward as Germany wasn’t at the level it had been in all the other matches, but even though it was a very interesting match.

Spain hadn’t won the Euro Cup for 44 years and it hadn’t been in the final for 24 years. So now that Spain is the champion of Europe, all Spain is very happy.

Spain also won another title; its midfielder, Xavi Hernandez was named the Castrol Player of the Tournament for UEFA EURO 2008.

Now many people in Mexico say that Spain could be a candidate for winning the FIFA’s World Cup.

Santos Laguna - Campeon

2008-06-02T21:58:00.006-05:00

Yo Soy Campeon y Tu Tambien (I am the Champion & You too)

Hi!!

Sorry for not writing for a long time. It’s that I had exams and many things.

Well, now I’m writing about the Champion Team of Mexican Football League - “Santos Laguna”.

Santos is the foot ball team from our Laguna region (comprising of our city Torreon, Gomez Palacio and Lerdo). They won the finals against Cruz Azul yesterday (3-2).

Santos was created by the IMSS (Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social) on 1983 and it is a glory that it has won its 3rd National Championship in this 25th year. It was in 2nd division 5 years, and it played its first game in 1st division on 16th October of 1988.

Now the Comarca Lagunera is very excited about this triumph. This is the 3rd National championship for Santos. The first one was in summer of 1996 and the second one was on summer of 2001. Now in Clausura 2008 it’s again the champion. It was Super Leader during Apertura 2007 but lost in semifinals.

The members of this Santos team are:

Goal keepers: Oswaldo Sánchez, Miguel Becerra, Francisco González

Defenders: Iván “Guti” Estrada, Fernando “Tano” Ortiz, Rafael Figueroa, Edgar “El Hobbit” Castillo, Osmar Mares, Juan Pablo Santiago

Midfielders: Daniel “El Hachita” Ludueña, Fernando Arce, Walter “El Lorito” Jiménez, Juan Pablo “Chato” Rodríguez, Paco Torres, Jorge Barrera, Alberto Soto, Johniee García

Strikers: Christian Benítez, Vicente “El Toro” Vuoso, Oribe “Cepillo” Peralta, Mario Sánchez, Agustín Herrera

Coach: -Daniel “El Travieso” Guzmán

Some players in Santos are from other countries such as Argentina & Ecuador and they have contributed a lot for this win.

You can know more about Santos in the following link

http://www.clubsantoslaguna.com.mx/Aspx/

Everyone is very happy because this team deserved the championship.

Amigos de la India en Torreon

2008-03-10T16:45:00.002-06:00

Bonjour!!!!!!!
Now I’m going to talk about our friends Mr. Babu Anthony, Ms. Agi, Achu and Appu.
We met them in Torreon, amma’s doctor told amma that there is another Indian family. After some time we met them in our house, and came to know that they are from Kerala (a state near Tamilnadu, our state). They are very friendly. Issac (Achu) is about 4 years and Jacob (Appu) is 1 and a half years. They are very cute. Appu and Achu played with me, while appa was talking with Babu Antony uncle and amma was cooking and talking with Agi aunty. Later we ate rasam, rice and so on. Some days later we went to their house, there we saw some of their photos and ate delicious Indian food. They also told us that they lived in Dominican Republic and Mr. Babu Anthony had also lived in Bombay, Bangladesh, South Africa, Turkey, Bulgaria and Egypt, before moving to Dominican Republic.

We were sad as they left Mexico. On 22, December we accompanied them to the airport as they were leaving for India. Now they are in Vietnam and we are maintaining contact with them. We are happy to know them, as they are very nice people. We miss them here in Mexico.

Guess who?

2008-02-10T20:55:00.001-06:00

Priviet!!!!!!!!! (hello in Russian, i am not sure of spelling)

?????? dollar award to those who find out who it is!!!!!

Fairies

2008-01-27T18:53:00.000-06:00

Hola!!!!!!!
Do you like my drawings? Please choose the one which you like most and tell me why?

Vacation Cine Festival

2008-01-06T18:49:00.000-06:00

Honichiyua !!!!! (Hello in Japanese)
This post is about all the movies I saw at home during this christmas-New Year holidays. Most of them were very good.
First we saw “Ocean’s Thirteen”, it’s very thrilling and also has funny parts. George Clooney acts as Danny Ocean. Also Brad Pitt and others act here. This is the third part of this series. In this movie they try to break down a new opened hotel-casino. It’s very good.
We then saw “Ratatouille”, this one is about a rat who wants to become a chef. Sometime later it becomes friend of a human and controls him by his hair when cooking. Like this they work in a famous restaurant in Paris. It’s very nice.
We also saw many tamil movies:
“Anbulla Rajinikanth”, this Rajini movie is more or less sad. In this film little Meena has a heart problem and she is also not respectful, so they hire a person to take care of her. However she doesn’t change, but after seeing Rajini she changes. And many changes happen. At the end Meena dies and everyone is sad.
“Dharmadurai”, is also a Rajini film. This movie is very very sad. I cried in most of the parts. In this movie Rajini’s brothers take money from him, put him in jail and other sad things happen. Even though it’s a sad film it’s very good.
"Veera”, is also acted by Rajini. Here he first marries Meena, and then he goes to town to participate in a music contest. First he isn’t allowed to participate in it, but then with the help of the owner’s daughter he participates in it. He then wins the contest. He becomes famous. When returning to his village he finds out that Meena and her father have died. Then he and his mom returns to town. There the owner’s daughter wants to marry him. He doesn’t want, but at last he marries her. Sometime later Meena appears. He then acts as 2 different persons. It’s very funny.
“Mapillai”, is another Rajini’s film. In this film Rajini gets married to a rich girl, without her mom knowing it. The girls mom doesn’t wants her daughter to get married with him , as he isn’t a rich man. After they are married, Rajini challenges his wife’s mom on many things. All those things are very joke. The movie is very funny.
"Rajathi Raja”, is other Rajini film. It’s very funny. Here Rajini double acts. The first character is accused of a murder that he didn’t make, however he is put into jail. Later he escapes of jail to find the truth. On the way, he finds a man who looks like him, and asks him to be in his place. He also says the man that after he finds out the truth he will take him out of the jail and also give money as a reward. The other man accepts. From here many exciting and mostly funny things happens.
“Sri Ragavendra” is Rajini’s 100th film. It’s very good. It tells about the life of Sri Ragavendra. It was very informative. But I didn’t understand many words they said.
“Unidathil Ennai Koduthaen”, is also a sad film. In this film Roja, Karthik and others act. The story here is how Roja becomes a famous singer, with the help of Karthik. But Roja’s family doesn’t want Karthik. Then many things happen. It is good.
“Panchatantaram” is a joke movie. In this movie Kamal Hassan and his friends go to Bangalore to celebrate his birthday. There many interesting and funny things happen. There are too many funny consequences of their trip to Bangalore. It’s very funny.
“Ooty Varai Uravu”, is a Sivaji Ganesan film. Also Nagesh and other old actors acted there. It’s a funny movie. This movie is a very old movie, but I liked it.
“Thamirabharani” was good. Vishal, a new actress and many others acted here. It’s about a family that’s separated, and how they get united. It’s very funny. I liked it.
“Billa” 2007, is a remake of Rajini’s old movie Billa. This one is acted by Ajith. Nayanthara also acts in this movie, among other actors. The film is stylish and it is very fast. I liked it.
“Polladhavan”, is a title of one of Rajini’s old movie. Dhanush acts in this movie. The movie is mostly in a flash back. It was good.
We also saw two dappa (very bad) movies: Cheena Thana and Unnale Unnale. They weren’t good. I didn’t like them. They were super boring.
Hope you liked this post!!
Sayonara!!!!!

The Lost Continent of Mu

2008-01-03T16:43:00.000-06:00

Hi everyone!

I read a book called “The Lost Continent of Mu”. It was very interesting. It was written by James Churchward. Sra. Paty lent us this book. It tells about the ancient civilizations. It says that a long time ago there was a continent where the entire human race began. The civilization in this continent was very advanced. They also say that when a great catastrophe was going to happen, some of its habitants went to live in the other lands of the earth. Mu was destroyed by the water, air and fire and it collapsed down. In the book it also says that the islands of Hawaii and all the islands of that region were part of this continent. In the book it also comments on the similarities between all the great civilizations of the world. It also say that in Mexico, the original Mayans were of white race and that some time later people of dark skin came and took all their things and told that the pyramids were made by them. It also explains some signs from the sacred book of the death of the Egyptian culture. Also it tells about some tableaus of the Indian Culture. It also mentions that the place where Adam and Eva of the bible appeared symbolizes Mu. All the civilization and great people in the history of the Earth have mentioned about Mu. It details many signs of different civilizations and explains them. It reaches the conclusion that the continent called Mu really existed. I came to know many interesting things from this book. I liked this book.

Happy New Year

2008-01-03T16:31:00.000-06:00

Hola!!!

My warm new year greetings to all of you. Hope this new year brings good things to everyone.

Denounce Domestic Violence

2007-11-11T18:08:00.000-06:00

I drew this today for a competition in our school against Crime & I chose domestic violence as my theme.

ALZA LA VOZ - RAISE YOUR VOICE

NO LO ACEPTES - DO NOT ACCEPT

NO TE CALLES - DO NOT SHUT YOUR MOUTH

DENUNCIALO - DENOUNCE IT

Hope my drawing represents the theme.

Reina Roja

2007-08-21T18:10:00.000-05:00

Hola!!!!!!
I read a book called “Reina Roja” (Red Queen). It was written by Adriana Malvido. It’s about a Mayan queen. Fanny Lopez and her team discovered a sarcophagus in 1994, in Palenque, Chiapas state of Mexico. The called that as “Red Queen”, as the bones were in red colour due to a substance the Mayans added to the dead body. They knew that the sarcophagus was of an important person as it had Jade mask and skeletons of 2 other person with it. The two skeletons signify that the souls of these two persons will accompany the soul of main body to the nine worlds, which they had to cross to reach either one of the three heavens. They presumed that the sarcophagus could be mother or grandma or wife or daughter-in-law of a great Mayan king of Palenque called Pakal. Pakal’s sarcophagus was found 50 years ago in the same region. They compared Pakal’s bones and the queen’s bones to see if there was any DNA resemblance. But recently they found that there isn’t any resemblance between them. Hence the sarcophagus could be his mother or grandma. So they think that the Reina Roja may be his wife or daughter-in-law. But many believe that it could be his wife. It isn’t sure who the Reina Roja is yet. The true name of the Reina Roja is still a mystery. But when they searched more to find the identity of Reina Roja, they found many other Mayan secrets in Palenque. This book is very interesting. I liked it.

Parras-Pueblo Mágico

2007-08-12T14:45:00.000-05:00

Hi!!!!!!!!
On 9th August we went to a town called Parras. We went with Dra. Lilia and Sra. Magda. We stayed in the house of Dra.’s friend. We met Sra. Mary (92 years old) and her daughters Lola, Sonia, Virtudes, Aurora, her son Arturo, son in law Sr. Carlos (husband of Sra. Sonia), her granddaughters, grandsons and many other people. Parras is nearly 1 and half hours from Torreon by car. Parras is very nice town. There are many orchards of grapes, nuts, avocados and other fruits.
On Thursday evening, we attended a festival of a saint called San Lorenzo, in which they also organize their fair of grapes and wine (Feria de las Uvas y el Vino). One of the granddaughters of Sra. Mary, Srta. Dora Maria Silva (daughter of Sr. Arturo) was selected as the Queen of the Fair. Sr. Arturo named his son as Rabindranath, in memory of great Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore.
They took us to a place where they make wine, called Casa Madero. It was established in 1597. So, Parras is more than 400 years old town. There we first saw some traditional dancers called matachines. They were dressed colorfully and danced very nicely. Then we went to the Church there, where they offered prayers for the event. The Church was decorated very beautifully.
In the night the matachines came down from a hill with a torch. At the same time there were fireworks on the hill. It looked beautiful. When they reached Casa Madero, they lighted wood fire. They danced around the fire until it went out. Again there were fireworks. It was very good and I liked them. It was midnight when we returned home, but the party continued with dances until morning.
On Friday at about 10 a.m. there was a parade from the town to San Lorenzo (where the Casa Madero is located). The queen of the grapes and vine, Dora Maria Silva, “God Baco” (Roman God of Grapes), princess of the grapes, matachines (one type of folklore dancers in Mexico), and other people took part in the parade. Ms. Dora Maria is the 4th queen of the Fair from their family.
In Casa Madero, the Queen and the princess crushed the grapes (“molienda”) with their feet. This is an old custom to start the wine making process for the year. It was very nice. After the “molienda”, we took photos with the queen and the “God Baco”. I took many photos of the event.
Later we also attended a lunch party in the Hacienda of the Casa Madero. It is a beautiful and big place. The owners of Casa Madero organized this party and have invited all those participated in the parade and their family and friends for the party. During the lunch Mariachi (traditional music group) was also played. We ate lot of sweet grapes of the town and also the traditional sweets of milk, fruit and nuts.
After the lunch Sra. Sonia and Sra. Virtudes took us to see various tourist spots in Parras. First we went to 2 tanks of water where people could swim. Then we went to Srta. Dora Maria’s house. It was very nice. Later we went to Sra. Sonia’s house. There she grows avocados, peaches and other fruit trees. She gave avocados, peaches and other things to Dra. Lilia, Sra. Magda and to us. They also took us to traditional sweets shops and we bought many sweets made of milk and nuts. They were very tasty.
We returned to Torreon on Friday night. I like Parras: Uno de los Pueblos Mágicos de México (One of the magic towns of Mexico).

Hacienda de los Hornos

2007-08-12T14:33:00.000-05:00

Salut!!!!!
This one is about my trip to “La Hacienda de los Hornos”. On 5th August we went there with Dra. Lilia, Srta. Yessica, Sra. Luz Maria, Sra. Magda and Sr. Miguel Angel, brother of Sra. Magda and his family. I made friendship with Andrea (daughter of Sr. Miguel) in this trip.
La Hacienda de los Hornos is near the village of Viesca. It’s the first house that was built in the region “La Laguna”. In that place there is a church which is also very old. It’s the region where there are the cities of Torreon (where I live), Gomez Palacio, Lerdo and other little villages. Las Dunas de Bilbao (sand dunes) is also near Viesca. We couldn’t go there this time.
Though the hacienda is in deteriorated condition, it was nice to see it. It has 2 floors, but there aren’t any stairs to go up. So Andrea, Yessica, amma and me climbed the wall to go to the first floor. From there, the view was very beautiful. In the church there were little statues of Santa Ana (Mary’s mother), paintings and the many other old things. After visiting these places we returned to Torreon. We went to eat tacos in a home restaurant. The tacos were very tasty. I liked this trip. I hope you enjoyed reading about it.

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

2007-08-06T17:10:00.000-05:00

Hola todos!!!
Dra. Lilia and Yessica gifted me the new Harry Potter book. They bought it in Venice, Italy during their Europe tour. This blog is about it. The book is very very interesting. I loved it!!!.

Harry was waiting for the people of the order of phoenix to take him, his aunt, uncle and Dudley to a safer place as Voldemort might be searching them. After his uncle’s family had left, Moody arrives with Arthur, Fred, George, Bill, Ron, Hermione, Fleur, Lupin, Tonks, Hagrid, Kingsley and Mundugus Fletcher. They plan a trick and form 7 Harrys’ with the poly-juice potion in order to confuse the death eaters. Harry goes with Hagrid. In this journey Mad-Eye Moody and Hedwig get killed as they were attacked by Death Eaters.
After some days the family of Ron and their friends celebrate Harry’s birthday in the burrow. The minister of magic came during the party and gave the things that Dumbledore left to Harry, Ron and Hermione in his will. Harry got the snitch that he caught in his first Quidittch match and Godric Gryffindor sword, Ron the deluminator and a children book for Hermione. The minister gave them all those things except the sword. Then Bill and Fleur’s wedding took place. During the wedding party, Kingsley informs everyone that the minister of magic had died. Harry, Ron and Hermione disapparated to a common muggle street. There they went to a quiet bar where death eaters attack them. After escaping they went to Harry’s house (the house that Sirius left him). In there Harry saw a letter from his mom to Sirius. He also finds out that R.A.B. was Sirius brother. So they start searching for the locket. Later Hermione remember that Kreacher hid all the valuable things of the house. They went with Kreacher and ask him if he knew about the locket. He tells them that Mundugus had taken it. Harry also asked how Regulus got it. Kreacher started telling the story. Then Harry told him to bring Mundugus there. Lupin visits them and asks if he could also go with them. But Harry tells that he has to be with his wife Tonks, as she was pregnant. Some days later Kreacher came with Mundugus. They ask Mundugus about the locket and he informs that he has sold it to Umbridge. So Harry, Ron and Hermione decide to go the Ministry of magic to take it. After lot of struggle, they take away the locket from Umbridge. Then they disapparate into the forest. There Hermione put many charms to their tent in order to be safe. Now the problem was that they couldn’t destroy the locket as they didn’t have Godric Gryffindor’s sword. After a quarrel with Harry, Ron leaves both Harry and Hermione. After some time Harry and Hermione went to Godric Hollow. This was where Dumbledore had lived, Harry was born, his parents had died and where Gryffindor was born. They go to the cemetery first. Later they saw Bathilda, they follow her. Bathilda takes Harry to a room and attacks him. She converts herself into Nagini, Voldemort’s snake. Hermione saves him but accidentally breaks Harry’s wand. They both return to the forest. Later one day Harry sees Gryffindor’s sword in a lake and goes for it. But the water was so cold that he was nearly dying. Ron returns, saves Harry and takes the sword. Then Harry asks Ron to destroy the locket with the sword. Then they return back to the tent and tell Hermione about what they had done.
Some time afterwards they visit Mr. Lovegood to get details about a sign. He tells them that it was the sign of the Deathly Hollows and about its legend. Harry understands that he has 2 of the 3 things. He just didn’t have the elder wand. He wants to find it, but Hermione and Ron tells him that they should first destroy the horcruxes. They later return to their camp. There Harry accidentally mentions the name Voldemort instead of telling He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Suddenly death eaters appear and take them to Malfoy’s house. They lock them up. Suddenly Dobby appears, saves Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna Lovegood, Mr. Ollivander, Dean and a goblin and takes them to Bill’s house. But Dobby also gets killed by Bellatrix. During the fight, Harry takes away Malfoy and Bellatrix wand.
After some time Harry, Ron and Hermione ask the goblin if he could take them to the Lestrange’s account. They thought a horcrux could be there. The goblin wants the sword in change. They accept and go to Gringott and take the horcrux. It was Helga Hufflepuff’s cup. They escape in a dragon. The goblin took the sword from Harry as they were escaping.
Harry thinks that Voldemort might have the final horcrux in Hogwarts. He has to kill Nagini as the snake was a horcrux. In the meantime Voldemort opens Dumbledore’s tomb and takes away the Elder Wand. Dumbledore’s brother helps Harry, Ron and Hermione to get inside Hogwarts. In Hogwarts they meet many their friends, who are in Dumbledore’s Army. They help Harry to find out the diadem of Rawenclaw. Luna took Harry to Ravenclaw’s common room as there was a statute of Rawenclaw with the diadem. Harry stuns the death eaters and tells Prof. McGonagall about the object that he was searching and that Voldemort is going to come to Hogwarts to fight. Many people of the order of phoenix come to Hogwarts to fight against Voldemort. Percy also returns back to their family. Lupin tells Harry that Tonks had her baby. He was called Teddy and requests Harry to be the godfather of his child, which Harry accepts.
Later Harry, Ron and Hermione go to the room of hidden things, where Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle attack them. The diadem was destroyed by the fire caused by a spell uttered by Crabbe. Harry and others escape. Earlier, Ron and Hermione destroy the cup with the basilisk.
Later Voldemort kills Snape. Snape gives his memories to Harry. He goes to Dumbledore’s office to see memories of Snape. Fred, Lupin and Tonks die during the fight. Harry comes to know many new things from the memories of Snape. Snape was not really been in Voldemort side and realizes that Snape was a good person and was doing things as per the advice of Dumbledore. When Harry goes to fight with Voldemort, he says Neville about Nagini and that it should be killed. He then saw his parents, Sirius and Lupin in the forest and they tell him that they are always with him in his heart. In the forest Harry pretends that Voldemort has killed him and discusses mentally with Dumbledore. Dumbledore tells him many things. As Voldemort thinks that Harry is dead, take his body inside Hogwarts so that others can see that the Dark Lord had won. When they were inside Harry gets up and fights with Voldemort again. Neville kills Nagini. A rebound from Elder wand hits Voldemort and he dies. Harry wins the fight against the Dark Lord. Harry has the Elder Wand now, but returns it to the tomb of Dumbledore.
Then Harry marries Ginny and nineteen years later they both have 2 sons and 1 daughter. They were called James, Albus Severus and Lily. Ron had married Hermione and had 1 daughter called Rose and a son called Hugo. Teddy was also with them. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny go to King cross Station to see off their children to Hogwarts. There they meet Draco, his wife and son.
I hope you all read and enjoy this book.

Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix

2007-07-16T20:32:00.001-05:00

Hello everyone!!!!!
Now I’ll tell about the new Harry Potter movie. It’s directed by David Yates. It lasts 138 minutes. But it really goes fast. It doesn’t have many things that the book told. But however it was good.

It starts when Harry and Dudley are attacked by dementors. So Harry makes the patronous charm. For this reason, the ministry of magic may expel Harry from Hogwarts. He manages from not getting expelled with the help of Prof. Dumbledore. He also goes to number thirteen Grimmuald Place (Headquarters of the order of phoenix) where he sees many of his old friends and also meet new friends. Some time later they go to school. They see Luna Lovegood. There they find out that their new Defense against Dark Arts teacher is Dolores Umbridge. She works for the Ministry of Magic. As a fact she doesn’t teach them anything. So Hermione tell Harry to teach them defense against dark arts in secret. So they decide that, and many students also go. Harry teaches them many things. Some time later Harry dreams on an attack on Ron’s father. So he goes with Dumbledore to save him. Later Ron’s father gets better. In Hogwarts Harry have occulemency classes with Snape. After some time Snape refuses to give Harry those classes. Umbridge was now the high inquisitor of Hogwarts. She goes to see how teachers teach their class. She fires professor Trelawney and tells her to get out. But Dumbledore says Umbridge that she can’t get teachers out of Hogwarts. So Trelawney stays there. She also finds about Harry teaching. Then she goes with Dumbledore to complain about that. He says he told them to do that. So she is made as principal of Hogwarts and she says that Dumbledore should go to Azkaban. But Dumbledore escaped. Later the Weasley twins also went away and bid farewell with beautiful fireworks. I liked this part very much. Then Harry also dreams about Sirius asking for help. He sees as if he was in the department of mysteries in the ministry of magic. He goes to check if it’s real by calling Sirius by fire in Umbridge office. But she catches him. She thought Harry was going to talk with Dumbledore. Harry was telling that he wasn’t doing that when Hermione told yes. She said they had a weapon in the forest. She and Harry took Umbridge to the forest. They took Umbridge with Grawp. It is Hagrid’s half brother and also a giant. There some centaurs attack them but Grawp saves Harry and Hermione. Centaurs take away Professor Dolores Umbridge with them. Now Harry tells he has to go to the ministry of magic to save Sirius. But Hermione, Ron, Neville, Ginny and Luna say they’ll also go. So they all go there. When they reach the department of mysteries they see some type of balls. Soon they see one with Harry’s name on it and at this time they also see death eaters. One of them Lucius Malfoy tells Harry to give the ball to him. He also says it’s a prophecy. But Harry refuses to give it to Malfoy. After running for some time they get to a type of arch. Suddenly it goes black and then the death eaters have Harry’s friends. So Lucius tells Harry to give him the prophecy. Harry gives it to him. Suddenly wizards of the order of phoenix come. Lucius drops the prophecy and break it. The wizards fight against the death eaters. On this a death eater called Bellatrix Lestrange kills Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black. Then the death eaters go. Dumbledore comes and Voldemort is there. They fight each other. At that time the minister of magic and other people come. Cornelius Fudge, minister of magic is surprised about the return of the dark lord. Soon Voldemort disappears. They all return to Hogwarts and again Dumbledore takes his place as director of Hogwarts. They finish another year at Hogwarts.
I saw this movie on premiere show. It was on Thursday 12th of July at 12.00 at night. Many people were there too. I liked it very much. Hope you all also will enjoy the movie.

My Summer Holidays

2007-07-06T17:40:00.000-05:00

Hi guys!!
In this blog, I am writing about my activities during this summer holidays.
I’m going to a basketball course in ESBAL, Escuela de Basketball Algodoneros de la Laguna (Cotton growers Basketball School of Laguna & basketball team of Torreon). We go from Monday to Friday. We start classes at 9.00 in the morning and finish at 1:30 pm. But we have a recess at 11:30 for 30 min. But from 16th to 27th July, our class is from 4 to 6 pm.
There are nearly 100 kids (5 to 16 years) in this course. One of my classmates from school is also in the course. Few of my school team mates, Karla, Paty, Andrea and Luisa are also in this summer camp. We are divided into different categories. I’m in the category of 11 and 12 years old boys and girls. Our coach is Tony. He is also my coach at the school.
We are practicing many things. We practice defense, shots and dribbling. They gave us 2 T-shirts and told us that they give us a free pass to go to all the matches that Algodoneros play. I’ve made new friends here. It is fun. I like it. Today some basketball players from the Algodoneros team came. We played a friendly match with them. Our group played just for 5 minutes as there are many groups. But we couldn’t reach them as they were very tall. However it was fun. It was very good.
From the 3rd week of July, I will attend another course in the Arocena Museum. I have already told you all that I go to the Arocena Museum on all Saturdays. I help them and I’m getting ready to be a guide in the museum.
During the evenings I just read something, draw fairies (I like to draw these very much) or watch football matches (Copa Oro, Copa America & FIFA under 20 World cup) and cartoons.

See you all soon in my next blog!!!

Maratón 2007

2007-07-05T21:27:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone!!!!
On Friday we had our public class. That was also the last day of school. We first sang an English song, “breaking free”. It is from the movie “High School Musical”. After that we had the maratón. It’s a competition like Quiz, questions on all subjects. We were divided into different teams. Christian Torres and Naina were in my team. There were five teams. Our team answered all questions. After that we sang the Spanish song called “no me voy” of OV7. It was good.
Finally Miss Kate and Miss Alice gave the mark sheets. After that Miss Kate announced the winner of our class House. The names of the houses are same that of Harry Potter, as Miss Kate too likes Harry Potter books and movies very much. I was in Huffelpuff. But the winner was Griffindor. Huffelpuff came in 2nd place, Slytherin in 3rd and Rawenclaw in last place. The difference between Huffelpuff and Griffindor was less than one hundred points.
Then Miss Argentina, Director of our school gave the certificates for hard work and good marks. I got the certificates of first place for good marks for all subjects both in English and Spanish. Miss Argentina also spoke of me in front of all the parents. She told that I am a very good and disciplined girl. She also told that I easily got adopted in this school. She informed others that I knew to speak many languages.
In the evening it was the 6th standard graduation. They gave the certificates and other things to the persons who finished 6th grade. In Mexico we finish primary school on 6th grade. On this occasion, there was the escolta change (escort change). My friends are in the new escort team. So I went to see that. After that we came home and I started my holidays. We celebrated my first prize in the school by seeing SIVAJI, the Boss. I liked it very much. Next day appa gave me a treat by taking us for a lunch in a big hotel. It was buffet system and I enjoyed lot of tasty food varieties.

US-Mexico TIES

2007-07-05T21:17:00.000-05:00

Salut!!!
As the last month was special for fathers, I’m going to tell about appa’s recent project. It was an award given under United States of America-Mexico TIES program through USAID-HED. The award was given for a project appa applied with his friends. Of many projects received, just 5 projects were chosen for the award. This was announced officially in a conference at Queretaro, Mexico held between 13th and 15th June, 2007. US ambassador to Mexico announced this. There were also many people from the US and Mexico government including former US ambassador and at present, the consul of USA to the United Nations. In this project 8 of appa’s students will go to the Georgia University, US and will be work there 6 months to compete their Tesis. There are two complete fellowships for Masters Degree program at Georgia University in this project for students. Achi, thatha and everyone are happy as appa’s project was approved. I’m proud for appa’s award. Details about this project can be seen in the following link;

http://www.uga.edu/news/artman/publish/070622UGA_Mexican_partnership_biofuel.shtml
I am writing this late, because I was busy with my school examinations during last month.

Piratas del Caribe: En el Fin del Mundo

2007-06-10T15:11:00.000-05:00

Hi!!!!
Yesterday I went to see the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” with Yessica, Carlos, Andrea and a friend of Andrea. The movie is very thrilling and good. I liked it very much. I think this movie is far better than the other 2 Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
The plot of the movie is that Captain Barbosa, Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner and many others go to bring Captain Jack Sparrow back. They go to bring him as all the Pirates had sang a song when Beckett was going to execute them. That song makes that all the 9 pirates Lords need to get together. But the problem here is that Jack Sparrow is also a Pirate Lord and he’s dead. That’s why they go to save him from Davy Jones land. To do this they need the map that shows the route to go to the world’s end. The map is property of Sao Feng, Pirate Lord of Singapore. However they rob it from him and make a deal with him for a ship and a crew. After saving Jack, they find that the Kraken has dead and have many fights with Captain Beckett and Davy Jones. They also make a deal with Sao Feng in which Elizabeth stays with him and all the crew is free (as they were caught by him). While Elizabeth is with him, he dies during an attack by Davy Jones. He makes her his heir, Lord of Singapore and as one of the Lords of the Brethren Court. When all the lords get together, they decide to vote for a king of pirates. All the lords vote for themselves, except Sparrow who votes for Elizabeth. So she is made the King. She declares a war against Beckett and Jones.
They tell Elizabeth, other Lords and their group to surrender but Elizabeth refuses. All the lords decide to free Calypso (a sea goddess), who was Davy Jones lover. Long back, once when Davy Jones went to see her after 10 years, she wasn’t there. So at that time, Jones and the Brethren Court together captured Calypso and changed her into human form, so men could rule the sea. At present, Calypso is living as Tia Dalma. After freeing her from her human form, Barbosa ask her to attack Davy Jones. So she creates a whirlpool. Everyone fights against each other. At this time Davy Jones hurts Will Turner. As Jack Sparrow had Davy Jones heart due to his interest to be immortal, he gave the heart to Will to save himself. Later Will kills Davy Jones, frees all Davy Jones crew and he is now the captain of the Flying Dutchman. Crew of Flying Dutchman take the heart of Will and place it in the dead man’s chest. Because of this, Will could see his wife Elizabeth and his son only once in every 10 years. Those 10 years he had to sail the dead people to the next world. At the end, Jack Sparrow is going in search of the Fountain of Youth in a little boat as Barbosa had the Black Pearl. I think there’s going to be another Pirates of the Caribbean movie as Sparrow goes in search of the Fountain for Youth. This movie is very exciting and interesting.

Talent show

2007-05-27T17:31:00.001-05:00

Hello everyone!!!
Now I’m going to tell about the Talent Show in my school. This was presented by many students from Primary, Junior High and High School in our institution on 25th May, 2007. In this show they sang, danced and played many different types of music. They started the program at 8:00 p.m. But I don’t know the time when they finished, as we came home at about 11 p.m.
First, a music group formed by some high school students, played and sang a song (I couldn’t write its name. I don’t remember it well). Later a girl named Pamela, from Junior High School played the violin as in a song called “Molinos de Viento”, it’s originally by the musical group “Mago de Oz”. Then my friend Leyla’s sister sang a Lindsey Lohan’s song. Also my friend Melissa and a friend of hers sang a song called “Me enamore de ti”. Many people sang. All of them sang very well.
In the intermission one of our school teachers played an electric guitar. He played it for nearly half an hour.
After the intermission, some girls from Junior High School danced for a song called “Candy Man”. When they finished some girls from 4th grade of primary danced for the song “Hips don’t lie” of Shakira. They danced very well. Then many girls from Junior High School and High School danced different songs. Later, a girl from High School danced ballet. She danced it very good. I liked it very much. After she finished there was a skit (like comedy). We didn’t saw it all. I knew that after the skit, there will be music & dance by all. As it was late, we returned home before the skit got over.

I liked the show. Hope you enjoyed reading about it.

Science Fair & Mini Olimpiada

2007-05-22T22:32:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone!!!
Today I’m going to write about the Science Fair and mini Olympics in my school. They were held on 4th and 5th of May, 2007 respectively. In the science fair each class presented a theme.
Our class theme was "human body". Our class was divided into 6 teams. My team presented about the Nervous System of the human body. My team members were Sofia Andrea, Christian, Jibran and Francisco. We made many charts about the parts and functions of a nervous system and a model of a brain in clay. We gave folders about the nervous system and sweets to the visitors. We also served tea of the “7 Azares”, which is made of 7 types of flowers and is good for relaxation. My friend Christian’s mother prepared it. Other teams in my class talked about the digestive, reproductive (man and women), circulatory, respiratory and skeleton system. It was fun.
The presentations of other classes were also very good. But I liked very much the presentation by 1st grade students, because the classes and projects were beautifully decorated. Among the 1st grade presentations, I liked I C section very much. They presented details on the caveman. All the students and the miss were dressed as caveman. The decoration was very interesting and nice. It was very much fun. I liked the Science fair very much.

On the 5th of April we had our Mini Olimpiada. On this day we ran 2 rounds in a race around the school. Me and Nancy finished almost together in 9th & 10th place among a total of 50 students. My friend Sofia came in first place. She’s very good at running and earlier she practiced athletics in the City Sports Centre. Our class also won in the basketball match against the other team. Although I wasn’t in the class team, I played for a little time, as Sofia got hurt. I also ran in relay race. I ran 3rd position and gave the baton first to my team mate, but she was out-competed by runners of other team and we came in 3rd place. This day was also very fun.

Mis vacciones de semana santa 2007

2007-05-14T17:53:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone
I am going to tell about what I did in the holidays for Semana Santa (For Easter and Good Friday).
First, we went to la Granja del Abuelo with Sra. Lorena, Andrea, Carlos, Gracia, her parents, aunt, cousins and her grandmother. In this place, there are ranch animals like horses, cows, ostrich, goats, sheep, rabbits and mules. You can feed them and play there. We milked cows, I was scared initially but it was interesting. I liked the Granja del abuelo very much.
Then, we went with Dra. Lilia, Sra. Luz Maria, Sra. Lorena, Sr. Carlos, Srta. Yessica, Andrea and Carlos, to a little town called Ceballos and then to a ranch “La Flor”. There some of their family has been living for a long time. They are in the Zona del Silencio, (silence zone), Durango (a state near Coahuila). Further this comes under one of the biosphere reserves and one of the protected areas in Mexico, called Mapimi. It’s a semi desertic place. But it’s very beautiful. In La Flor there is a museum. We visited it. Though it was small, it was interesting. Then, Andrea, Carlos, me and other children went to explore in a little hill near by. We saw many chameleons and many cactus as biznagas, tree cholla, etc. Then we went to ride on a horse. It was fun. We also ate a delicious food, a type of gorditas (a typical Mexican food) and homemade cheese In La Flor they had horses, hens, chickens and pigs. This place is very good, even though it’s in a semi desertic place.
On another day, we went to Gracia’s aunt house. There we played with the water and soap bubbles in the Jacuzzi. We were there all day. It was very much fun. On the same night we went to El Cristo de las Noas with Dra. Lilia, Sra. Luz Maria, Sra. Lorena, Srta. Yessica, Andrea and Carlos. It is a very big and tall statue of Christ. It is very beautiful. It is the second tallest statue of Christ in the world, next to the one in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Andrea, Carlos and me were playing outside the church. The Cristo de las Noas and the church are in a hill called Cerro de las Noas. From there we can see the view of three cities, Torreon, Gomez Palacio and Lerdo. It’s very nice.
On Saturday 14th April, amma made pongal, sambar, vadai, and payasam for the Tamil New Year. When I got up on that day, amma made me to go first to a mirror, which was decorated with jewels. The food should not be tasted while you are preparing it. We prayed and then ate. The food was very tasty. We also went to Andrea’s house on Sunday because it was Sra. Lorena’s birthday. From the 9th of April we started training basket ball again. I liked this vacation.

The Never Ending Story

2007-04-08T13:14:00.000-05:00

Hi all
Now I am going to tell about the never ending story.
It is a very interesting story.
It is about a boy named Bastian Baltasar Bux who reads a book named The Never Ending Story. He robbed the book from a library. He reads it. It talks about many things happened in the land of Fantasy and also about the adventures of Atreyu, a boy in Fantasy land and Fujur, a dragon. The book also mentions a little about Bastian. He needs to give a name to the infantile empress a name because Fantasy and the world of the humans would get destroyed if a human being didn’t give a name to the empress. He gives her the name of Daughter of the Moon. She gives him a symbol of her named Auryn. He can desire whatever he wants.
He has many adventures with many things. But he also becomes a bit selfish.
He goes to the Marble Tower. He didn’t find the empress there. His friend Xayide a witch of Fantasy tells him that Atreyu and Fujur are danger for him. Bastian tells Fujur and Atreyu to go to another place, but they want the Auryn. Bastian tells that he will not give it. Xayide tells Bastian that he should be the new emperor of Fantasy because the Daughter of the Moon had given him all her powers with the Auryn. So they organized a coronation for Bastian. On the coronation day Atreyu, Fujur and others come for a war. Atreyu gets hurt there and Bastian escapes from the Marble Tower alone.
Now he also has many other adventures. And he learns many new things. He now desires to get back to his own world. To get back to his own world Earth he goes through many adventures. Later Bastian apologizes to Atreyu and Fujur. With the help of Atreyu and Fujur he could get back to Earth through the Water of Life, but Bastian has to give some of the water of life to anyone he loved. He brought back some for his dad. His dad was very worried about him and asked him where he was. He told about his adventure in Fantasy. He also says that he robbed the book from a library and wants to tell sorry for the man there. He goes there and tells the man his story. The man says that the book does not belong to him, but tells Bastian that he also once lived in the story in Fantasy and named the Infantile Empress with another name.
Hope you liked it. There is also a movie of this story. I saw it but I couldn’t write about it as I don’t remember well.

Basket ball- my new interest

2007-03-03T14:21:00.000-06:00

Hola
Yesterday I went to a school named Instituto Alpes, as we had a basketball match there against that school. This is the third game I played against another school. The other’s I played were against Colegio Ingles and Cervantes. We lost to all of them. Yesterday’s game score was 4-35. We just put 2 baskets and I put both of them. The girls of Instituto Alpes put many baskets. But we were happy for our performance, as we have just begun our practice.
I play in the position of “Post” (forward). Our group is of the people born between 1995 and 1996. Our coaches names are Tony and Cesar. The boys’ team played against the Instituto Cumbres. They also lost, but I don’t know about the score. Today our team of boys and girls born between 1997 and 2000 are going to play against the same schools. We hope our school wins in this one.
In the basket class I have many friends there but I play more with Paola, Gracia, Andrea, Roy and Guicho (Luis).
Last week we trained on a type of play style named “Rombo”. Earlier we trained on other types of play called “Uno” and “Cuatro”. In yesterday’s game we used these types of play. I don’t know which school we are going to play against next week. We hope to win.
I like basket ball very much.

Oscar awards 2007

2007-03-03T14:13:00.000-06:00

Hi all
Now I am going to write about the Oscar awards
The Oscars took place on 25th Feb at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. I like to watch the Oscar awards. I have been seeing the Oscar Awards in TV for five years now.
When we went to Los Angeles last year, we saw the Kodak Theater and the walk of the fame and the Chinese theater.
This year there were 2 Mexican movies that had many nominations. They were “El Laberinto del Fauno" (The Pan’s Labyrinth) and “Babel”. I haven’t seen both the movies. I can’t see Babel as it is for adults. But appa has seen it and he says that it’s very good. Appa, amma and myself were sad that Babel didn’t get the Oscar for the best movie and also that the Pan’s Labyrinth didn’t get the Oscar for the best foreign language movie. However Pan`s Labyrinth got awards for Best Cinematography, Make up and Art direction and Babel won the oscar for best music. The thing I like the most is the part for the best animation movie. This time “Happy Feet” won the Oscar. Also during this show, I liked the formation of different figures such as oscar statue, gun, car, penguin, etc. by different dancers. It was excellent.

I like to see the Oscar awards every year.

Despidiendo a Saltillo

2007-02-11T13:16:00.000-06:00

Hi all!
Today I am going to tell about our change to Torreon. We moved here because my father changed his work place to Torreon.
Torreon is a big city. It has frontier with the cities of Gomez Palacio and Lerdo in the state of Durango. But Torreon is in the state of Coahuila. Torreon is often called la Laguna or the Comarca (lagunera). Torreon is very hot and not like Saltillo.
It was sad to me to leave my friends and everyone I knew in Saltillo. Mrs. Doris, one of our friends told that her brother, Sr. Alfonso is in Torreon. They both offered help to appa for his stay until he found a house for all of us. Appa stayed with his family for two weeks. In Saltillo, we went to tell to everyone we knew. In Idiomas we went with Ms. Maru my teacher in the Claai in the English course, with the Director of Idiomas and with Ms. Betty who was another of my teachers. All of them were very good teachers for me. We went and informed Ms. Gaby, our aerobics teacher too. We also went to the house of Khaila, one of my classmates for the Despedida (send off party). Her mother, mother of Alexis and of Ana Karen organized this party. In the school my friends Mildreth, Ana Karen, Karen Jazmin and Lesly gave me some gifts. Sr. Jose Alejandro Torres Tovar, Director of my school in Saltillo and Ms. Violeta, my teacher told that they will miss me. They were good teachers too. I liked them all very much. I am still in contact with all of them.
We couldn’t pack anything during the last days in Saltillo, as it was very cold and it snowed (it was the first time I saw snow in Saltillo). On 27th of January night, we put everything in a mini lorry. The loading took nearly four hours, as we were also packing at the same time. Mrs. Clara, our house owner in Saltillo and her sons Jose Luis, Ruben, David and her daughter Laura helped us a lot in packing things. Previous night Mary, one of our friends also helped a lot with our packing. As we finished very late, Mrs. Clara invited us to stay in their house for the night. We all ate Pizza at their house.
Early morning (4.30 am) on 28th January, Jose Luis and Ruben took us to Torreon in their car. We reached our new house in Torreon at about 8 o’clock. Sr. Alfonso and his family helped appa in finding this house. The truck with our things was there already. We unloaded the things and then went into the city for breakfast. We ate at Vip’s (a restaurant). Nearly one o’clock Jose Luis and Ruben left Torreon. Sr. Alfonso came by afternoon and helped us with gas connection. He and his family, Mrs. Paty, their son Israel and daughter, Eunice helped us in this new city.
I am going to my new school. Its name is Instituto Britanico de Torreon. It is a bilingual school. Everyone is very friendly here. It’s nice. I also like this school. Later I will write about Torreon.

Pongalo pongal

2007-01-14T22:03:00.000-06:00

Hola amigos!
I’m going to write about Pongal.
It’s a south Indian festival celebrated during middle of January for four days. Each day has a special meaning. The days have a name and they are: Bhogi Festival, Thai Pongal or just Pongal, Mattu Pongal and Kannum or Cani Pongal.
The first day Bhogi Festival, people clean their homes and take out the things that they don’t need. They use new things. They also white wash and decorate their houses.
The second day is the first day of the Thai month of the Tamil calendar. It is to worship the Sun God. The women get up early in the morning to make the Kolam (it is a figure made in the floor with rice flour). When there is sun people go out and cook pongal in a new mud pot (it is also common to have the pot of stainless steel). They also offer different vegetables and sugar cane to Sun God. The different types of rice cooked in this day are: Ven Pongal and Chakarai Pongal.
The third day is called Mattu Pongal. In this day they decorate the cows and bulls. They also make pujas to these animals.
The fourth and last day people visit their friends and family. In house they prepare different variety rice like tamarind, coconut, tomato, lemon and curd rice.
We still make Pongal here in Mexico. I like Pongal very much. Happy Pongal to everyone!

An Inconvenient Truth

2007-01-04T20:27:00.000-06:00

Hello everybody!

Happy New Year to all.
I am going to tell you all about a movie I saw on 1st January, 2007. The title of the film is “An Inconvenient Truth”. It’s a documentary presented by Mr. Al Gore, ex Vice-President of USA. He talked about global warming and what we should do to prevent it. He also told that we should care about our planet. He told that he was interested in this theme because one of his professors in college taught him about the importance of the ecosystem and global temperatures. He showed many graphics and explained many things. He also said that the glaciers in Arctic and Antarctic will soon melt as the heat of the sun is trapped inside the atmosphere because of the increase in the level of green house gases. The water could cover Australia, part of China, India, USA and many countries and Islands. This will make many people die and we may have to redraw maps. He also told that this could happen with in 10 years and so from now on we should be more careful, prevent pollution and should leave a healthy planet for future generations. You can visit the following web site for more information; http://www.climatecrisis.net

Las Posadas

2006-12-30T12:49:00.000-06:00

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

2006-12-03T12:07:00.000-06:00

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

2006-11-18T13:13:00.000-06:00

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

2006-11-18T12:21:00.000-06:00

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

2006-10-29T20:49:00.000-06:00

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

2006-10-22T17:30:00.000-05:00

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

2006-10-11T21:09:00.000-05:00

¡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

2006-10-08T21:50:00.000-05:00

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

2006-09-03T23:12:00.000-05:00

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

2006-09-02T16:15:00.000-05:00

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

2006-09-02T15:27:00.000-05:00

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

2006-06-17T15:06:00.000-05:00

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

2006-05-27T16:22:00.000-05:00

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

2006-04-14T18:13:00.000-05:00

!Hola!
Tamil Puthandu Vazhthukkal to ALL

Rebelde

2006-04-08T10:52:00.000-05:00

Hi all!!
Which one do you like more?

Recuerdos

2006-04-04T09:19:00.000-05:00

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

2006-04-03T10:05:00.000-05:00

¡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

2006-03-05T15:44:00.000-06:00

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

2006-02-26T22:34:00.000-06:00

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

2006-02-19T16:18:00.000-06:00

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

2006-02-11T18:10:00.000-06:00

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

2006-02-04T22:28:00.000-06:00

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

2006-01-25T23:51:00.000-06:00

Happy Republic Day

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

La Rosca

2006-01-21T20:28:00.000-06:00

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.

Feliz y Prospero Año Nuevo

2005-12-31T12:12:00.000-06:00

Hello All
Feliz Año Nuevo. I wish you ALL a very very Happy New Year. Hope you will enjoy it very much. In Mexico they eat twelve grapes and make twelve wishes, one for each grape at 12.00 o’clock. They believe that all their wishes will come true, if they do this. Last year I celebrated New Year in India.
Today I am going to tell you what I was doing last year about this time. Last year about this time I was in my country, India. We went there for Christmas vacations. We started our flight on 5th December. Before we were gone to India, we were shopping with our friend Sr. Francisco, his wife Sra. Hilda, their daughter Samira & their son Alan who took us to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon which is about an hour from our city, Saltillo. There we went to Monterrey’s town center. After doing all our shopping in Monterrey, as it was dark we stayed in the house of Mrs. Hilda’s parents. There we met her mother, father, sister & niece. The next day also we did little more shopping in the morning. And after some time we returned to my city. When we returned Saltillo we packed all our things. Our flight was from Monterrey. So we returned to Monterrey on 4th December with Sr. Francisco and his family. We again stayed for the night in the Sra. Hilda’s parents house and on the morning of 5th Dec., we left Mexico. In the morning we went to the airport and waited for our flight, when it came & it was time to go, we said good bye to Sr. Francisco and their family & went to our flight that was going to Chicago. After 3 hours we reached there. We waited there for 6 hours & then flew to Mumbai through London. After we waited for 8 hours, we took our next plane to my city, Coimbatore.

At Coimbatore airport we were received by my achi, thatha, lalitha achi, mani & senthil mama. I was very happy. When we reached our home, devi athai was waiting for us. Aparna, aparna´s thatha, achi & soori mama came home. Then I met samy thatha, shivu athai & ashwini. Later ganapathy mama, santhi athai, janani akka & varshini kutty also came from Kolkata. I played well with janani akka, aparna, ashwini and varshini kutty. We all went to Palani temple & kodaikanal. I enjoyed the trip. We all ate Annapoorna family roast (the big one!). I also saw PTR mama, ganeshkumar sir, madam, rameshsundar mama, raji aunty, shwetha akka, papitha aunty, chandrasekar mama , subhashree, her brother and her parents. Myself with amma, appa, achi & thatha celebrated New Year at devi athai´s house with soori mama, aparna, aparna´s achi & thatha. Then we celebrated Pongal earlier and left to Mexico on 13th January. Our friend Sr. Francisco and his family received us at Monterrey airport and took us back to Saltillo. I was happy about the trip, but was sad. I did not see sithapa, sithi and mishal thambi during this trip. I miss my achis, thathas, athais, mamas and cousins. I am eagerly waiting to go back to India and see all.

Cuatrocienegas - Un bonito ecosistema

2005-12-06T14:52:00.000-06:00

Hello everybody
Today I will talk about Ecosystem. We call “El ecosistema” as an interaction between living beings and the ambiente (environment). There are two types of ecosystem and they are aquatic & terrestrial. I think that if we don´t care our ecosystem, I mean that if we throw wastes into the rivers, it will reach the sea and pollute the sea. If we throw batteries and other wastes on the land, it will contaminate the land and also our water resources. More pollution may cause many disasters as hurricanes, tsunamis, global warming, etc.

!!CUIDALA !!
Our region is a desert. It´s hot in summer and cold in winter. There is a famous and protected ecosystem in our state. It is called Cuatrocienegas. Don Venustiano Carranza is native of this town. He was one of the leaders of Revolución Mexicana and also became President of Mexico. This ecosystem is in desert, but has beautiful pozos (natural wells), hot springs with clear blue water and also sand dunes. I took sand bath in the sand dunes. Srta. Ma de Jesus Alvarado Medina (Mary), a friend took us there along with her family. Her native is Monclova, which is near to this place. A Guide told me that there are some fishes and tortoises (Las tortugas Bisagra) very unique to this ecosystem. It is a very nice place to go and enjoy.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005-11-27T16:50:00.000-06:00

Hello!
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire is a book written by J.K Rowling. She has written 6 books on Harry Potter and this is the fourth book in this series. Harry Potter & the Sorcerers stone, Chamber of secrets & Prisoner of Azkaban are the first three books. Harry Potter & Order of the phoenix & the half–blood prince are the fifth and sixth book.
The director of this film is Mike Newell. The principal actors are Daniel Radcliff as Harry, Rupert Grint as Ron and Emma Watson as Hermione.
Actually I didn’t know that I was going to see the special first show of the film. It was on 17th midnight. My amma bought the tickets but my parents wanted to surprise me. At 11 pm, my amma told me that we have to go Plaza Real to buy a gift to one of my friends. When we got there my appa went towards the movie theater, walked into it and when they asked for the tickets, appa gave the lady three tickets. I was very surprised & I asked appa to show me the tickets. When I saw that, it said Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I was very surprised.
This movie is about the Triwizards Championship. Three wizards for the competition is to be selected by the goblet of fire. Goblet of Fire selected Fleur Delacour from Beauxbatons, France, Victor Krum from Drumstrang, Bulgaria & Cedric Diggory of Hogwarts, England. Normally only three wizards compete. But this time goblet of fire also selected fourth wizard for the championship and it was Harry Potter. It was a surprise to Harry and to all at school. All the four wizards fought terrible dragons, under water creatures and went inside an immense maze. You Know Who (Dark Lord Voldemort) had a body in this film. Cedric was dead during the championship. Who won the competition? I think that this film is very good because it has sad, happy & exciting parts. It was thrilling and jolly to see the film. La pelicula esta muy padre (This film is very excellent & enjoyable). I liked it very much. I wish you all see the movie and enjoy it. I bought a sticker album of this film. I am eagerly expecting seventh and final book & the fifth film.

Viva la Revolución Mexicana

2005-11-20T16:44:00.000-06:00

¡Hola amigos!
Today I am going to talk about the Mexican revolution.
It’s celebrated on twentieth November. It’s a Mexican tradition to celebrate this day because Mexican people started a revolution against their President. His name was Don Porfirio Diaz. He governed for more than thirty years! When he was a soldier he said that it isn’t right to be reelected. But when he got the power, I mean that when he became the president, he reelected himself as President for many times. He told the poor people to elect him as president or he would make bad things to their family.
Some men stood against him were Don Francisco Ignacio Madero, Don Venustiano Carranza, Don Emiliano Zapata, Francisco o Pancho Villa and Alvaro Obregon. Francisco I. Madero and his companions formed an army to fight this revolutionary war on 20th of November, 1910. So that’s why the Mexican people celebrate this day as Día de la Revolución Mexicana.
In this day there are desfiles (parades) in the city and there are kermés (parties) in the school too. This year in my school we danced, sang songs, played cascarones (decorated eggs filled with confetti & breaking it over the heads of friends) & ate many kinds of food. But unfortunately it rained, so everybody went home early.
P.S. I have seen Harry Potter & Goblet of Fire movie on 17th midnight. It was a surprise. I liked it very much. I will write about that & the movie in my next blog.

Mariposas Monarca

2005-11-14T17:10:00.000-06:00

Hi!
Today I am going to talk about Monarch butterflies.
Monarch butterflies live in Canada in the summer. As Canada is near the North Pole, it’s very cold & it snows heavily in winter. To protect themselves from severe winter they migrate to Mexico. They start their journey from Canada in August & reach Mexico in November. They travel nearly 5000 kilometers. They stay in the forests of Morelia, Michoacan & in the state of Mexico. Here they find all the things they need. They sleep most of the time. In February they wake up & start to reproduce. In spring (March-April) they start returning to Canada.
In Mexico people tour to the forests to see mariposas Monarca & their beauty. During tours we should not contaminate the forests because it will damage the living of mariposas. I have been to that place. But when I went to Morelia with the family of señora Clara (our house owner), señorita Karina (our friend, a native of Morelia) & her family, it wasn’t the season. So I couldn’t see them. But I have seen them pass through my city during their migration. If I go now to Michoacan, I can see many Monarch butterflies.
Mariposas Monarca son un orgullo mexicano! (Monarch butterflies are Mexicans pride!)
Note: Appa helped me in linking a web page on monarch butterflies & with the photo, which includes my drawing of a monarch butterfly.

Día de los Muertos & Halloween

2005-11-05T13:42:00.000-06:00

Hello everybody!
I am going to talk about Día de los Muertos & Halloween.
Día de los Muertos is a traditional Mexican celebration. It means day of the dead people. It is celebrated on 2nd November. They celebrate this day to remember the death people. This day also signifies that they are not afraid of death. On this day the Mexicans put an altar where they put the photo of a dead person with the food, dress she or he wore & things that person liked when he or she was alive. In my school also they put the altar to Doña Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez (She is a great Mexican Freedom fighter), because my school has her name. They put her photo with her favorite things & dress she liked. We also make calaveras (skeletons) dressed with different costumes. I made a calavera dressed with saree. It was selected as one of the best calaveras & placed in the School Mural.

Halloween is an American celebration (My father says that this tradition came from Europe). It is celebrated on the night of 31st October. Halloween is a day when people dress like witches, mummies, monsters, Dracula etc. I dressed like a bruja (witch). We go in the streets & ask for sweets in houses or stores, by telling dulces o travesuras (means give us sweets or we will do tricks). We also tell queremos (We like) Halloween. You can also make a spooky pumpkin by cutting triangle shaped eyes, a zigzag mouth & lit a candle inside it. Last and this year, I went around two colonies with my friends Katy, Nasty & their mother, Dra. Ana. We collected many sweets. This day is a very jolly day of the year.

¡Feliz Deepavali!

2005-10-31T02:20:00.000-06:00

¡Feliz Deepavali! para mi familia y todos los amigos.
When I was in India my achi & thatha gifted me, my cousins with lot of crackers, fireworks. Achi and amma also prepared lot of sweets, bhajji, vadai and different foods. Sometimes my cousins would come to my house. We prayed after oil bath, put new clothes and eat a lot. When we finished eating, we lit fireworks and played with my achi & thatha .
Here too my amma prepares sweets and different foods. But I am not able to get fireworks from my achi & thatha. Also we can not lit fireworks, as they are not permitted. But we lit kambi mathapu inside our house.
I miss my achi, thatha, tios and primos a lot.

Feliz Cumpleaños

2005-10-30T01:30:00.000-05:00

My father gifted (introduced) me to blogs on this birthday. He told me that it will be my duty to post atleast one message every week for my family and to all other friends all over the world. You might ask whether I really have friends all over the world? Definitely, yes. Each and every one of you visiting my page will be my friends. I plan to write in English and Spanish in my posts. Get ready for me. See you all soon with more.

My first post is to wish Feliz Cumpleaños (Happy Birthday) to my mishal thambi, who is celebrating his grand day, today at Chennai with my janani akka, aparna, varshini, mis abuelos (my achi-thatha & madras thatha-achi), tios (Ganapathy mama-Santhi athai, Soori mama-Devi athai, Shankar sithappa-Mini sithi, Lovely sithi-sithappa).