Dec 26, 2004

Hansag came back, mama went back...

Harshu Mama’s flight was at 10 something this morning. Mom asked him whether or not it was on time, but he did not bother checking. Papa and I dropped him at the airport by 8:30 (I believe), got back home, and went to sleep again. I got up at around 3 and found out that Harshu Mama’s flight was indeed late. He was cutting time at the airport.

We got Hansag from the camp yesterday. On our way there, Harshu Mama connected his iPod to the car and we listened to some oldies that he had. After reaching the camp sight, all four of us (Papa, Mom, Mama and I) were shocked to see what they had done to the kids. Girls were yelling, “hum Bharat ki naari hain, phool nahi chingari hain!” After their presentation, a couple of adults talked about some stuff. This one lady was really passionate about her Indian heritage and was trying to convince the parents not to be afraid of how their kids are going to handle India, but let them cope with it themselves. She was the only person whose words I could actually understand. All the others need major speech classes!

At first, Hansag was not behaving properly and was very disrespectful, but slowly it got better. After getting home, Papa went somewhere and the rest of us fell asleep while watching the movie “Taking Lives.” Harshu Mama woke everybody a couple of minutes before the bread was to be taken out. So, we started the movie again and had bread and orange juice.

My dear Hansag brother has changed quite a bit after the camp. I was surprised to see him sitting online and not reading sports news. He was reading about Lord Vishnu and other Hinduism related things. I am learning quite a bit from him :).

Dec 19, 2004

seven-day-yoga camp

We were supposed to get at that seven-day-yoga camp by 2 pm, but we started out at 2:45 and reached after 5. Hansag was to be dropped there, because Nana suggested it would be good for him. I was not planning to stay there because I wanted to rest and only rest during the 2-week vacation. After Mr. Pathak told us what they were going to do at the camp, I was really wishing to stay there. They were going to have a lot of discussions about Hinduism and India. First of all I love discussions and second, I don’t know much about either of these things and want to learn more about them. On asking papa whether I could stay or not, he simply said no. I decided to go sit in the car for the rest of the time we were there.

On our way back I did not say much. A few words that did come out of my mouth were all sarcastic. On papa’s asking, “When and where did you have Steak-n-Shake’s shake?” I responded by saying the word “no”. When we started out on the road I murmured the words, “acha hai, mujhe hi aur arguments mil rahe hain.”

aaj ka kaam kal karo, kal ka kaam parso
pralay-vralay koi hone ka nayi, thahar jao barso

After getting back home I played the movie “Dhoom.” Papa joined me, while mom sat in her room reading a novel.