The Past...

Hi,
Here are some pics of the past...

                                          Benjamin!

                                          Maggie and I!

                                                    Linda!

                                                    Zac (Zaccy)

                                                    Zac

                                                    Sameena

                                                    Nora and I!

                                                    Little Nora!

                                            Leigh and Benjamin!

                                          Santoash

                                          Me chasing Janelda during Holi!

                                                      Sam, Benjamin, and I on a luggage kart!

                                          Linda and Sam!

                                          Rene, Terry, Martin, and I!

                                          Martin, Rene, and I!

                                          Leigh, Benjamin, Janelda, Zac, Linda, Maggie, Grandma Grimes, Sam, Me, and a few others during Holi!

                                          (Can't remember name,) Dad, and I playing BB!

                                                       Everyone playing BB (basketball)!

                                          More Holi!

                                                       A camel at Mahabalesshwar!

                                          Martin, Rene, and I!

                                          More Camels!

                                          A cow on the street!

                                          Easter with, Zac, Nora, Jakob, Sahan, Sameena, Benjamin, Anicka, Andria, and Maggie!

                                          Type of India plate! (Banana Leaf!)
          

                                          Indian celebration for a new home.

                                                    Maggie and her sister!

                                          Decorating for my 11th B'Day!

                                                    Making boats for the pool!

                                          My Birthday Morning!

                                          Drinking a cappuccino on my B'Day!

                                          Sweet Benjamin and Rene singing Happy Birthday to me!

                                          Swimming after breakfast!

                                          My Birthday cake!

                                          Benjamin helping open my birthday presents! (:

                                          Hulga taking a picture, well being taken a picture of!

                                                       Sweet Herebert!

                                                       Cute Sahan!

                                          Going to the Westin for Mother's day!

                                          Rene driving with Benjamin!

                                          Me, Zac, Andria, Sam, and Benjamin!

                                                    Adorable Benjamin!

                                                    Adorable Zac!

                                          Sam and I!

                                          Neni, Sam, and I.

                                                    Sleeping Benyamin!

                                          Andria and Benjamin!

                                          Benjamin and Rene!

                                          Mommy and Daddy at the Taj Mahal!

                                          Sam, Neni, Me, Mommy, and Daddy at the Taj!

        

                                                       Jon and Kate!

                                                       Me!

                                          Daddy and Sam!

                                          Benjamin!

                                          Benjamin!

                                          Zac and Sam!

                                                       Benjamin and Leigh!

                                          A building that was being built!                                          

                                                       A bucket of radishes!

                                          Benjamin picking strawberries!

                                          Daddy, Sam, Me, and Mommy!

                                                       Sam, Theo, and I!

                                                       Sam and I!

                                                   Nora and I!

                                                       Lena and I!

                                          Sam and I!

                                          Me, Zac, Sam, and Benjamin!

                                          Lena!

                                                    Little, cute, Maggie!

                                                   Laura and Kate!

Well, that pretty much wraps up a lot of the past!  We miss you guys!
Have a great day/night everybody!
Mak

My Life =)

Hi,

Lots has been happening since I last posted!

Christmas was a lot of fun and since I was sick for more than a week I had almost 3 and 1/2 weeks off of school!!!  We had a lot of fun and did some fun things!  As some as you have already seen we made a video to the song Feel Again by One Republic with some of our great friends who used to live in our neighborhood Megan, Lauren, and Hannah!   It was a lot of fun and it was great to see them again!  Here is the link...
http://youtu.be/UNtg4DJzSaQ
We also got to go see Jon, Laura, and Kate for Kate's 2nd birthday!  Happy Birthday "KK"!!!  It was great to see them again!  We miss you guys!

School has also been going very well and I am having a lot of fun!  I am now sitting with 4 boys at my table (pretty exciting), but thankfully they are all pretty nice!  Two weeks ago Mrs. N*****was on vacation so we had a sub Mr. Y*** who was very nice and also very funny!  He had this thing that he would say, "spring a leak!" and everyone would make a sound like  a pipe was leaking which is also the same sound as when you are telling someone to be quiet. Shh! Today at lunch I was sitting across from two girls Helen and Ally and somehow got into the conversation of how I don't eat meat.  Here's how it went...

The lunch today was fish sticks at school and I of course, didn't get them.  Izzy and I were talking about how I wouldn't eat them and Ally and Helen looked up at me strangely. 

"Oh, I don't eat meat," I told them.

"Oh," Ally said, "So like, you can't drink pop?"

"No, I can drink pop!" I said laughing.

It was pretty funny!

One day while Mr. Y*** was teaching our class everyone was getting a little tired so he made everyone stand up and do different exercises!  One of them was from the very funny music video, Gangnam Style!  Before this he had handed out little tickets and throughout the day he would look around for the misbehaving kids and take away their tickets! There is this one boy in my class who didn't participate in the exercises and Mr. Y threatened (jokingly), to take one of his tickets away if he didn't start doing the moves.  It was pretty funny!
Mom bought Sam and I each a pair of very funny glasses with fluffy eyebrows and a big nose!  I took these to school, and when Mr. Y saw them he said he would give our group 1 extra point when we reviewed our social studies if I wore the glasses!  It was pretty funny, and my group appreciated it, except he said that he would give us a full point, but only gave us 1/2!   It was still cool though.  He was pretty nice!

Mrs. N is back! (She's our normal homeroom teacher)  It's nice to have her back, and now everything is back to normal.  Everyday we have to pick our chairs up so the custodians can easily clean.  There is this one boy, Clyde, who is pretty nice and one morning I walked in and my chair was down.  I said, "Didn't I put my chair up?" and he said, "Oh yeah, we took it down for you."  It was pretty funny! (and sweet!=)

Violin is going well and so is choir.  Just recently I was chosen for an honors choir along with some other kids, and we had to go on a trip to perform a concert about an hour away. We left at about 7:45 in the morning and arrived at our destination at about 9:00.  We practiced the music until about 11:30 and then whoever wanted to, could audition for a solo in one of the songs.  It would be a group solo,  and I decided to try out.  Then we went to lunch (Subway) and had about an 1 hour 45 minute break, and then we returned to practice.  Happily for me I got the solo along with four other kids from our district and a few more from other districts.  It was pretty exciting.  We sang 5 songs, Alleluia (not the alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, one...it was different,) Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretal, Put On Your Sunday Clothes, from Hello Dolly, Away From The Roll Of The Sea (which I got the solo for,) and last but not least, Every Time I Feel The Spirit.  It was a lot of fun! I also met two very sweet girls (5th grade) that unfortunately do not go to our school district.  It was a great experience and I will definitely remember it.

Well, this is what's been happening around here. Pretty boring right. (HeeHee:)

Have a great day/night wherever you are!
Bye for now!

Feel Again

 



Hi,
This past couple days Megan, Lauren, and Hannah came down to visit and it was a lot of fun!
While they were here we created a video to the song "feel again" by "one republic."  Unfortunately Hannah was at a friends house so she is not in this video.
Thanks for the awesome time guys!
I hope you enjoy!

http://youtu.be/UNtg4DJzSaQ
 

I'm back!

Hello,
It's been forever since I last posted so I apologize and hopefully I will be writing a little more often now that we are FINNALY on Christmas vacation!!!!!   ONLY THREE DAYS TILL CHRITMAS!!!!!!!   Yeah!   A lot of things have happened since I last posted, I mean a lot...

1. We had our first Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestra concert
2. We play with Mark Wood for a Christmas concert
3. Daddy is back from India for good (woohoo)
4. I to chosen to sing a solo (with a few others) at the choir concert
5. I got chosen for a honors choir
6. We had thanksgiving
7. Sam broke her wrist ice skating :-(
8. I had my orchestra (for school) and choir concert
9. And at that concert I was by someone who came down with the whooping cough and being that there might be a chance that I had it I am not allowed back in school until after break...

Izzy, Lina and I

Hopefully I will write soon!

If not before Christmas, have a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Mak

10. IT SNOWED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11. We sadly had to say goodbye to some good friends of ours Laura, John, and Kate...we miss you guys!

Hi!

Hello Everyone!
I'm sorry I haven't blogged in a very long time...);
Things have been going well here in the USA!  Not quite as exciting as India, but oh well there are some interesting things happening! 

                      School is going well and we just recently had a Fall Frolic (Fall School Pary/Activity) which had food, drinks, games, a rock band, face painting, a cake walk, and other lots of fun things!  I got a zebra face painting (I know, it's hard to picture) Sam got a cat face painting (easier to see!) and Isabelle (She is a friend of mine from School) got a butterfly painting!  Benett (A friend of ours in 9th grade who we know from orchestra, school, etc...) he got a famous painting I forgot what it's called, but anyway it was pretty funny...

                    Daddy is back from India for 2 weeks and It is great to have hime back!  Although at the present he is at a couple meetings about 3 hours away until tomorrow!  He will be back for good before ThanksGiving so at least we will get to spend that with him!!!

                   Orchestra is going amazing and it is a lot of fun!  Since Sam and I are both in the higher groups in the quadcities we get to perticipate in the Holiday Fun at a big building that is pretty popular!!!  So that is awesome!!!  Our concert is coming up very soon and I am looking foward to it, but I am also a little nervous!

                   We also have a school choir that I am participating in in the mornings!  It is pretty fun and we are singing some of my favorite christmas songs!!!  We get to sing the Alvin and The Chipmunks song Christmas Time Is Here!!! And the song from The Charlie Brown Christmas!!!

                  Well, I have to go!  Have a great day/night! 
Mak!

School Days part 2

Hey everyone!
How are all of you? Hopefully fine:)
School is going pretty well! My favorite classes are math, science, and P.E., but I like them all! There is a boy In 6th grade (Mrs. Betts class) that looks like a big Benjamin!!! The 1st time I saw him he looked so much like him that If he was any smaller I would've mistaken him for Benjamin:) It is kind of funny!! The other funny part is that he was home-schooled! There is a girl named Jenna who is pretty sweet! Linnzie is also sweet! Isabelle also!!! I sit with Alex, Jennifer, Peyton (boy), and Donavan at my table group! They are all pretty nice!
Again, I miss all of my little kiddos and wish they were here...:(
Talk to you later...

Mak:)

This is Julie's baby!!!
And Laura and Kate!