Rajani's Tale

Dear Friends,

I really miss you! I want to write an email to you so I can say that I miss you. Do you miss me?
Please answer if you miss me or not:____________.

How are you doing in America? _______________________. I am doing well in India. My school is called "The Learning Tree" and I have many friends. But not all the boys - only some boys. The teachers are kind. My teacher's name is Mrs. Sudha Narayan. But I need to call her "Sudha Aunty" and all the other teachers I need to call "aunty."

I have homework to do. I get to read sections of books,
I do Hindi sometimes. I am learning the alphabet, like "ah" "aah"
"e" "eee" "oo" "ooo" and also "ka" kha" "ga" gha" "na." (The letters are different from English)
We have something called "diaries" and the diary tells me what
to do everyday for homework. We study things and I need to draw
the thing that I study in my science book. I studied weather, and
if I studied water, I needed to draw a 5 uses of water like bathing,
brushing my teeth, cooking, drinking and washing clothes. In math,
I am learning how to write "number names" like: I learnt how to write"
eight," "fifteen" and "sixteen." I am learning to add and subtract numbers
like 22 + 39.

I am going to act in a play. I am the "sky princess" and I get to marry the frog! The play is about a man who wants to marry me (sky princess). I live in heaven, but I am not dead.

On Sundays, I eat eggs for breakfast, but on school days, I eat oatmeal.

I started music classes. I go swimming only on Mondays in the IIT campus swimming pool. It is not so deep, except there are two swimming pools
but the one is even deeper than the North Haven pool. It is even bigger
than the North Haven pool. The pool in India is outside and we wish not
to go too late. Then it will get very very crowded. I know why the pool is outside
because it is nice and pleasant. But in North Haven, it will be very cold.

In IIT, where my dad works, is called DoMS (department of Management Studies). When my dad is talking with me on the cell phone, the monkeys will
watch him go out with his cell phone, and they are very curious. One day
we were meeting my dad and a monkey took an apple slice and threw it on me!

My car is an "Indica." You can tell if it is an "indicab" or an "indica" becuse
an "indicab" has round head lights, but we have an oval headlight. The
best of India is that I get to sit in the front and if I sit in the back
I do not need to wear my seat belt, or sit in a car seat. But my car
does not have a cd player, so I listen to my tapes.

My mom will send pictures of my school next time.

love Rajani