Easy DC 2
Today has been a lot of monument and memorial visits. I forgot to mention that the Statue of Liberty has been dubbed `Liberty Aunty” by our kids. A little bit of the Indian fraternal flavour to the lady.
The kids are settling down with ease to the walk abouts and the Metro rides. Their easy acceptance of the new makes the novelty of any freesh experience last for just a few minutes after which it already is in the realm of the familiar and old. My mosquitoes Mohit, Ashish,Junaid,Puneeth and Aditya are steady in their pursuit of the unusual in all things noise or automobile related. They either create the decibels or respond to anything that does. The Ferraris, the Yamahas have had more camera space than the W’ton monument or the Abe Lincoln memorial. Karthik has been elevated to Bumble Bee status from the Mosquito cadre courtesy his general dominance of the rest of his troop and the visible enhancement of his confidence level.
W’ton AIr and Space Musuem offers a good menu of 3d movies one of which `3d Sun’ we saw today. The general pronouncement from the teen tribe has been `awesome’.
The weather has been cloudy but great for walking and apparently eating. The proof of the pudding are the several clean plates we get to see.
We have had a lot of the locals stop and ask our kids questions of where they are from and what our agenda is. They have been only too happy to launch into the NASA speech as well as impressing everybody with their general confidence and congeniality.
Tomorrow there’s some more sight seeing and the day after we leave for Huntsville for the last leg of our journey and the most significant one to which our T-shirt proclamation will bear witness-SVM NASA 2008.
A note to all who may be reading these blogs-. These posts are often written in the wee hours of the morning and generally sans my lenses/glasses… hence the typos most unbecoming of an English major not to mention Teacher. Apologies. Spell check is sometimes not checked on my toolbar!
Signing off for now,
hemaa narayan
May 28th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Dear Mam,
Happy to know that you all have reached safely. Delighted to go through the interesting letter which made us feel the enjoyment of every moment of your stay there.The ‘Wah’ experiences made us mentally travel along the places.
At school things are going fine with new teachers joining us and the team is preparing to welcome the kids (hordes of mosquitoes !!)
Missing you all.
Higher Primary Unit staff
May 29th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
A wonderful experience of Washington & NewYork through your travel talk. Nice to note that you are having a wonderful time there with teachers and Mosquitoes. Eager to experience the NASA Space Camp from SVM Campus thro’ travel talk. Have a Nice time.
Computer Section
May 29th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Dear Madam,
We have been going through your posts on the blog regularly. It has been worded so well that we can feel your experience. We wish ‘ Astrorockers’ the Best.
SVM Office staff