Nikhil Kini's Blog

Aug 13th, 2011  - Raksha Bandhan, is a festival primarily observed in India, which celebrates the relationship between brothers and sisters.  The central ceremony involves the tying of a rakhi (sacred thread) by a sister on her brother's wrist. This symbolizes the sister's love and prayers for her brother's well-being, and the brother's lifelong vow to protect her.

Aug 6th, 2011  - For the last year,my parents have been signing me up for the Build and Grow sessions at Lowes. Lowes has these session once every 2 or three weeks but Home Depot has them only on the 1st Saturday of every month. Today as the first time we were able to go. Unlike Lowes, you don't have to register with Home Depot. You just have to show up.

The Home Depot sessions are from 9 AM - noon and we showed up at around 9:30. It was quite packed and very busy. We stood in line to register and get our kit which was a pencil box today (everyone is having a Back to School theme). The box could be built with only a couple of steps but it was rather difficult to push the nails in. I did need my dad's help on this. The Lowes kits are much easier for kids my age. After we built the box, came the fun part of coloring the box. We chose the Home Depot color, Orange for the main color and then used green for the lid.

One of the nice Home Depot helpers gave me a plate with the colors and a nice brush. This was the first time I was able to paint something and it was a lot of fun. My hands and face were all messy but I guess thats the fun of it. After we completed the painting, I collected my certificate and my pin which I attached to my apron.

The next one at Home Depot will be in September.

July 31th, 2011  - Today is the last day of July and my parents took me to a water park near our house called the Hawaiian Falls. My parents wanted to go there for a long time but we were just not able to make it. We went with my friend Sidharth and his family and my other friends Sachet and Sunchit and their parents. We first went to Jason's Deli for lunch and then headed to the Hawaiian Water Falls. We got there around 2 and it was really hot so we headed right to the Wave Pool (Bay Breaker). The Wave Pool is a nice place to just hang out and wait for the waves. If you are lucky to find a tube, you can have more fun with that. We spent an hour there and then went to Kona Cooler where you can take a walk.

After the walk, we went to the place where kids my age and height can slide and have more fun, the Keiki Cove. There is a lot of water there and 3 big slides.

July 29th, 2011  - Today, 29th July 2011 was my last day at Rockbrook Montessori (now called Our Kids Montessori) in Lewisville. I have spent three years of my life at this school and have learned so many things. My first week was a bit confusing but after that I really loved going to Rockbrook (except for a few weeks when they tried to get me to take a nap).

I want to thank all my wonderful teachers

Grasshoppers - Ms Lindsey, Ms Humeira, Ms Zubi

Lady Bugs - Ms Nasreen, Mr Archana and Ms Zainab

Bumblebees - Ms Rumya, Ms Suma, Ms Huma, Ms Kalyani, Ms Shirin and Ms Sandra

Arts - Ms Ekta and Ms Avli

Spanish - Ms Nitya

July 24th, 2011  - I declared today, July 24th, 2011 as the official Puzzle Day at our house. You may wonder what inspired me to do that. We had some friends over for dinner and one of my friends, Sameeksha and I took out a box of puzzles and completed about 4 puzzles and there were 8-10 more left so I decided to finish them all this today. These were puzzles about horses, dinosaurs, steam engines, musical instruments etc. I also pulled out my big world map puzzle which took me a while to complete. I then into my Handy Manny puzzle which is a puzzle with Handy Manny, Mr Lopart, Kelly and all the tools. I finished the puzzle day with the most difficult puzzle I have, the US Presidents.