Nikhil Kini's Blog

Sep 7th,  2008 - Since the Ganesha festival is on, my parents wanted to visit the Irving Hindu Temple. Today was also my grandfather's birthday and so we decided that it was a good reason to visit the temple. We reached the temple around 11:00 AM and it was very crowded, there was no place to park at the temple. Luckily my Dad managed to find a spot. Inside the temple, there was a lot of crowd and everyone was singing. It was very colorful too. Luckily the main ceremony had not started and we were able to go to the different gods and offer our prayers.  

Sep 4th,  2008 - Today is my Ajja's (mother's dad) birthday. He is in India and so all I could do was wish him over the phone. Have anice day Ajja.  It was  typical day for me, I woek up in the morning and went to school. I like going to school a lot. There are some days when I don't want to come back when my mom picks me up. I usually have a play-date on Thursdays with some of the other kids in the school. At around 4 in the afternoon, my mother took me to the Andrew Brown Community Park in Coppell. It was a very big park and I had a lot of fun. There is a choo-choo train in the park.

I like these play dates because I get to play with my friends. Looking forward to my next playdate.

Sep 3rd,  2008 - This week marks the start of the Ganpati festival and we are also celebrating the festival here. My mother has prepared some festival food and also doing some special poojas at home. I like the Sheera that she had prepared, it was really nice. I was walking around saying "I want more Sheera". In India, my granparents have gone to their hometown of Karwar to celebrate Ganpati this year. Many family members come here for this occasion.

I wish we could have all been in India. That would have been a lot of fun. Maybe next year.

Oct 31st,  2008 - Today is 31st October and its Halloween here in the US. Its the day when everyone will dress in strange costumes and have a lot of fun throughout the day. Our school also celebrates Halloween and we were all asked to come to school in our costumes. My parents had bought the pirate outfit for me and I went to school as a pirate. My other classmates had also come in their costume. Ria was a friendly witch (I called her Hat), Manav was a dinosaur, Khushi was a butterfly and Amey was Spiderman.

We had a lot of fun in school, ate some candy and at the end of the day, Ms Humeira gave us a goody bag with lots of small things like stickers, bubbles, erasers, coloring pencils. What a great way to end the month. 

In the evening, we will go trick or treating. 

Oct 31st,  2008 - As today is Halloween, my parents wanted to take me trick or treating. Instead of going to the homes in the neighborhood, we decided to go to the Grapevine Mills Mall which had Trick or treating between 6 and 8. I think it was a good idea to go to the mall. Most of the stores had someone sitting outside with lots of candy and as we went to each store, they put a little candy in my pumpkin. We went around the mall and I wished everyone "Happy Halloween" and collected my candy. There were so many kids in the malll, it was a lot of fun. Some grown-ups were also dressed in their Halloween costumes.

This is a fun holiday and a great way to end the week. Can't wait until next year to go trick-or-treating.