My sister sent a couple of costumes to the girls and they were so excited! My girls LOVE Dress-Up... they do it almost every day!
Diya LOVED her fancy skirt! She loves it so much that she wants to wear it outside all the time too :)
Diya is our little fashionista! She wanted everything matching... she had a purple purse and a few other purple things... and she was stressed out that her shoes didn't match for this picture :) haha!!
Aashini LOVES her pirate costume :) She loves playing pirates. Here she is saying "Argh!" :)
The girls posing together :)
Diya is showing off a little bit of attitude here :) haha!
Aashini has had a super fun summer! There are only 2 weeks left of summer now. For the first 4 weeks of summer Aashini went to Shining Star Camp (which she seemed to think was called "Treasure Camp"). It was super awesome! It was put on by her school.
Here she is waiting for the school transport to pick her up one morning :)
This was the last week of Summer Camp... On Friday we got to go to the school and watch them perform and show us all the things they learned this summer. The Shining Star Camp had 4 Tracks...
The first Track was Dancing. Dance is a big part of the culture here and we love it! They taught them multiple styles of dance. In her dance performance she showed 3 different styles of dance (Hip Hop, Jazz and Bollywood I think)... Here she is about to begin her performance :)
Here she is during her dance :) I like the bottom picture... she's being a DJ :)
She always has her tongue sticking out when she's concentrating :) haha!
Here's a VIDEO of the dance! It was awesome! Aashini learned the choreography pretty easily :) Go Aashini!!!
Here are some of the bigger kids doing one of their dances :) They were super fun :)
One of the other tracks of the Summer Camp was "Skills for Life". This is where they learn how to model and showcase themselves :), personality developement, self discovery, mass communication, etc...
For this part of the performance, each kid walked across the stage smiling and waving and then came to the middle, did their "introduction" and said a few lines. It was cute :)
Here is the Video of her speaking:
Another track of the camp was Theatre. They did all sorts of fun things in this track. They did puppets, voice modulation, using props, miming, and all kinds of creative things... One day they gave all the kids magic wands and when they came to the front they would turn the rest of their group into something and the group would have to act that way... pretty fun :)
For the Performance, they did a play where everyone was a vegetable :) Aashini was the Gobi (Cauliflower)... Her hat (which had the cauliflower on it) didn't stay on, so they took it off before she got on stage :) Here she is speaking her lines as the "Chorus".
Here she is speaking her lines.
This is what her costume was supposed to look like :)
Here is a video of the play (Not the whole play... mostly just the part she is in... her part is about halfway through the video):
So... the 4th track was "Sports and Adventure"! This one was totally fun!!! They had an amazing team of sports professionals that did everything. The kids did Team Building Games, Skill Building in Sports and Adventure Sports. In the Skill Building in Sports she did Skating, Table Tennis, learned how to dribble a basketball and play Cricket!!!
Adventure Sports was super fun!! They did Artificial River Crossing (it was a small zip-line from tree to tree on platforms), Rock Climbing, Rappelling and Flying Fox. What is "Flying Fox you ask?"....
Here is Aashini suited up and ready to show us how she did the "Flying Fox" all summer...
Here is the climbing wall (it's 5 stories tall!!!!!)... Flying Fox is an AWESOME Zipline sliding from the top of this tower!!!!!!!
Here's one kid going down :)
For the younger kids, they didn't have them climb up the stairs to the top of the climbing wall to slide down... they connected them at the bottom of the zipline and pulled them up and then sent them down (they kind-of got two rides :))
Here's Aashini on her way up!!
She's super high up!! :)
Here she is on her way back down!!
Aashini is a bit of a scaredy-cat... just the other day she screamed and cried when we put her on top of a camel because it was too high up! She wasn't scared at all on the Flying Fox! She LOVED it! She said she did it a lot! How fun!!!
Here's a video of Aashini going up and down the zip line :)
I've been bad at posting lately, but I'm finally starting to feel good and have energy again! :) Anyway, here are videos of the girls...
This is a video of Diya learning to click her tongue (in the bath) :) haha! She makes some funny faces :)
Here's a video of Aashini playing with a friend at the play place near our house :) You can hear her speaking a little bit of Hindi with her friend in this video :)
Just before the weather started getting hot (I know! I waited too long to post it!), the kid's group at CDC (the chuch we go to) had a family picnic :) Our girls LOVE picnics!
Aashini LOVES playing in the dirt and getting to eat lots of chips and Diya loves getting a juice box :) haha!
We had a lot of fun! The kiddos had a lot of fun playing games. Here they are playing Sharks and Minnows.
Aashini LOVED it! She really got into it :)
cute :)
Aashini's face here is cracking me up :)
Hearing the instructions for the next game :)
Diya being goofy!
Doing a relay race :)
They were supposed to run sideways, but Aashini ended up dragging her friend :) haha! :)
Last week was Aashini's first week of Prep (Kindergarten). She has quite the year ahead of her. They are learning tons of new things this year. It should be fun :)
On the first day her backpack was SUPER full... she couldn't even stand up straight! haha! :)
Adam taking her to school on the first day :)
This is the sign Aashini was holding in the first picture... it was really hard to see, so here's a close-up. You can see how she writes her name on the first day of Prep :)
Talking to their teacher after class :)
This is their weekly schedule. It looks like so much fun! (For those that don't understand some of this... TBL is "Theme Based Learning" and Galaxy is time in the computer lab).
She has 2 other uniforms... on Wednesdays she has Taekwondo and wears this uniform to school :)
Fridays are "Club Days"... there are different clubs within the school. Aashini is in the "Maestros Club". She wears this uniform every Friday. She'll be in the Maestros Club until she graduates.
On Monday Aashini is going to start a new school year at a new school! This past weekend we had her orientation. This year she's starting "Prep" (Kindergarten) at her new school - Presidium. For this year she'll get to stay in the same school building before going to the "big school" next year.
Here is Aashini in her new classroom. (I didn't get a good pic of it so I posted this one anyway) :)
This is Aashini's new teacher. She's super nice!
The school's playground got a new climbing wall! Here's Aashini trying it out :)
Aashini playing on the climbing wall :)
All of Aashini's new school uniforms! The green and denim is her regular daily uniform, top left is her taekwondo uniform (that she wears one day a week) and the middle is her "Club" uniform. She'll be in this club her entire primary/secondary school career. She wears that on Fridays. I'll post pictures in her new uniforms this week :)
Here are all of her new school books and folders (along with 3 parenting books :)). This year she starts Hindi writing! Yikes! Can't wait :)
