From Shoba Hello everyone! Hope all of you are fine. I did not find many postings and that disappointed me. Any way the past weekend was very busy. On friday Avanthika had the 'Science Alive' programme in school as 28th feb is always celebrated as National Science Day in India. I had been to her school to see all the experiments presented by the children. It was so surprising and exciting to see the many many simple but interesting experiments being demonstated by the children. The whole school was decorated with posters and charts of all the famous scientists. Avanthika and her friend showed the working of the Solar Clock. The next day (saturday) , Avanthika was taken through her school's art club to the Lalit Kala Academy to view an exhibition of the art works done by very famous artists. She was back by 12.30pm. After lunch we had to rush for the music performance in our colony's community hall. We reached there by 2.40pm. The programme started by 3.00pm and went on till 6.00pm. In all about 50 children in the age group of 5 to 15 sang many many songs both individually and as groups. Avanthika sang 3 songs. In between we were served with hot coffee, sundal, kesari and fruit salad( all the arrangements both at the hall and food were done by her music teacher with funds contributed by all the students). Raja reached chennai only at 12.30pm on that day because of his flight delay but was lucky enough to reach in time for the programme. The whole evening was a feast for the ears and mouth. The next day (sunday - lazy day, as I always call it) started late. I made pooris and subzi for lunch. In the evening we went for the bharathanatyam arangetram(it is the first solo performance that any student gives after they reach certain level in dance) of one of the senior students in Avanthika's dance school. It was a 3 hours programme and the dancer did extremely well. When we came out of the hall it was almost 9.30pm. We had hot hot chilly bajji and soup as a starter to finish off the dinner at home. So though it was very hectic it was always fun to do different things. The days have become hotter here in chennai. Avanthika is busy with her school work as her annual exams are likely to begin by the end of this month. Thats it for now. Will catch up with all the details later. Bye and take care all of you.