About India and exchange

My Parents

My Sister

I don't know what to write...But I wanna tell my Father, Mother and Sister and also my whole family that it's your great decision to send me in this exchange programme. I don't know that what important things I'm learning here, but sometimes I realize that I'm learning a lot, now I know the value of my parents and my sister in my life.

Mother:-

I fought with my mom everyday when I was in India and I'll fight again when I'll go back. But may be the way will be different. May be mom will win in our fight, because every time I won in the fight. Now I know the value of my mother, so may be she will win SOMETIMES. Ha ha ha.
The food that she makes, is wonderful. I never realize that I was having the best food at my house made by my mother. Whenever she makes a new dish; she always call me to taste it.
I'm the taster of my house even I don't know how to cook. Everyday she shout on me about cleaning my room. Clothes and books everywhere, loosing stuff all the time and then I called my mom by asking,"mom, have seen THIS(books,t-shirt,bag etc) somewhere"? and she gives a speech that I'm listening from last 10 years. Now I can repeat her speech about loosing my stuff and clean my room.

Father:-
Everyone says that my father loves Charvi(my sister) more than me and my mom loves me more than anyone else. But on Bombay airport, on 15th of August'09, I realized that it's totally wrong.My father doesn't want my mom to come on airport because she will start crying and I'll feel that I don't wanna go to Canada anymore. But the opposite thing happened. I saw water in father's eyes. He was not crying but his eyes made me accept that he loves me and Charvi equally.
Whenever I buy something expensive here; I never asked my father first, 1st I buy it and then I tell my father and show him in webcame that what I bought. Because in 90% he tell me NO to buy it. But after I show him, he never say anything bad about it. He told me few days ago that I'm not like my mom that I asked him first and then I buy it. Which made me laugh.
Money that he is spending on me in this exchange programme made me so proud to call him as my FATHER. I always had value of y father in my life but this exchange programme made me to have value of the MONEY.

Sister:-
Oh...! Honestly, I never know how important Charvi is, for me. We don't fight everyday, but when we fight, it's always a BIG fight. I love her way to call mom when she thinks that she is not going to win in this fight.Ha ha ha. She always kept my secret as SECRET. She always get so jealous with all the stuff that I do, but she always help me whenever I need her help. I feel scared sometimes to tell her my some secrets, because she is kind of 'typical Indian girl'. Which I love sometimes, but not every time. Anyways, I have lots of lots of things to write about her.
1 day, in skype, she called me, I picked up her phone and suddenly, she started talking about her college without saying HI or something. She said,"oh Devu, as you are not here, I'm not getting good marks for the drawing stuff in my assignment in college". I was laughing so badly.
All photos that she took in our cousin brother and sister's wedding were so good. I'm so glad that she do all this for me. I love my sister a lot more than I used to.

Friends:-
Friends should be the important in your life and my friends are important for me, but not more than my family. When you are not with your friends, you can understand that who is your friends and who is your best friend. I do love my all friends and now I know the difference between friends and best friends. I would love to say thanks to my best friends, for staying in touch with me and friends too.

India:-
I don't know what to feel when I got my tickets for 14th of June to go back. At the very first moment, I got so happy. But at the next moment, I felt that I have only 5 months left in Canada. The biggest dream of my life was to go in exchange. I still remember the December of year 2008, when I filled up the form for long term exchange.Now I'm here and 5 months are over, the 1 semester of the school is over and I got my tickets even, to go back. I feel like time is running so fast. I can not stop the time and no one else can either.I'm not looking forward to go back to India anymore. But I have to.
Anyways, I wanna say thanks from the bottom of my heart to all our family members to stay in touch, send me stuff and always ask about me that how I'm doing.(Masi-masa,Foi-fuva,Mama-mami,all kaka-kaki and all my cousin brother and sister)

I'm not homesick at all that I wrote all this. I wrote it, because I wanted to. I love you all.

Haircut+swimming+movies+Ski...=FUN

Complete ART work....
Guitar Perfomance
AVATAR as 3D movie in Kelowna
My Pendants in pottery club
Cotii and I, Playing with CLAY
My New haircut

Last 2 weeks were pretty busy. So I have lots of thing to write....!
I got tickets for India, so I'm going back on 14th of June. Then I went to watch AVATAR in Penticton theater on Tuesday, and then same weekend I went to watch AVATAR again to Kelowna in 3D. 3D was more fun. I got swim lesson at community center on Friday, I do know how to swim, but I got so slow as I was not swimming from last 2 years. Thank you to my Rotary club for paying my swim lessons. I went for launch with my host dad on Saturday to Indian restaurant here called 'HAVELI'. I had Cholee-Bhature. OMG...It was so good and so yummy.
I would love to go back to India because of FOOD and I would hate and want never go back because of the STUDY. Ha ha ha ha ha. I love study system here.
I got a library card for Penticton City Library (of my own).Then on Tuesday I got new haircut. I'm looking different now. We also had a Guitar performance on that day. I played 1 bollywood song from movie called "3 idiots".On Wednesday, Cotii and I made Pendants out of clay. It was so much fun. We also played with clay Because it was the last week of 1st semester. So there was a lot of clay on the table for recycling.
In last 2 weeks, I watched the whole series of GLEE. It was a T.V. show and then it came on DVD. But it was in 4 different DVD. So it took days to complete it. I went to watch a movie with Cotii's host family. The movie was about 1 French artist and the movie was in French with English subtitles. It was good but sad movie. I don't remember the name.
Friday was the last of 1st semester in school. Pretty sad... because I don't have FOOD and ART class anymore. Next week is gonna be exam week, and then the 2nd semester will start. I have Fashion Design, Drafting, Digital Art, Choir and Guitar in next semester.(NO academic courses at all....ha ha ha)
Today, I went for skiing up to the APEX with Bonny and Bill. They are the Rotarian of my Rotary club here. I got ski lessons from Dr. Grant. He is ski instructor there and also my Guitar teacher. So we already knew each other. I had so much fun up there. Now, I can say that I know how to SKI.(not like the best skier) But definitely better than Vernon, Silver Star. After my ski lesson in afternoon, I went in to the mountain. It was so much good. I was in the clouds and trees around us everywhere with snow. It was so pretty. I was 2000 feet up than I was before(where I was having my ski lessons). Dr. Grant was with me, his job was done but he wanted me to go up there and do the Grandfather's Trail. The Trail was 5 km long and I got so tired after that( obviously ).Anyways Thanks again to my Rotary club for paying my ski lessons money.
I'm really having FUN here and so excited for Revelstoke trip next month.

New Year....:)

work in progress ...."Ganesh" is ready but I'm still working on 'OM'.
Mike, his wife and Me
That's how art class will be look when all paintings will be ready
Berry, Me and Dennis
Jonny Reid during the concert
Dennis, Jean and me


Things are going well here. It was sad not to be with my family on new year...:(
Anyways, I had fun with my host parents and other Rotarians at Community Center in Penticton on new year night. It was Jonny Reid's concert. It was really fun. I went for shopping again after new year. Things were on sale, so I enjoyed the shopping again...ha ha ha. School started agian from 4th of January. No one was ready for school but still, we have to go. I like that schools are open now. But the thing I don't like is HOMEWORK. Anyways, I'm enjoying school and snow now. There was a snow fall few days ago and the temprature was 0 degree celcius. Then next day was freezing because of the melted snow.
The temprature was -7. It was so cold. In school, in launch time; I went outside with Coti and we took lots of photos in snow. That was fun.
In my art class, we are working on our big and last project of the 1st semister. We are painting the roof in art class. It's call ceiling tiles. Every student paint 1 ceiling tiles. I'm making Ganesh(Indian god) and the symboll of Hindu reliegion 'OM'. I'm really enjoying that.
Yesterday was Coti's birthday party and we had lots of fun. We played some games, Coti cut her b'day cake and open her gifts and she was really happy.I stayed overnight at her home and we chat about our host families.
Anyways, It's new year now.I can't say that I'm going back to India next year anymore. I've only 5 months left. I can't believe it. But in my last 5 months here, I found that to be an exchange student is not easy at all. It's a lot harder than I thought. Hats off to the rebound students who had wonderful exchange year.