Bye Bye, Phone SOLMC#10

“Bye Bye, Phone”

I was held the little pink phone camera in my hands and marveled at it. I loved it, I could take pictures with it. It had rhinestones carpeting the back and the rest of it was a beautiful hot pink.

I placed it back safely in my pocket and me, my mom, and my aunt crossed the road as we saw a truck barreling down the street. We raced across the street and the phone popped out of my pocket. Safely across the road, I saw my phone and tried to go get it. Mom held me back.

The truck

Came

Barreling

Over…

Crack!!!

Tears flooded into my eyes as I saw the blurred vision of my crushed phone. I rushed out and see that the truck wheel had gone right over it.

Of course it couldn’t be between the wheels.

“Bye Bye, Phone.”

I am sulking in this picture. :(

I am sulking here too.

Colors SOLMC#9

Colors

Thursday and Friday were Holi, the festival of colors. This is an awesome festival and our whole family has lots of fun on it.

We walked into the parking lot of the Sai Baba Temple and saw a huge group of people caked in multicolored powder. I walked into the parking lot holding a platter of Gujia (Sweet Empanada like things) Samar was holding the base of a lemonade dispenser filled with cups and a spoon to mix the drink we had bought. We walked into the temple and saw people eating food and washing the colored powder off their faces.

We put all of our stuff down and went outside. Colors flew around us and color was rubbed on our faces. Our friends threw colors on us and smiled.

“Happy Holi!!!!!”

 

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Dead man SOLMC #8

Dead Man, Dead Man, Come Alive…

“Do you know how to play Dead man?” Asked my cousin.

“No… Maybe?” I answered.

My cousin then explained the rules of Dead man to us. We agreed to play and we started to jump.

“Dead man, Dead man, Come alive, Five.”

We decided to shorten the song so we could get to playing faster. While we were walking in one day, one of us suggested going out onto the trampoline and playing Dead man in the dark. All of us thought that it would be cool thing so that night we went out onto the trampoline bearing flashlights and my cousin’s phone. My cousin played music out of her phone and we placed flashlights under the trampoline for lighting and it light up the trampoline with a eerie glow. We played for about an hour under the the stars until mom called us in for dinner.

We all loved jumping in the dark so every night until Riya, Rayan, and Rohan (my cousins) went home we played on the trampoline. Every night,

“Dead Man, Dead Man, Come Alive, Five!” and then silence.

Pani Puri SOLMC#7

Pani Puri

Pani Puri is my favorite Indian snack. They are semi hard fried bread that are hollow inside.

They come with many ingredients that you add into them like, sweet chutney, spicy chickpeas, spicy potato, yogurt, and the most important, spicy water. Pani means water and this has spicy water in it. Puri means the puffed fried bread shown above.  

This also happens to be my cousin Shaunak’s favorite snack as well. Together we are able to finish a whole box of Pani Puri. There have been many days where we have sat down and started to eat Pani Puri.

Over winter break, we went to India and visited Shaunak and his little sister Suhani. Shaunak is about two years younger than me. While we were there, we took a road trip to a neighboring place. We stayed at a hotel and at their restaurant one day they had Pani Puri. Shaunak happened to see them first and he ordered two plates for us. I saw a little later and asked him if he had ordered and if not I would order two.

“No I orderd.” He said.

“Ughh! and you didn’t order one for me?” I asked dramatically.

“Why do you think I ordered two plates.” He asked.

“Have I ever told you how much I love you?” I asked.

We have the best time as long as it consists of us and Pani Puri. Lol. We have a great time anyway.

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The Dolphin Pool SOLMC#6

Dolphin pool

“You all must shower before you get into the pool.” The guide told us.

The showers were on and practically frozen water spilled on top of us. Samar and I rushed in and rushed out, trying to escape the grasp of the cold.

Finally we got into the pool, the place where memories of a lifetime were going to be made. First we were introduced to the dolphin, he did some tricks and I couldn’t wait to meet him. They had people swim out to the dolphin and hold up their hand as high as they could and the dolphin swam up and bopped our hands with his nose. Next we held out our hands and held his flippers and we “danced.” The last had to be my favorite, me and the dolphin kissed. I know, I know, it sounds gross but it was cool.

Then the trainers and dolphins switched, there were two groups and one had the dancing and kissing dolphin, the other had the dolphins that took us on a ride. First we were sent out to the middle of the pool and were instructed to make a “T” with our bodies. (Hands out and legs straight) Then the dolphins came and we held onto their fins and they rode us back to shore. The next ride was the best, we were told to lay on our bellies and the dolphins came behind us and put their noses on the balls of our feet and lifted us out of the water like we were flying! It was awesome. On my brothers turn of the “Flying ride” he made a pose and sadly we didn't  get a photo but it was really cool.

This is a picture of me being kissed by a dolphin.

The Plan SOLMC#5

The Plan

“Ok, I’ll convince them while you are on you overnight.”

“Yeah and I’ll convince them before my overnight.”

Samar and I were coming up with a plan on how to get a trampoline. Since the day we had gone to Grace and Elliot’s house and jumped on their trampoline, we had wanted one.

“See we want one because we love them and it would benefit you too because you won’t have to pester us to go outside and get some exercise.” I told my parents.

“Look we are glad to get you guys a trampoline, the only thing is that I think you guys will use it for about a month and then forget about it.” Dad says.

“No but we won’t do that, we will use it all the time.” I protest.

“Ok…” Says dad.

“Yes. Awsome. Oh My, This is so exciting!” I squealed with happiness.

I couldn’t wait to tell Samar but I had to wait for about a week before being able to tell him. But in that time we went to the trampoline place and looked at trampolines. I saw the one I wanted and insisted that we went with Samar when he came back from his overnight.

About a week later we were back in the store and Samar and I were jumping on the trampoline I loved.

“Mom I like this one the best, its the biggest and it will give us enough room when Riya, Rayan and Rohan come over.” I said.

Our cousins, Riya, Rayan, and Rohan were coming over right after school ended. We planned on having the trampoline by then.

A couple weeks later...

“The trampoline will be there when you get back from music.” Dad told us.

“Finally!” I cried.

When we got back from music it was too dark to go out on so we had to wait for Friday after school.

“Come on Samar.” I dragged Samar out to the trampoline and we climbed on and started to jump.

We laughed and jumped for about an hour and when we came back in and Mom asked how it was, I replied,

“Awesome.”

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Allegiant SOLMC#4

Allegiant

By Veronica Roth

Week 2

SPOILERS!!!

I am still reading this book but so far it is fabulous.

Allegiant is told from the perspective of Tobias and Tris.

Both of them have made it through the fences at the end of the city, but unfortunately, Tori didn’t.

Tobias finds out Amar is still alive and that he faked his death so Jeanine wouldn’t kill him. Amar joins the Bureau of Genetic Welfare, who explain that the Divergent are the are genetically pure and everyone else is impure. Both Tris and Tobias are confused by the new information. On top of that David (the main scientist) gives Tris a file on her mother.

I love this book so far and I can’t wait to get to the end! I would highly recommend this book and series to people who liked the Hunger Games I am going to see Divergent the movie this weekend so I’m really excited! Please don’t spoil anything in the comments for me. Thanks.

Photo Credit: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18710190-allegiant

Stargazer Lilies SOLMC#3

Stargazer Lilies

“What do I paint for mom?” I asked myself.

“Oh!”

I opened my mouth and the word came out, Stargazer Lilies.

I ran up the stairs, grabbed a canvas and my paints. I sat down, took the iPad and started to skim the internet for a good picture of a Stargazer Lily, My mom’s favorite flower. Finally I found it, the perfect picture.

My pencil skimmed over the white surface creating an outline of the lily.

The colors I had mixed just a minute before came flooding out onto the canvas.

The Stargazer Lily I wanted to paint was looking awesome.

I finished around 11:00pm. I showed Dad my painting and he loved it. The tissue paper seemed to fly along the canvas and wrap itself. I was so excited, I could picture her excitement when she opened the gift.  My excitement kept me up until 12:00 that night.

I woke up and wondered if Mom had gone downstairs and seen her gifts. I ran downstairs and found my dad cleaning up so Mom would wake up to a clean house. I said good morning and told him we should make tea for her and give it to her in bed.

We made the tea and gave it to her. I pulled her downstairs and presented her with the tissue paper wrapped canvas.

“Happy Mother’s Day Mom!”    

                

This is a picture of the Stargazer Lily I painted for my mom.

Smoke Bomb SOLMC#2

Smoke bomb

A little red thing that I recognized as an iPad cleaner flew onto my bed next to me. I spun my head and saw my brother in a goofy Balaclava (the thing you wear when you ski that covers your nose and mouth) and a black shirt with black pants. He had a wooden stick in his watch and up his sleeve. Samar held a wood pole as a sword and had another one in his shirt. He ran into my room and ambushed me.

“What the… What are you doing???!!!!” I yelled at him.

“Hoooaiya!! Yaatima hooashi!” He cried.

I raised my eyebrow at him.

“Do you know where Mom and Dad are?” He asked.

“Aren’t they downstairs?”

“No.” He replied.

“Why did you pretend to be a ninja?”  I asked.

“Because.”

“I wish I had a smoke bomb, then I could ambush you and sneak in.”

“We should make a smoke bomb and ambush mom and dad when they get home.” I cried.

“Yes! Okay we are going to need a balloon.” Samar smiled evilly.

“We don’t have any balloons so…” I trailed off.

“Ok…”

“Oooh! We have paper cups.” I nodded.

“Ok do we have baby powder?” He asked.

“Yes.” I grabbed the baby powder and handed it to my brother.

We filled the cup around three quarters of the way full and the rest of the way with powder sugar.

“Are they here yet?” Samar had been repeating this sentence many times over.

“No”

“Where are they?”

“I don’t know Samar.”

Dad entered the house and I gasped. He had appeared out of nowhere and we hadn’t caught him.

I created a diversion by telling dad I saw a deer outside and Samar crept up behind him and threw the smoke bomb . White powder flew around dad’s feet and Samar gently hit him with a stick.       

We got the ambush we wanted.

   

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