March 18 and 19th, Old Delhi and New School Stuff!

On Tuesday, we went to the Delhi Metro station to go sightseeing in Delhi. This is the metro map.

Our first stop was the Jama Masjid, which is the largest mosque in India. It's in Old Delhi

Our next stop was the Red Fort, which was built by Moghul Emporer Shah Jahan in the 17th century. This is one of the buildings....

And these are the kinds of weapons and armor that they used to fight battles

This is the throne chair that the Emperor would sit on to greet people and hear their complaints and below is the hall where he would meet them. 

Here's me drinking a Pepsi outside the Red Fort because I was really dehydrated, so mommy let's me drink soda!

This is me taking a nap in the Red Fort.

After the Red Fort we went to Connaught Place, which is inner Delhi. This is the Indian Flag

The next day we went to my new school to pay my tuition and meet the principal. This is Joe mama, me and mommy waiting in the lobby of the school.

This is a school bus that shows the name of my new school, St. Francis.

This is an awesome pen I got yesterday in Old Delhi when we went to the Jama Masjid and Red Fort. It only cost 10 rupees, which is 18 cents!

This is the logo for my St. Francis school. It says "Inform, Form, Transform."

In India, to go to school, you have to buy your own books and uniform. This is me right in front of the counter in the school book store. My books cost over 3,000 rupees, which is $60. I needed about 15 books!

This is the name of the book shop.

This is me trying on my school uniform shirt.

This is Kullu my sister-cousin who is putting on her new school shoes. She's going to the same school as me!

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This is me trying on my school uniform pants at the shop.

These are my gym shorts for gym class.

This is me trying on my school shoes.

This is Joe mama and Kullu outside of the school uniform and book shops. He's making a funny face and then Kullu is making a frowny face.

 

This is one of my friends on the street where I live. We were playing with my camera and I got a few good shots like this one, and the one below.

Holi in India! March 15-17

This  is me at home with my pet hamster. She is only 3 inches long. Her name is Nibblemouse. I am saying goodbye to her.

 This is my mom's friend, his name is Joe. He is going to be living with us in India for 2 weeks. This is him in the car on the way to the airport.

This is me in the airplane to Newark. We almost missed our plane from here to India! We had to run through the airport from Concourse A to C in 10 minutes.

This is me watching Frozen in the airplane to India. It had Arabic subtitles but it is in English.

This is Joe and me in our home in Ghaziabad, India. In this house live Dadaji, which is grandpa, Dadima, which is grandma, Lovely chachi who is my uncle's wife, my uncle Santosh chacha, and Kulu, my cousin and the new baby Ashish.

Here is baby Ashish

This is Kulu with my Kindle.

This is me in a mosquito net tent on the bed so we don't get bitten by one of the many mosquitos at night when we're sleeping.

The next morning we went for a walk at 5 am. This is the Hanuman Temple across the street from our house. Joe and mommy are standing in front of it.

There are cows in the streets roaming around senseless, not knowing that there are cars around.

 

 

This is a goddess temple in the streets. These people are doing puja, which is worship in the morning.

This is the milk shop called Mother Dairy and milk man selling us milk for the day.

This is a building being built near the milk shop, and this is what the main frame looks like.

This is the canal in front of our house, and it smells very bad.

This is a small stand for Holi products. Holi is a ancient festival of the Hindus. It is a very big festival where people throw color on each other. This stand has powder, small pellet capsules of color, and plastic squirt guns to shoot color. Holi is tomorrow!

This is a shop owner wearing a colorful wig to celebrate Holi.

This is another cart selling tons of colored powder to throw at Holi.

This is Vaango, a South Indian restaurant in the mall near our house. 

 

 

 

For Holi, everyone gets a new pair of clothes for the holiday. This is Joe trying on a new Holi shirt.

This is Joe eating street food called Pani Puri.

The night before the color festival everyone does puja and there are big big bonfires lit to represent the story of Holi where a devotee named Prahlad was saved from the fire.

This is me with my new awesome Ben 10 airblaster gun to shoot colored water at people for Holi.

This is me playing with other children waiting for the bonfire to start

This is the bonfire the night before Holi. We all watched it for a long time and did puja around it.

This is me on Holi with my awesome airblaster Ben 10 gun. I have the gun because in Holi, we get to throw colors and shoot colored water at every one else, and they throw colors on you. Some have squirt guns and others have buckets of colored water that they dump on you. The worst weapon of all is the water balloon. On Holi, someone hit me in the neck with a water balloon really hard, but then I kept going and had a lot of fun. Here are some pictures from Holi.

This is mommy on the roof colored in color.

This is Santosh Cha-cha and his friends and Kulu at Holi.

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