Over the past month School has been great! It's not like US school's, it is really very much different. First of all it is a little longer than my old school, but I don't really mind it. The bus ride is a long one - almost one hour from our temporary house. The drive is rather scenic so time flies by and now we have a group of us back benchers who can get naughty!!!
Once we arrive at the school at 8.00 am, we go to our class for prayers. After prayers all the kids go for Kriya. In Kriya there are three parts: 1. Bastrika, 2. Sudarshan Kriya and 3. Ending Mantra.
In Bastrika you have to sit in Vajrasan and perform breathing through your nose and stick you hand up in the air with open palms. This is one count, we do 15 counts per round and three rounds total. In Sudarshan Kriya, we take two breaths thru' our nose and then say very softly, " Ha Ha". Then we say Ho Ho, so we alternate breathing between the " Ha's and Ho's". We end this by a mantra and head out for assembly.
In assembly each class takes turn to say daily news, thought of the day and upcoming events. After assembly we go down to our class for a delicious hot breakfast...of course I enjoy that thoroughly :-)
The classes start at 9.00 and we follow the time table set in the beginning of school year. Every day we have different classes. In US we follow the same schedule everyday, here it varies. We are also doing special classes. Every week we have three Taekwondo lessons and for my elective, I am learning Harmonium. It is sorta similar to Piano and since I have learnt piano for 3 years, I am finding it easy to grasp.
Sanskrit! Yes I am learning it and its pretty easy actually. Infact I told Aai that I would rather do Sanskrit than German when I go to 9th grade :-)
Shastravahini - This is a special program our school is running and it focuses on different engineering disciplines and modeling. Never thought I could do hands on engineering and find it so interesting!
Overall, I am really learning many different things at school, music, academics and martial arts. I look forward to it each day and I really LIKE ALL THE KIDS. They are so warm and friendly and even if there are fights, I feel there is more understanding amongst kids. I like the value education class they teach us to make right choices, even though they are not always easy :-)) Ask your parents about moving back and join SSRVM, you'll will love it just as I do.
I don't much like the amount of Homework and School on 1st and 3rd Saturdays, but I can live!
Do keep reading and let me know what you want to hear more about..
-Sid!
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In Bastrika you have to sit in Vajrasan and perform breathing through your nose and stick you hand up in the air with open palms. This is one count, we do 15 counts per round and three rounds total. In Sudarshan Kriya, we take two breaths thru' our nose and then say very softly, " Ha Ha". Then we say Ho Ho, so we alternate breathing between the " Ha's and Ho's". We end this by a mantra and head out for assembly.
In assembly each class takes turn to say daily news, thought of the day and upcoming events. After assembly we go down to our class for a delicious hot breakfast...of course I enjoy that thoroughly :-)
The classes start at 9.00 and we follow the time table set in the beginning of school year. Every day we have different classes. In US we follow the same schedule everyday, here it varies. We are also doing special classes. Every week we have three Taekwondo lessons and for my elective, I am learning Harmonium. It is sorta similar to Piano and since I have learnt piano for 3 years, I am finding it easy to grasp.
Sanskrit! Yes I am learning it and its pretty easy actually. Infact I told Aai that I would rather do Sanskrit than German when I go to 9th grade :-)
Shastravahini - This is a special program our school is running and it focuses on different engineering disciplines and modeling. Never thought I could do hands on engineering and find it so interesting!
Overall, I am really learning many different things at school, music, academics and martial arts. I look forward to it each day and I really LIKE ALL THE KIDS. They are so warm and friendly and even if there are fights, I feel there is more understanding amongst kids. I like the value education class they teach us to make right choices, even though they are not always easy :-)) Ask your parents about moving back and join SSRVM, you'll will love it just as I do.
I don't much like the amount of Homework and School on 1st and 3rd Saturdays, but I can live!
Do keep reading and let me know what you want to hear more about..
-Sid!
3 comments:
Good Job Sid, I am very proud of you for accepting this Change....you rock my dear!
Very well written ! Love reading it :-))
Siddharth, you were the one who resisted the move back to Pune and am so happy to see that everything has worked out well for you. I hope you will learn from this and realize whom you should trust for good advise.
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