Life as I know it....

I like my house......

2010-05-11T11:42:00.001+05:30

This is from when I made all of the cookies for the valentines day
cookie grams... It took 20 hours... Today I'm sick so I'm staying home
with my wonderfully sick mother and watching tv. I have a cold right
now which is no fun... >_< it's a little boring rightnow but hopefuly
it'll get better. We're going to be moving house soon, the new house
is a little smaller but I like it better. The house is really close to
our house right now it's just across the main road, which is nice
then I don't have to change busses. Arrggggghhh I want to BAKE!!!!!!
I'm thinking of turning this into a baking blog....to bake or not to
bake... I don't think I can... Is there something that's good for you
when you have a cold???

Cupcakes!!! ^^

2010-05-08T19:10:00.001+05:30

hmmmmmmmmmm... They look good don't they... I made these awhile ago bt they look good to me which brings me to the start of TOK classes. So in the IB program one of the required classes is TOK which stands for theory of knowledge the goal of the class is to make us question everything and stuff like that.. But my teacher summed it up pretty well, "the goal of TOK is to turn you into PITAs (pain in the a**)" So our first topic if discussion was our senses and their limitations, each group had to do a presentation, and ironically mine was taste. So I got to talk about how when you taste things your really using all of your senses; "that LOOKS good", "that SMELLS good" and so on. So the question is how much of it are you actually tasting?? And if you've ever been in a situation where someone is trying to feed you something when your blindfolded you would smell it first right and if you can't smell it you have a hard time getting yourself to eat it...
So how much of what you're tasting are you actually tasting?? I think I have confused people enough for one post...

-Maya

PS those cupcakes were really good

Sent from my iPod

My school

2010-05-04T19:11:00.000+05:30

This is a picture of my school in India CIS... I'm trying out this
whole mobile email send in thingy... Today was such a lonngggggg
day.... And the weather was funny 2 cause in was raining before lunch
but after lunch it went back to being reallllyyyy hot!!!! *=*
I have a presentation on a book we're reading in English 2mrw, some
book called like water for chocolate which is a book abt people in
Mexico, love and sex....
안녕~~~~~
- Maya

Hmmm its been awhile.....

2010-05-03T19:22:00.003+05:30

헐....심심해....
It seems to have been over a year since my last post....
letsssss see here...what have i done in the last year... joined IB (regreting it), learned a new language (korean), dyed my hair brown, and got top score in my math class though I'm not sure how that happen.... But all in all its been a good year. I'm almost done with my junior year, which is weird to think about. So I'm still in India and I'm gonna be graduating here at CIS (Canadian International School) in about a year. I've decided that I kinda like it here although I still like CA better =P
Well thats all for now... I'll try to post again if anything intreasting happens.....
-Maya ^3^

lol

2009-01-27T19:42:00.002+05:30

So schools still the same nothing new. But academically its a lot easier then IGCSE's so all I have to do is make sure that I don't start slacking off. But thats about it so sorry nothing very exciting sorry.

-I will check back later....

Bye.....

Long Time.....

2009-01-24T17:37:00.002+05:30

So..... it's been awhile since I last posted on my blog the last time I did was in October.

Well now its January and I'm no longer at Trio World School. I now go to another school in northern Bangalore called Canadian International School. I changed schools because my other school was too small, so I decided to change. I'm a lot happier at the new school and its a lot bigger which is better. I changed schools after christmas break. During christmas break I went back to California to visit it was great but it was really hard to say goodbye to my father and brother again.

Other then that everything is good. I will try to post more often and now it will be easier because my parents are increasing the time that Macminder allows me everyday.

So i will probably write again soon

BYE!!!!

Sick.....

2008-10-19T14:59:00.003+05:30

Hola! I'm bored and sick its 3 on Sunday and there is nothing to do so I thought it was time for an update.

One of my friends from school introduced me to korean music and its not that bad.

but these guys make me like it even more. The one in green is Minho and if mom lets me go to Korea next summer with my friend then I can meet him. Because my friends, friend, friend is his older brother. The one bottom right is the same age as I am. They are all members of the boy band SHINee (pronoced shiny) there are two other members but they are not in this picture. This is the link to their latest video: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=NeSF4Ef_xlA

This bands music is good but at first I thought the two people in the middle were girls, but they are twin BROTHERS. I just don't watch the music videos because the voice sounds like a boy but the face does not look like one up close. The band is called Tokio Hotel they are all germans who look like women.

Random >.<

2008-08-22T19:38:00.003+05:30

So I started school like two weeks ago (woooo...). I have all new teachers now the history teacher is really cool the others are okay. There's a new girl in grade eleven but she doesn't speak fluent english so my friend and I are helping her improve. I figured I should post something because I don't very often. For readers that are not part of my family (which I think is a very small number, don't know because they never comment) my sister is moving to India. On the first day of school it was weird because the chemistry knew who I was because she found my blog while looking for information on my school, it was weird..... Another thing that happened is that my ipod died (not the battery) which sucks, so for now I bought a 1GB memory card for my phone. I have the ska picture there because one of my friends drew on my arm and it was a kind of ska inspired thing..

Q's continued..

2008-07-08T10:14:00.004+05:30

Q: What are you going to do this summer?

A: Yes I'm out of school. We've been on two trips so far during the summer, one to Singapore and Malaysia, and one to a place called Hampi ( If you want to read more about those trips I'm sure my mother has given very in depth posts on her blog (snidknits.blogspot.com)). When Ari and Conner (my sis and bro) get here we will be going to a neighboring state, Kerala. Also when my grandmother arrives we will all be going to the Taj Mahal.

Q: What's your favorite thing about living in India?

A: I don't know there are a lot of cool things about being here. I guess since I have to give you on answer it would be just being able to go to more places that we couldn't go to while living in California, as well as meeting people from around the world.

Q: What's the worst thing?

A: Being away from my family (Dad, Conner, Ari, Isha, Hannah & Mat, Ygryane & Giselle,and everybody else (Maya, Will, Satchel, Ankie, Reed, Carson, Geoff)). Also not being able to see all my friends. And its harder to find clothes that I like over here!!!

Q: What's the weirdest thing you've seen/experienced there?

A: There haven't really been many weird things, sorry if I think of one I'll post about it

Q's

2008-07-07T11:30:00.002+05:30

Q: Have you made friends in school?

A: yah, I have a bunch of friends at my school both girls and boys. I had a boyfriend for a month (we go to the same school), but I broke up with him about a week ago now were just friends....

Q: How are the kids there different/the same as kids in the U.S?

A: Um the only really difference is that we come from different places and speak more then one language. I mean boys will be boys and girls will be girls. There aren't as many cliques at my school but at the larger schools there is more of that.

Umm my computer time is ticking away my last seconds I promise I will finish the rest of questions 2mrw!!!

Grades From Finals

2008-07-07T11:27:00.001+05:30

History: D

English Lit: C

Spanish: C

Math: C

Chemistry: C

Biology: C

the history teacher hates me.....

Comments...

2008-05-12T14:59:00.001+05:30

Hey can the people who read my blog please comment so I get some feed back, and if your part of my family you can talk to me you don't have to just talk through my parents...... <3

thxs
-Maya

Bad Joke

2008-05-12T12:45:00.000+05:30

I decided to lighten things up a bit... (get it haha)

Must study.......

2008-05-12T12:38:00.003+05:30

Finals are right around the corner and I am scared....... will post more soon (I heard that people are complaining about me not posting enough so GET OVER IT!!! or just comment me)
XOXO
-Gossip Girl

jkjk
-Maya/Anna (I have multiply personalitys, hence the two names)

Midterm Grades

2008-05-12T12:27:00.002+05:30

My extremely pitiful midterm grades are as follows:

Art: no exam (A)
History: C
Biology: E
Chemistry: D
Spanish: no exam (B)
Math: F
English Lit: C

Plz don't hate me.....

Finals

2008-04-17T12:57:00.002+05:30

I managed to survive midterms although I did not attain very good grades (list of grades will be published shortly). But in thirty days I have finals which are worse then midterms. But the good news that I am improving in my classes, on my last math test I ranked fourth in the over all grades where as the last test I was fourteenth out of fifteen. My goal for finals is to get all A's and B's then Mom might get me something nice.....

TTYL
-Anna

A Comedy of Errors + Midterm Hell

2008-03-28T19:18:00.005+05:30

Comedy of Errors

Last Tuesday we left on the plane for Goa, the flight was short and not very interesting (I used the time to finish reading a book called Stolen Voices). When we got to our room (which had been upgraded to a villa), I found this a very interesting lamp(at the moment the computer is having trouble uploading pictures but later this week i will post tons of pictures from the vacation). The hotel was very nice and i even learned some yoga, my mother hopefully also learned that she needs to remember to put on sunscreen because she came home with a rather bad sun burn all over her body (well it was her legs, shoulders, back, and face(I only got a small sunburn on my shoulders)). On Thursday we went to two different Hindu temples and shopping in the near by city of Panjim (don't know if I spelled that right). On Friday the hotel was offering a tour so we decided to go on it, however the tour went to every single place that we had been to on Thursday. Although the last stop was a ride on a boat down a river (they called it a curse but I don't think that's the right word for it), however about twenty minutes in it started raining pretty hard the good part was I got two priceless videos of Mom, and Bryan dancing on stage. On Saturday I think one phrase sums it all up: We went nowhere fast. We left the hotel around two O'clock because we were going to drive up to north Goa for a popular night market, halfway there it started raining but we thought that it would still be open, but when we arrived it was closed. Then the driver took us to another market which was also closed, after that we gave up on shopping and asked the driver to take us somewhere to eat and guess what the road to that restaurant was closed I think due to an accident. Finally at the end of the day we found somewhere that was open and ate (the place we ate at was REALLY good). The next day we came back to Bangalore, and dare I say it, it felt good to be home.

Midterms !!! XD (NOT)

Yesterday I started midterms, although I take seven classes I only have five midterms because two of my classes luckily don't have tests(art and Spanish). Yesterday I had three midterms (Math, History, and Chemistry) I think that History went well, but I don't think that Chemistry went very well but that's okay because I want to see where I'm at and what I need to study, Math I think could go either so I don't know. Luckily today I didn't have any tests so I didn't go to school XD. On Monday I have my last two tests which are English Literature and Biology, and on Tuesday I don't have to go to school either. Whenever I get all my tests back I'll post and you all how everything went, even the bad ones.

XOXO

-Anna

The BIRDS (or hawk I'm not sure)

2008-02-05T20:25:00.000+05:30

Well I have to say today was a bit weird. So I was walking with my friend Hina to where the bus picks us up and I notice a kind of hawk circling over head, and I'm like whatever doesn't matter. But seconds later it swoops up from behind and grabs the top of my head for a few seconds and flies away. My immediate reaction was WTF!!!! I'm still a little confused but maybe it didn't like blonds.

-Anna

P.S. I'm survived with no injury in case your wondering.

Questions?

2008-02-02T12:35:00.000+05:30

So after abondoning my email for a few days hoping it will go away. But alas it did not, so after making a cake I checked my email, (*ding ding) and I had a email from my Step-Grandma (a.k.a. Oma) asking all these questions so here I will answer them.

Is the team you joined an all girl soccer team? - No it's a boys team but since there weren't enough girls who wanted a soccer team I just joined the boys.
In what way is the school most different from yours here? - The school here is defenently more relaxed about the things that don't matter much, such as if everyones wearing the right common-dress atire. The academics here are much better and more focused then the ones at my old school.
Are there also Indian kids at the school? - There are Indian kids at the school but they are not the majority, every nationality is a minority.
Is there a cafeteria? - Yes.
Do they serve Indian food only? - No, everyday they serve Indian food but they also serve regular food that you would expect to see in a highschool careteria back in the states.
Are the teachers all native English speaking? - Just about all the highschool teachers are Indian but I don't think english was their first language. I don't know just because I've never asked.
Is there a swimming pool at school? - No.
Does the school organize trips? - Every year when it was Mastery International, they had a class trip but I don't know if it's happening this year.
How many kids average in your classes? - I'de say about 15.
Do any of them wear Indianclothes to school? - No, because it's common dress.
Do you always take the bus to school or does the driver take you sometimes, like while Bryan is in China? - I take the bus everyday.
Have you guys had any chance to make some small excursions to see more of India? - Not yet but I hope to!
The monkeys climbing around temples? - I haven't but my mom has.
What do you miss most? - My siblings.
Or is it fun to be an only child for a change? - It's fun but I do still miss them.

House, Soccer and Puke

2008-01-30T19:09:00.000+05:30

We've been in the house for almost a week now, and everyday people are here to install things or finish something. School is going good and I joined the soccer team to get PE credit. On Monday a Soccer tournament started, we won the first game, lost the second game and won the game today by default because the other team never showed up. Last night I got sick (and puked five times) so I couldn't go to school today but I'm feeling better today so hopefully I can go to school tomorrow, Because I need to retake a Biology test.

School....!

2008-01-17T20:42:00.000+05:30

So I've started school now and surprisingly it's not as boring as you expect school to be. The teachers are nice and the classes I'm taking are interesting and sometimes fun (*gasp). I'm taking biology, chemistry, physics, history, English literature, art and math (I'm falling asleep from too much learning). My favorite classes are art and believe it or not math. I have a lot of friends like my friend Sanaa. I also have guy friends (just friends) like Joel, Vishal and Won, all the people at the school are really nice. I managed to figure out where all my classes are and I found a free locker (with no help from the principle (who promised to help)).

Pictures!!!<3

2008-01-09T14:28:00.001+05:30

I finally have pictures to add now! I'm so happy, anyways going to rewind to when we were on the plane. On the plane suprisingly we managed to get some sleep through the wailing baby, I woke up however and even through my zombie like apperence I managed to capture this priceless moment on camara.

However I feel as if I should get back to the present. On Thrusday I'm due to start school at what was Mastery International School but is now Trio World School. They changed the name for a big reason, the ex-principal fled the country with all the schools money (don't you love drama). On Friday I have to leave school early and go sit through at least an hour on my parents filling out paper work it'll be so much fun!...... NOT. On other news we moved into a new apartment or flat as they call it here, and it's much better then the first one they put us in and on top of that the cats like it much, much more then the other place.

Bye for now!

-Anna

I'm Here!

2008-01-05T09:37:00.000+05:30

Wootness! I made it to India after a just about a day of sitting on a plane twelve hours of which were spent trying to ignore the wailing baby sitting close by, but I arrived safe and sound with my eardrums intacted. Unfortunately I can' t put any pictures on my posts yet because I don't have the right computer to upload them to, so my posts will be a little boring until our stuff comes in. But oh well, anyway the cats were scared out of their minds when I first got to them at the airport. When we arrived at the apartment Ashley and Benny found a place to hide very quickly, and it's in the couch yes IN the couch. Ashley came out and quickly and made herself comfortable under the covers of my bed, Benny however remained in the couch until last night when mom pryed him out and then locked him in my room with Ashley. We've gone to see houses and today we will be looking at an apartment. Guess what, we have someone who comes and makes us breakfast it sooo weird! Bye for now!

-Anna

Three Days!! eekkk!

2007-12-31T09:49:00.000+05:30

After about a week of frantic packing and trying to come up with a name that fits me (without sounding to cheesy) and the adventure that I'm about to embark on, I came up with this. Unless you're a part of my family (if so, bear with me here), you're probably wondering what adventure I'm about to go into. The crazy thing I'm about to do is move to India with my mom and step-dad, yay me!(fyi, I'm moving on the second of January)