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Monday, January 4, 2010
Kalani

Merry Christmas All and a Happy New Year !

Photo: Gingerbread house


Sorry this is a little late but I have been busy on my adventures around India. I am writing from India in a city called Kolkata. My Mum, Dad and I are spending summer holidays in India.


On Christmas morning it was very different to usual Christmases.


At the hotel we are staying at there is a big gingerbread house and I got lots of Indian toys like a toy car called the Ambassador which is common in India.







Photo: Car and comic bookIndia is a crazy country--I like it a lot. Everywhere you look there is a scene--something interesting to see. We went to a very famous place called the Taj Mahal-it was coooool.

Photo: Taj Mahal
I tried to get one of those photos that looks like you are picking up the Taj but instead I ended up picking up this guy...

Photo: Man surrounded by large fingersOn the streets in India there are lots of animals specially cows, but dogs, goats, and chickens as well and sometimes camels - like the one I saw go past my window when I was eating breakfast the other day. That also means there is lots of cow dung so you have to watch where you walk, although they tell me that stepping in it is lucky. I am not so sure about that.

Photo: Spiderman on a bench

Also in Kolkata there is a massive Spiderman on a building and a man-size one on a bench.


Freddie is also in India - somewhere not sure where but I have hired private investigator (named George) to track him down. I think he is on a train.

I hope you all have had a great Christmas...a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!






8 Comments

LUCKEY Going to India has been my DREAM!!!!!!!!!!

I have learned a lot about India in school. Someday I would like to visit India. :~)

Sorry but whos freddie again ????????? chelly

I am from India!

Hey! I live in India too! And I'm from Kolkata. Can you tell me in which places you went in India?

COOL

That sounds fun someday I will love to visit India,it is a beautifu place and nice pictures up there it must be an exciting place to visit and learn about there culture.

I just came back from Fiji and I was enrolled in an international school and it was a great experience to be there there, was kids from different countries
I had a few friends that was from India.

That is nice that you had fun in India.

India is pretty amazing and i am from there !
The Taj Mahal is Beautiful!
You are very lucky.
I haven't even gone there yet!

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