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Friday, 21st  December 2012 The Confirmation I knew something was about to happen soon, the moment Baba came to pick us up from school. Even though they tried to be as secretive as they could, I   sometimes would be  rather nosy, and over-hear their conversations with other grown ups.One of these conversations was to one of mother's friends, Ma was saying to her: " Teesha won't need a visa, as Americans can spend up to three months in Europe-without one! " That was the biggest clue I needed to know what was going on, we were going to EUROPE! During our journey back to home, I asked dozens of questions, trying to act innocent. "Baba, why didn't Ma come to pick us up as usual? Where is she now? What is she doing at home? Why didn't Ma tell us before that you were coming?" As I had thought, he did not answer most of these.   When we finally reached home, our Mum greeted us, by huffing,"I've packed for me and Teerno, You and ...

Written a month before Christmas                                                                                                                                                                   ...

THIS IS A TRUE STORY........... One morning, I went on a walk with my father. The path seemed ever so familiar, almost as if... Bangalore? How could it be? We were in Bradford just yesterday, and I didn't seem to remember getting on a plane. Anyhow, I knew the first thing I wanted to do,  find my friends, my four best friends. After a few more steps, we reached chairs with a bizarre ( at first sight ) reason. By looking around, I inferred quite a lot. There was going to be a show. A dance performance, with four dancing girls. No prizes for guessing who they were! Siyani soon spotted me with her wandering eyes, but the others took a while. You tell by the look on her face and the huge (appearing) grin that she was eager to speak to me. When the dance was finally over, she ran up to me, followed by Aadhya, Vamika and Malvika. I pinched myself, like movie characters often do, to guarantee that I wasn't dreaming. It didn't hurt! I repeated this, but with ...

This morning, we woke up early, as we were planning a walk in at Specsavers,  again. We got out of bed at 8:00am and reached Specsavers at 9:10 am, but still, we couldn't get an appointment. It seems that one of the opticians was sick, so it was really busy and they wouldn't do walk ins for a couple of days. I wandered around the shop, looking for the glasses I would choose. I liked the blue ones, purple ones and especially the  pink ones. Meanwhile, Ma was trying to fit in an appointment for me. Eventually, the lady at the desk called a branch in the neighboring town and they gave me an appointment for 10 past 2 tomorrow. Later on, we walked to the shops to buy this week's groceries, Teerno's least favourite location. And then, obviously, we returned home. Well, not all of us, as Baba had gone to the saloon for his monthly haircut. When he returned home, we had lunch, watched T.V and I recently finished my home work. A few minutes later, I will watch a weeke...

Today, we went to  Kirkgate Centre to see some real reindeer.The booklets said that the event would start a 10 o' clock in the morning and last for 15 to 20 minutes. When we reached the destination at half past ten, my mother panicked. "We always reach late" she kept muttering. She examined the street, trying to find Santa's sleigh.A few minutes later she beckoned excitedly at my father, my brother, and me.We pushed through the crowd towards her, and there we saw them.There were six of them, all named. We gazed at them for ages, because they looked as though in a dream.But then we started to shiver, so we had to move on. Our next destination was Morrisons of which Teerno(my brother) didn't like the sound of. I was happy to hear it ,as  my feet were frozen. On our way, we stopped at Specsavers, hoping to get an appointment for my eye test , but no, it was all booked up. "You should be able to walk in if you come next Saturday before  9 a.m , but ...