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Recently, Shefali Aunty covered Shril and me as 'Child Bloggers' in City Bhaskar, Divya Bhaskar Newspaper.


Read about this here:
DIVYA BHASKAR DATED 14TH SEPTEMBER 2010
KIDSFREESOULS PRESS PAGE - READ FULL STORY
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- Tulsa

My memorable Journey experience

My wonderful experience and the one that I would like to share with a quote:

'Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards'

Life is like a dream. We meet different people while we take our journey. These connections make us wiser and teach us lot of things. We come across good and bad incidents. Frightening too. Five years ago, when I was in third Grade, my family decided to spend and enjoy our vacation at Mahableshwar. We set off our journey in the month of July. The train journey for me was very fascinating and I really enjoyed the scenic beauty. We stayed at Ram Sukh Resort at Mahableshwar for 7 days. It was a nice hotel which gave us a very comfortable stay. Our days were going full of bliss and happiness. Mahableshwar is so beautiful where people live peacefully. It's awesome! It is very well known for its natural beauty. There are many Strawberry gardens there.

At the last day of our return journey, our train was to land at 5.00 from Pune. We decided to reach Pune by taxi. Our Hotel Manager booked a taxi for us. He told us that the taxi will come at 12.00 but after waiting for half an hour, it did not turn up. Finally, the taxi came at 1.00. We comfortably seated in the taxi but all of a sudden, the taxi stopped as there was a pucture in the tyre. He changed it fast but half an hour passed and we got late. We reached Pune station at 4.30. The station was too crowded. My grandparents were also with us. They took time to walk. So, we sent the taxi driver with them. They took short cut. We had to take our platform tickets so we went another way. In this procedure, we forgot to take our train tickets from our grandparents. When we reached the platform, Dad remembered that the tickets were with my grandparents. It also happened that the taxi driver took my grandparents to the wrong platform. We reached the train but with no tickets. And grandparents were not traceable there and we had no idea where they could be. We felt so scared. We pulled the chain. The train driver called the officer of the Railway station. All of a sudden we saw some officers with the police. We felt very frightened. Officers came and enquired about our chain pulling. My Dad explained the whole story. But, they asked for tickets. They even did not try to understand our condition.

Meanwhile, two men came and helped my grandparents to reach the platform. They called my Dad and gave the message that my grandparents were alright and we need not worry about them. Soon, we saw them and felt comfortable. We met them and showed the tickets to the Officer. We were more than happy and thankful to the two god-sent human beings who helped us in the nick of time.

It is so inspiring that these two gentleman came to help my grandparents. They did not know us yet thought of a kind deed and spared their time to help my grandparents reach safely to us. We should always be helpful to people around us when they need our help.

- Tulsa

Kids scoop

Log to my new section of Kids Scoop - Interviews. In this column, I shall be presenting kid’s interviews regarding their favs. Devanshi presents her views on books, cartoons and what she’d like to be.

INTERVIEW by TULSA
Name - Devanshi
Age- 12 years
Std- 8th

ON BOOKS: Devanshi love to read books. She thinks, Books are our best friends and gives us knowledge. Devanshi likes to read novels and short stories.

ON COMPUTER: She believes computer is a useful machine and should be used for Knowledge. She thinks, Computers should not be used for 'time-pass' and playing games only.

ON KNOWLEDGE: Devanshi thinks that Knowledge is very important in everyone's life. We take knowledge from Internet, newspapers, books and teachers. Teachers are our mentors and shape our life with knowledge.

HER READING HANGOVER: Home

HER FAVORITE CHARACTER ON TV: Devanshi likes to watch Popeye. She likes the character who is very strong while eating spinach. It also gives message for global warming. She is fond of Popeye, the sailor man song.

HER BOOK COLLECTION: Devanshi has 50-100 books and love to read amazing novels, knowledge stories, historical books and others in her home library.

A concerned Question: Should school going girls go to Beauty Parlour and take up fancy things to school ?

Answer: No. Devanshi believes, there is no need to go to Beauty parlours as school is a place for study and not fashion. Taking fancy things to school is not good either as all cannot afford to bring costly fancy things.

I shall be presenting more Interviews of my friends and even if you want to be interviewed by me, do send me an email.

Btw, My fav cartoon character is Popeye and what is yours?



- Tulsa

My Amazing Experience

Today, I would like to share an amazing experience with you. We always have a misunderstanding or an illusion that 'We are the Best.' Nobody can be better than me and I thought, I am perfect.

However, an incident changed my opinion that there are many others who are clever than us and we should accept our drawbacks. I met a co-student at my Reading Library 'Swagat.' She seemed hyper minded, she didn't know how to speak properly and spoke like a child. But, last Saturday, she gave us a great surprize! My friends and I, were amazed to see her Project. All of us did a 'Cartoon Project' in the classroom and were given a worksheet to view and jot down our notings on the cartoon clip. She had done a very nice project and noted down her points in a very informative way. She had detailed the whole cartoon picture and what message it conveyed.

My attitude changed from that day. I am very fond of her now and see all her positive sides. I think, we should not under-estimate others. Each person is born with their own positives and negatives. Some children are fast learners and some are slow. We do not excel in everything and we should always be positive. I learnt a lesson from my friend - "Work hard, Be positive and be Open-minded."

- Tulsa

Happiness comes from giving

An E-mail Forward I received today. This is very inspiring story. Indeed, Happiness comes from Giving and we all should help others. In doing so, we can bring a smile on someone's face and be happy too.

- Tulsa

Happiness Comes from Giving

This story is about a beautiful, expensively dressed lady who complained to her psychiatrist that she felt that her whole life was empty, it had no meaning. So, the lady went to visit a counselor to seek out happiness. The counselor called over the old lady who cleaned the office floors.

The counselor then said to the rich lady "I'm going to ask Mary here to tell you how she found happiness. All I want you to do is listen to her."

So the old lady put down her broom and sat on a chair and told her story:

"Well, my husband died of malaria and three months later my only son was killed by a car.I had nobody... I had nothing left. I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat,I never smiled at anyone, I even thought of taking my own life.

Then one evening a little kitten followed me home from work. Somehow I felt sorry for that kitten. It was cold outside, so I decided to let the kitten in. I got it some milk, and the kitten licked the plate clean.

Then it purred and rubbed against my leg and for the first time in months,I smiled. Then I stopped to think, if helping a little kitten could make me smile,maybe doing something for people could make me happy.So the next day I baked some biscuits and took them to a neighbor who was sick in bed.

Every day I tried to do something nice for someone.It made me so happy to see them happy. Today, I don't know of anybody who sleeps and eats better than I do. I've found happiness, by giving it to others."

When she heard the rich lady cried. She had everything that money could buy, but she had lost the things which money cannot buy.

I Love Reading

My Amazing Experience:

It was in March 2010, my parents introduced me to my Library class. I was reluctant to join an extra class activity and that too - Reading! It was boring for me to read books. However, I had no alternate but to visit the Library on a routine saturday.

I came across many story books - short stories and fairy tales. It was easy to read and I got the confidence that I lacked. Apart from stories, I even read magazines and comic books. Slowly and gradually, my interest developed and I formed the habit of reading. My handwriting was no good and when I started writing book reviews of the stories I realized how to write better. Soon, I started writing cursive. Also, I have made many friends and we all love to do many Projects in the classroom. The recent Project was on Cartoons and we had a great time with the power point presentation. We enjoyed doing the scrap book and watching the Popeye movie.

I am inspired by the amazing strength of my teacher who spares her saturdays since years for children like me. She encourages and motivates for reading and other activities that we are not taught at school. She cultivates our reading habits and today, inspite of being in Gujarati medium, I can read, speak and write better English.

This experience of mine, will take me a long way in my life and now, I love to read. I have already completed reading Ladybird classics - Oliver Twist, Sinbad the sailor and The Prince and the Pauper. My reviews follow soon.

- Tulsa

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- Tulsa