Journey by Boat

                             A journey by boat in the river Hooghly is very pleasant. In some respects it is more pleasant than a train journey. So I had desire to make such a journey. I told some of my classmates about my plan. They also agreed to my proposal. Thus, one Sunday we resolved to go to the Botanical Gardens at Shibpur. We requested our English teacher to accompany us and be our guide. He consented very kindly. We all met at his house at noon. Then we started for the Chandpal Ghat near High Court. We reached the Ghat by tram.

                       It was the month of July. The river was full to the brim. We hired a boat. We were eight in number. We all knew how to swim. So there was no fear to go by boat. At half past one, we left the Chandpal Ghat. The current was in our favour, but the wind was against us. There were one helmsman and two oarsmen. They began to row the boat. Our boat began to go towards the south-west. When we were in the middle of the river, we saw many beautiful sights on both sides of the river. We saw many boats and steamers plying to and fro on the river. We saw many ships. They were lying at anchor. We saw the Howrah Bridge (Rabindra Setu) at some distance. A stream of people was seen moving along the bridge. We could see the rows of trees and the Fort on the eastern bank.

On the western bank we saw many mills. Ere long our boat reached the Shibpur Ghat. One of my friends thought that as we reached the Shibpur Ghat, the Botanical Gardens was not far off. But it is not so. I had an occasion to go to the Botanical Gardens once before. So I told him that it was far off from that place. The current was very strong. Our boat began to go very quickly. Soon we passed Shalimar. From here, the sight of Calcutta looked very beautiful. We could also see the beautiful buildings of the Head Office of the South-Eastern Railway at Garden Reach and many other sights. The sun was shining very brightly. So we were inside the cabin of the boat. But we could see everything through the windows. At about three the Botanical Gardens came in sight. We also saw the Engineering College at Shibpur. Within a short time we reached the Botanical Gardens.

On reaching there we were first of all to see the famous banyan tree. I have never seen such a big and old tree elsewhere. Then we saw many kinds of trees. We do not know the names of all of them. There are many beautiful groves in the Garden. Now and then we took rest there. It is a nice place for holding picnics. Many visitors come here for that purpose. When we finished seeing everything we went to visit the Engineering College. It is very close to the Gardens. We saw the college buildings, the workshop and the hostel Then we returned to the Gardens. We felt hungry and thirsty. We had sweets and drinking water with us. We made the best use of them.

            

A unforgettable time with my friends

                

                  Every day in our lives, we have to go through different events that we have to overcome through those. Some events are very good, but others give us many problems and never seem to leave.                   
                 I remember one day in my life in which I had many problems from which I did not know of any exits. It was about three years ago. I went to Comilla to my friends and spent a couple weeks with them. My friends lived in a big nice two-story house, and they had a big nice garden. Everything around their house was very nice. I really liked to spend my free time in that house with my friends. Many good days in my life related to this place and to these people, but there was also one very bad day in my life. Now, I want to describe just that day, which is an unforgettable day for me. It was about nine o’clock in the morning. Everyone was ready for breakfast except me. Suddenly, something happened. Everything started to move. It was a powerful earthquake. I felt like I forget to take breath. At this time all of us were screaming and shouting. We were searching of something to hold on.
                 Suddenly the electricity had gone and we heard the screaming was coming from the outside too. Everybody seemed like gone mad. Then Samantha's dad asked us in a hasky voice to drop down to take cover by getting under a sturdy table or other piece of furniture. He also warned us to stay away from glass, windows, outside doors and walls, and anything that could fall, such as lighting fixtures or furniture.
              Althogh it was a small earthquack it made us scared for a while. It lasted for almost 15/20 seconds. But I couldn't forget one second of that horrible moment. It's like a nightmare!

Friend

                     A friend is someone who is honest and you can trust. A friend is someone who you hang out with a lot, and some one you rely on. Friendship is being there for someone when they need you, and to have a common bond to have the freedom of hanging out with each other and to be comfortable around each other. In my opinion,  the main ideas of friendship are honesty and trust, caring and having similarities.
Without honesty and trust friendship wouldn’t last very long. The definition of honesty is “quality and condition of being honest, integrity”. Friendship would be held up by honesty. Trust is another important thing that relates to honesty, your friends really need to trust you. Honesty and trust are very important but so is caring.
                      You need to care for your friends so the relationship will last. The definition for caring is to be concerned or interested for others. An example of care is being there when someone really need you like during a bad situation. You should also be supportive of your friends. The definition of support is to take sides with or to provide help. Even though caring is important so are similarities and similarities in interest.
Similarities in friendship will make the bond grow. The definition of similarities is the quality or condition of being alike, resemblance. An example of similarities is two friends liking the same kind of music. Similarities in interests are things like a couple of
friends liking the same thing like music, hobbies and many other things. It would help by making them want to do more things together.

Good friend will always use honesty and trust, caring and support, and similarities in interest if they want their friendship to last. Good friends never want say goodbye!

Calling from Atlanta

                   Last night my friend Sima called me from Atlanta at 7:30. "Hey! What's up? How are you? " she asked me. "Preety good!", I said. Then she told me to take a pen and to take a  paper of a note book. Then she told me to write some math problem and asked me to solve this. I was so surprised, becuase as far I knew she is not going to school. So why does she need to solve math problem?
                  Then I asked her. She told me that it's for her cousin. So, I told her I'll try to solve those problems for her, then I'll type and send her massage on facebook with the solutions of the problems. After half hours she called me again, but I was still stuggeling with those problems. Because I didn't take Pre-ap Algebra yet. But I did  solve those kinds of problems in my country.
                    Anyway, I solved one problem by myself  and told her that I would send the solutions in the next day. So in the next day, during the 2nd period I ask Mohammed if he could solve the other two problems, because he's taking Pre-ap Calculas and he colud be familiar with those problems. Then I got lucky there! Mohammed shows me the steps to how to solve those problems and relearn again!!!
                   It was  Friday. I took the pass from Ms. Ramirez and came to Mr. Blackwood's class and I sent a massage to her in the facebook containig the solutions of the those problems!!

My Latin Test

                         Last Tuesday, on March 3rd, during the second period,I had to join to the national latin exam. It is the worst exam I had ever attened. It had 40 questions, but I knew only 5/6 answers, I had to guess the answers for the rest of the questions.
                         That exam contained about four questions about myth, 2 questions about Greek culture, about four/ five questions related to latin grammer, three quiestions about Roman History. There was also questions about geoghaphy. I only knew two answers which were about  greek culture, and geography. It was all of my fault, because I was never serious about my latin class. Our teacher Mr. Marshal is really very nice and he tried very hard to make us well prepared for the test.
                      Anyway, The test also had a latin story and we had to translate this story and answered some about 10 questions related to it. But I was still so happy! Because I had gym for the second period and I hated to be there. Wasn't it awesome? I could skip my gym class because of that test!
                      However, I'm feeling a little worry because I could have done better than that if payed attention in the class. In that class I always chated with Masfika, made noise with my cousin Shufi, used to sleep when Mr. Marshal taught us.
                 As I knew that all is my fault for doing bad in that test, I told myself to not to worry much, because this test is nor for grade and I said, " Keep going Hazera! Better luck next time".

                             
                      
                     
                        

Suicide

                Last Tuesday was one of the miserable and funny days for me. I have a friend, Sima, lives in Atlanta. She called me after a long while in Sunday and she informed me that one of our classmate, Mithu wanted to kill himself and don't want to live for one more day in this world. He lost all the hope and faith to survive and started to hate himself.
                 As he was my classmate, I felt very sad for him. On Monday, after school, when I returned home, I collected his cell number from Sima and tried to call him to not to do that thing that he wanted to do. I called him again and again. But he didn't receive my call. I felt very frustrated. Then I called Sima again and told her to let me know if she knows the latest happening. I was very anxious, worried for him. I was really eager to know why he wanted to commit to suicide and what was going on his life?
                  However, that night I didn't sleep well. I prayed to God to change his decision. I couldn't control myself. I cried, cried and cried. When I was young like 8/9 years old, he was my neighbor, everything that I did with him like playing, fighting, gossiping all came to my mind. And I cried over and over again. I checked my e-mail again and again to see if Sima sends me any new mail.
                 Anyway, on Tuesday in the morning I called her & she told she doesn't know what happend to Mithu. I came to school but I couldn't concentrate my mind. When I came back to home, Sima called me.  "Hazera, are you really tensioned about Mithu till yet?", she asked me. Then she told me everything what actually happened and I couldn't stop smiling.
                Mithu's mom was a characterless woman. She has an unwanted relationship with his own cousin, as his father lives in Saudi Arabia. That was really embarrassing and very bad for our culture and he also liked a girl, but that girl doesn't like him. So, he decided to take some sleeping tablets which were so powerful. But in the next morning he woke at 10 o'clock and he was very surprised. So that he called his friend, from whom he collected those tablets. He said," I knew that you would do some crazy stuff, that's why I gave you those tablets, which were for headache! But they are really powerful, you have to go to the doctor to wash your stomach to avoid the reaction of those tablets!"





         

My Cousin Shufi's girlfriend

                 Yesterday, in  my Latin class, a funny thing happened to my cousin shufi. It was so funny that I can't forget ever. Masfika , Shufi and I have this class together. So after finishing Mr. Blackwoods class I went for the Latin class. As we were going, a girl, Britney was coming towrd to shufi. But Shufie was pretty afraid about her. He ran to upstaires, so that Britney woudn't see shufi.
                  After a few minutes we all went to classs. Britney was hiding behind the door, she asked me to see whether Shufi is coming or not. After a few minutes I saw Shufi is coming! I told her to be ready. So, when Shufi reached to the door of our class, he was looking to the place, where's Britney usually sit. However, a Shufi entered the class Britney pull him to her and tried to hug him. But poor Shufi was screaming at us! The whole class was loughing. Then he shouted to Britney, " what do you want from me"?
"Your love honey", Britney said. " I have my wife and a baby also. Go away from me", Shufi requested her. Then Britney said, " I'll kill them, don't worry. Just love me!" It seemed the whole was enjoying their love story. We all clap for them, we wistled too!! then Britney went back to har sit.
                   Actually Britney doesn't like Shufi. As Shufi is very noughty and he told everybody that he is married to girl who is attending to Austin High. But it was not true at all. So, I and Masfika told Britney to give Shufi a headache. That's why she was trying to irritate him and played with him.
              Anyway, We really had a nice time to Britney's acting and Shufi's crying! It was pretty interesting!

                                 
               

Dracula

               "This book is really awesome,Hazera. Love it", my sister praised. One of my friend Mitu gave me the bangle version of Dracula. It was so cool story. Then I told my sister about that book. My sister just frowned at me. Then she told me, "C'mon Hazera, you know very well that I don't like that kind of scary books , "It's scary, but pretty cool. I promise , you'll love this story", I said.
               Actually my sister doesn't like scary stories or movies. Because when she trying to sleep, she can't. She sees  all the frenetic, dangerous, wild creatures are coming to sleep with her, they  are loughing at her,  triyng to pull her hair. Even though she got sleep, she woke up at midnight, shouted and screamed like all those nightmare creatures are trying to bite her. And she makes us fell afraid too.
               Anyway, when I suggested  her to read Drucula, she refused. But my borther and I were so pleasent as we read a really wonderful book. Our over and over praising made my sister pretty curious about the book, Dracula. Then after a few days, she asked me to bring this book. As she read Dracula, she was getting pretty exiting. She asked me, "O Hazera, What happend to Luna at last? Did she got married to Arthur? Does Dracula turned Luna into a vampire?". "Oh, well, finish reading this book and you'll get your answers!" I said.

           The funny thing is after finishing reading Dracula, my sister was very pleasent. " It is really awsome. It's scary but it fulfill my heart", she said. But at night, I was sleeping, suddenly I heared a small sound. It seems somebody is criyng. I opened my eyes. Oh, God! it was my sister. She was calling me, because she really need to use the restroom, but she feels scared! " Please wait infront of the door, untill I return", my sister requested me!

Breaking Cultural Rules

            "I'll go to Bangladesh in coming July", my sister said, who is 20 years old now. "What the heck are you saying Moriom? Why do you need to go there"? my mom asked. Then my sister replied that she loves a boy, Arshad khan and she wanted to marry that boy. My mom looked like she just drank a bottle of bitter squash juice.
           Actually a few months ago, my younger sister & I started to discover that Moriom has a relationship with someone, because she take the only home phone in our house into her room and talk with someone when our parents are not at home! We were very suspicious about her. But we didn't tell anything to our parents. We didn't want to give them too much thinking to increase their headache.
           Anyway, in order to our culture, our parents always seek & select our spouse. We have to marry their selected person, whether we like it or not. It is one of the way to show respect to our parents. However, you can find  barely some kids who didn't obey their parents. It seems my sister Moriom is one of them!
           Now, my mom is pertty disappointed about her. No one have the courage in our house to tell this to my dad. He can do anything, when he is angry. We all are so afraid of him, he remains angry most of the time of a day. I think he'll be so disappointed too. Only God knows what is going to happen in next july!!

                                       

Christmas Vacation

               I got about four weeks of vacation for the Christmas Eve. It wasn't so bad. I got a lot of leisure time to play, to read storybooks. I was very happy during this vacation; because I didn't have to get up very early in the morning, get ready for school. Another thing I was very glad about was I didn't have any homework to do!
              First few days I was sleeping a lot. I woke up about 9/10 o'clock. I really enjoyed those days. I played "City Ville" in face book all day long. It made me very happy to be at home during lunch . My mom always made some delicious Indian food every day for the lunch. But gradually I thought myself that I may need to do a little job to provide myself, so that I don't have to irritate my brother or sister for money for buying my personal stuff.
           So took my younger brother with me as my company and got out from home to find out a job. We went to north Lamar and I brought application from different shops. I also applied in online. But I didn't find a job yet!
            Anyway, as my family & I are Muslim, we don't celebrate christmas. But my mom is really a very interesting woman. She gave us money to shop for Christmas! We four brother and sister went to Kohl's, Ross, Old Navy and Wal-mart for shopping, three days before Christmas. It was really interesting. We had our lunch at McDonald's. We also bought Christmas cards for our friends and some gifts for our relatives.
             As Christmas went, I got bored to be at home.  I was pretty eager to come back to school. I wanted to meet with my friends, My teachers. In that time I really understood that how much I love my school!

I Dreamed My Grandma Last Night

         Last night I dreamed my grand ma! I saw it was Eidday. We all were so busy to decorate our house nicely. My mom was making Semai, Noodles, Vuna-Khichuri, Halim, Custerd and other types of delicious foods for the guests and also for us. While my sister and I finised decorating our house, my mom asked us to help her. My father and my three brothers ate their deserts and went to the mosque for praying Eid namaz. Meanwhile, My mom finished her cooking and asked us to take our shower. We three sisters took our showers one after one. Then we dressed very well and we put some make-up on our faces and made ourselves looking very pretty! When my father and my brothers came back from the mosque, my mom decorated the table with foods and we all set together to take our breakfast.
        Suddenly someone knocked the front door. My younger brother opened the door for the stranger. It was my grandma with her pretty smiling face. We jumped from the table to hug her. We saw that she also broght some gifts for us which were into her hands. We requested her to sit to take the breakfast with us. We were telling her that how much happy we were to see her on this very day!
         At this time, I woke up from sleeping. Then I told my mom what I dreamed. She told me, "I know, you  like your grandma so much. May be you thought about her before sleeping. That's why you dreamed about her."
          But I was still very happy to see her, even though it was my dream. I love you grand ma!

My First Thanksgiving Day

                On 11/25/10 I celebrate My first Thanksgiving day. I was so happy because we got five days vaccation for the Thanksgiving day. I got a lot of leisure time to play, to sleep.I had pretty fun during this break. Anyway, it was so good to taste different type of food that didn't taste ever. These foods are different from our Indian food. Most likely, Indian foods are spicy. I always like to eat spicy food! So that, first time I thought that Thanksgiving foods would be boaring without no spice on it! But I was completely wrong! These foods were great! I taste turkey, mass potato, makarony with chesse and other foods( I don't know their name) for the first time. Among all of these, I like the Turkey most!
              My younger uncle, Kibria Bhuiyan is the manager of Luby's. He brought these delicious food from there, the night before Thanksgiving day. He invited us at his house for the lunch.
                 All our relatives and cousins and all of my family members went there during lunch time. We all gossiped, joked at each other as we have seen us together  after a long time. We all eat together and had a lot of fun! We really had a great lunch with these unknown thanksgiving food!

My Weekend

                   My weekends are always the same. Watching televisions, doing homework, helping my mom, cleaning my bedroom, playing cards with my yonger brother and sister or reading story books. At first time , I liked the way what I have to do all over the weekend. Because when I was in Bangladesh, I didn't have that much time to play or opprtunity to read story books. If I want to read the story book I have to hide the book very cleverly. Because if my dad realized that  I was raeding sroty book, he would scolded me or bite me with a stick. It doesn't mean my father is cruel! All the parents thought that reading story book is wasting time, we can memorize our text book instead of reading story book, so that we can do  very  well in the examination!

                However,gradually it gets boar to me. Always doing the same thing seemed very monotonius to me. I started to thingking what can I do to get rid of these monotony works. Then a few days ago, my cousin named Nazmul suggested me that I can goo to the www. freerice.com and play a game which can help me to learn new  english vocabulary words or it can help me with my science subjects. He told me it's fun game to play. He also suggested me that I can sing up in Face book by thye internet. Theose were a great idea to spend my leisure time. Now, I learned new things from freerice.com and I like to chat with my in facebook! Now sometimes I chat with other people that I don't know. But the only problem is there are many false account in facebook, which can irritate you if you're not careful. But I also think it's a g way to know other people.

      

   

A Memorable Eid than Ever

            Mily is the youngestchild of her parents. She always wish to get what she wants at any cost. As the Ramadan goes, eid is knocking at the door. Every body is pretty exiting about eid shopping. One of her friend already bought her dresses for eid and some of her friends were started to plan how would they celebrate  their eid.
              " Dad, wher we'er going to shopping mall? Eid is coming"! Dad just moved his head a little. then mom said, "Honey, don't worry. We'll go next weekend." But Mily wasn't happy, she gasped. "I want a really beautiful dress, which would be the finest dress among all of my friends." Her parents know Mily's type. they just looked at each other.
              Two days later, they went to the shopping mall. Mily took a long period of time to chose her dress. " Honey, I know you liked it, but it's pertty expensive. You should know our condition. I already made the budget for this month. You have to chose another one. I'm extremely sorry." Mily looked so much disappointed. Her large eyes filled with water. After a while her mom said to her dad, " we shouldn't dissappoint her. This eid comes once a year. We'll redo our budget." Mily's dad wasn't very happy but he bought that dress for mily to make her feel good. Within five minutes, they stepped down into the 1st floor. Mily suddenly saw another dress which is pretty than her dress. then she told her parents to buy that dress too. her father stared at her. " We can't provide two expensive dresses for you!"   
              But it's mily! she didn't want to hear anything else. She cried the whole way. When they got home they saw somebody was sleeping  in the empty space which is infront of their house. Her father shouted to the strangers. There was an old woman and her two grand child. They were shiking and looked so scared.
Her mom asked them why they came here. The old woman answered them that they came from village in searching of livelihood. " Their parents are died", the old lady pointed to those two little girls.
             Mily felt very sorry for them. She thought herself, " how do they live without their parents? They don't even have foods, clothes!"
             Suddenly she realized that God give us a great gift when we born and it's our parents! They are like permanent shelter over us! She also realized that there are lot of people in the world who doesn't have food to eat, no home to live.
             She felt very regreat that she did one-two hours ago. She went to her mom and shouted," Mom! Dad! I don't need two dresses for Eid. I'll  share my other dresse with these two little girls. Eid is for every body to celebrate."

            

A Memorable Event

       This story is about my favorite teacher, Mr. Shaha. During that time, I was in Bangladesh and read in 8th grade.
       Mr. Shaha was a math teacher. He was very nice with us but we always feared about him. He had a husky voice and we usually didn't make noise in his class. One day, when he entered our class, he looked very upset. We didn't have that much courage to ask him what happened. After a while, when he finished checking our homework, some of my friends and I decided to ask him that why he was upset. Then we asked him very quietly with a little fear.
    But he was silent first time. We noticed that he looked like crying. After a moment of silent, he told us that it was the same day that when his father died in during he was fought against the Pakistani armies to gain our independence in 1971. He told us the whole story how his  father died. It was a terrible story but it was also about a brave fighter. " I proud of father, who sacrificed his  precious life to give an independent country to the new generation", said Mr Shaha.
   There are there millions of people sacrificed their lives in our independence war against Pakistan. We bowed our head with deep respect. We also feel proud for our brave freedom fighters who gave us a beautiful and an independent country in exchange of their lives.
      We congratulate Mr. Shara, as a son of a brave person and told him that, "It's a matter of proud, not to worry."

   

The effect that someone I admire can have on my life

         Someone that I can admire in my life is my grandma. She was the wisest woman I had ever seen in my life. She had a little education, but she was a very smart woman. She gave me lot of valuable advice, which are always helping me in almost every step in my life.
       Here, I can tell a story about my grandma. In 2006, we suffered so much by the seasonal flood. There was water everywhere in my house and it caused a great damage. When water started to enter our house, we didn't have any idea what should we do in that situation. As water was rising gradually, we were too much shocked to think. Then my grandma advised us to put some brick under all the big tables and also under our beds. When we did so, she said us to place all the small furniture over the tables.
      As we placed the bricks under our bed, it got upward.  That's why we don't have to think our sleeping at night. My mom brought some dry food from the shop, so we didn't have to worry about food too. It was really wonderful to have such an wise woman with us at time of the extreme danger.
      She was also a good company. I always liked to chat with her. She had a lot of great experiences. I think I learned a lot of things from her. She taught me how to make embroidered quilt and many wonderful stitches also. She always had a great sympathy for me when I felt bad. She was a great inspiration for me.
      December 27,2009 was the worst day in my life. I lost my loving grandma in that day. I miss her very much all the time.

     I think, I lost her forever, but she left a great affectionate touch in my mind. I'll never forget her.

A time that I Feel Proud of Myself

                    It was Tuesday, a busy school day as well. All the students were standing in front of the national flag in our daily assembly. Suddenly Shahed and Mithu came to the schoolyard and they were panting and they looked like crying. Then we heard such a unexpected news that one of our classmate, Romana was in a road accident. I felt like a big thunder fall down over my head. Romana was my very close friend.
                  After hearing that shocked news, our Headmaster dismissed our classes after 2nd period. Some of our teachers went to the accident place with those two boys. After one & half hour, Mr. Kader came back and told us that Romana and her cousin were coming to the school with a Rickshaw (one kind of vehicle). A big truck was coming with full speed from the opposite side. As it was running speedily, it didn't obey the traffic signal. That truck pushed their Rickshaw and they fall down. Then the truck went over them and it vanished quickly.
                  It is a big sorrow to say that her cousin were spot dead. Another rickshaw puller who watched that accident said to Mr. Kader, " Whole road wept with their blood. One girl was screaming loudly and another one turned into flesh with in a eye splash".
               Romana was seriously injured and the doctors were anxious about her that she might lose her one leg. They said that she need extra care to recover the injury. In Bangladesh we don't have any health insurance. Unfortunately, her father was very poor. It 's pretty difficult to manage her all medical bill for him.
               But at this point our headmaster made a wonderful decision. " Romana is not only your daughter, but also our's. Have courage; we're beside with you. We'll try to help our best."
              In our school office our teachers opened a charity box for her. Many parents came to our school everyday to help that poor father. We also felt responsibility for our friend. We started to save money for her. Every day we went our school office and put our savings in that box. We also arranged a parents and students conference to collect money for her.
               After a month when she came back to us I felt very proud of myself. We were abled to save her precious life. It's the meaning of  'human' to me who should always help each other.

              
             

The Strangest thing I Have Ever Seen

              When I was little, I was so noisy. I always liked to play with my younger brother's toys and always warned him not to tell  our parents. I always made a mess and horrified our family members.
One day my aunt came to our home with her newborn daughter. We all welcomed her warmley and  as thi was the first time she had come to our house after a long time. In the afternoon, my mom warned me not to make noise or sound, because the baby was sleeping. After a while I heard the baby crying. I went in the drawing room and I told my mom. My mom went  in that bedroom with me, where the baby was sleeping. But a strange thing happened, and I was not ready for it.It made me really very surprised, because there was no sound and the baby was sleeping quitely. My mom looked like I betrayed  her. Then she warned me again.
           After a few minutes I heard the baby crying again! As I was forbidden to go to that room alone, I went very close to the door. I was sure that the baby was crying. I decided to tell my mom. But I failed to tell her, because last time I seemed a liar!
        When I told my mom again that the baby was crying, my mom frowned at me.  I swore to her that I really heard  the baby was crying. We went to that bed room. Unexpectedly, there was no sound!!
         I was really very surprised. How was that possible? I felt like I was irritating her. My mom fretted at me. She asked me why was I lying. But I knew I was telling the truth. I was thinking,"why this strang thing happening to me? Why does the crying stop when my mom comes with me?"
        Then I told her to go inside the room. Suddenly we heard a crying sound. But the baby seemed like it was sleeping deeply. It was very strange we both were looking at each other. Then my mom told me search the whole room. We searched everywhere,but there was nothing. Suddenly we heard that sound again! Then I looked under the cot, because it seemed that the sound was coming under it.
      I was wondered, because  there was nothing but a kitten. When a kitten cries it sounds like a baby's crying. My mom and I both were laughing when we discovered the source of the crying!
      That the strangest but funny thing happened in my life.

  

My First Day at My First School in the USA

            After many ups and downs my family and I got our visas on the 16th of July, 2009. After about three months, my father bought tickets for the airplane for us. We arrived in the USA on November 1st, 2009.
            A few days later, my uncle told me that I had to go to school with my cousin, Shufi. He attended Eastside Memorial High School. That made me so uneasy, and I was so afraid about how the new school would be? What type of classes would I have to take? Would they be easy for me? Are the teachers nice with the students?  Am I going to have any friends in my new school?  All these thoughts made me kind of crazy.

          Anyway, on November 13th, I went to that school with my cousin. When we arrived at the school, I was looking at the people and I was trying to find somebody who would be the same ethnicity as me. But I didn't find anybody who looked like a Bengali. Everything was different from Bangladesh. However, Shufi introduced me to the principal and to all of the teachers. I was little bit nervous, but they welcomed me to their school and they were so nice. Some students came and said 'hello' to me. All these things made me very comfortable. I went to his classes as a visitor and I enjoyed them. The teachers were so nice and they were very friendly. I had a good day on my first day at Eastside Memorial High School.

     

The Recent Book I have Read

          A few weeks ago I asked Jannat, my younger sister to check out Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows from the library. As I had already seen the first six Harry Potter movies, I was wondering what might happen to Harry and his friends at the end . I started to think about the rest of the story. I thought that Harry would defeat Voldemort or he would die as they both were great wizards. I hadn't seen the seventh part  named Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. I went to the library for the DVD of this movie. But the librarian said that they didn't have it. That's why I asked my younger sister to check out that book for me.
When I first saw that book I was surprised and thought to myself, "Oh my goodness!! It's a very big and thick book! How long will it take me to finish this book?" But I was wrong. It was an amazing book and I was excited with every  of it. It made me very curious to move quickly from one part to another part as I read thoroughly.
        Then, I began to understand gradually the reason that Professor Snape killed Dumbledore, the Headmaster of Howgwarts; how Dumbledore was a person in his real life. The great story of  "Three Brothers & Deathly Hallows" tells how Tom Riddle who was an excellent student  became Voldemort, as well as the magnificent sacrifice of Harry's mother. That was the main reason that Voldemort couldn't kill Harry that night when his parents died for him.
        I had great sympathy for Ron's family, because they lost George, Ron's brother. Ron lost two fingers, and Fred lost one ear. But I had great satisfaction about the defenses of Harry against Voldemort and it was a very good description of how Harry defeated Voldemort. I felt like I could see all the happenings in front of my eyes. The ending of the story also was very good and gave me the pleasure of having read a  very good book.