Diary of a Whacky Girl

I wanted Athi appreciate the habit of reading and hence, introduced him to the world of books ever since he was 7-8 months old. We began with board books, moved on to flappy, push-pull-slide, and currently are at normal paper books for 2 year olds. I have been reading him this book called "Let's Go" for almost 2 months now. We read this every night right before sleep. He has been obsessed by it, but never opens his mouth to read or volunteers to say the next word when I pause. Worst case, he deliberately says the wrong sentence/word. There have been times when I wanted to stop reading because of such behaviour, but nevertheless we continued, both because of his persistence and my main motive to make him enjoy reading.  A couple of days back, he did something that stunned me completely. He took out the book, read out it entirely on his own to his Paati, and made her recite each line after him. That kannula thanni vechunda moment - all those bedtime reading did eventua...

Day 3 of our North-East Trip. To read the previous entry please click here .  Our jeep safari into the Kaziranga National Park was scheduled at 7AM. We woke up had some tea and waited for the jeep to arrive. The jeeps are big enough to accommodate 5 people easily, but since nobody else in our stay opted for a early safari that day, it was just the 3 of us. The national park as such is humungous, and is split into different ranges such as Central, Eastern and Western. Our first safari was into the Central Range, which has the biggest jeep trail of the park. There are 2 types of safaris in this range - Jeep and Elephant Safari. The elephant safari lasts for an hour and is limited in distance. However, it takes you quite close to the animals. The Jeep safari covers a fair bit of distance, approximately 20 km, and lasts for 2-3 hours.  The Kaziranga is most famous for one-horned Rhino. Other inhabitants include, Elephants, Wild Buffalos, Deer, and a whole host of birds such as Sto...