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High School Cross Country

Posted in Cross Country, School on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Nikhil has started cross country season and is running for his high school team.  Here are some pictures from his first two meets. Nikhil got his groove back in the second race, improving by 1 1/2 minutes to an 18:52 in the 3 mile race.There were 400 Freshman kids in this race from as far [...]

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Back to School

Posted in School on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The kids are back in school – here are a couple of pics of the boys on their first day of High School!

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UCLA 10 year MBA Reunion

Posted in Friends, School on August 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Last weekend I had my UCLA MBA reunion with my fellow study group.  Several of them flew in from all corners of the world. On Saturday, we went on a cruise to Catalina aboard the USS Lane Victory.  This is an old WWII era cargo ship that has been restored and sails just three times [...]

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Graduation.. or is it Promotion?

Posted in School on June 22, 2011 | 4 Comments »

The boys were officially promoted from 8th grade to High School last week.  First are some pics from their promotion party and the actual graduation event at school. Here are the boys accepting their Honor Roll awards during the rehearsal ceremony.And finally, the actual ceremony. How about a congratulations to the parents  Is that Anjali [...]

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MVP Awards

Posted in Cross Country, School on June 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

On Tuesday, Nikhil received an award from the the Elks Club and his school for Cross Country Season.  Awards were presented to the MVP’s from each school in Orange County for a variety of sports.  Here he is going up to receive his award. Here are the boys from each school in OC for Cross [...]

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Red Day

Posted in School, tagged , on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Annika had Red Day in school today.  Not sure what the significance of it was but I think it had to do with being “drug free”.   I looked on line and saw a few links to the Heart Association promoting women’s heart disease prevention programs.  I also say several links to Red Ribbon Week [...]

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School’s Out

Posted in School, tagged , , , on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The boys graduated from elementary school on Tuesday. Here are some pictures from the morning ceremonies. Here is Vikram receiving his diploma. I don’t recall such pomp and circumstance when I graduated from 5th grade! Nikhil and his group were selected to give the graduation speech. Listen to his wise words…. never knew he was [...]

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School Awards

Posted in School, tagged , , on June 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The kids had their end of year awards ceremony this week. Annika got a Reading award in the school Reading Counts Program. Nikhil got awards for Science, Reading and a couple of Field Day Awards (one for track and one for long jump). Vikram raked in a few for Math Olympiad and Reading. The kids [...]

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Flat Stanley Visits Madhura

Posted in School, tagged , , on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Annika had a school project called Flat Stanley. She sent her Stanley to Madhura maushi in Melbourne Australia. With Madhura, Stanley travelled the city and visited many special places. When Stanley returned, Annika got to present Stanley’s adventures to her class. She now wants to go visit Australia!

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Petersbery Writing Award

Posted in School, tagged , , on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Last week Annika received an award for her 1st grade class for creative writing. Here are some pictures.

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Vikram Got Student of the Month

Posted in School, tagged , , , on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Vikram got a Student of the Month award for his class. Here he is accepting his award!

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Annika the Math Wiz

Posted in School, tagged , , on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Annika received a Math Achievement award for her first grade. Here she is with her teacher Mrs. Shattles.

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Reading Counts

Posted in Kids, Life, School, tagged , , on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Well, we’re back home and adjusting to the time zone shift. The kids all of a sudden have picked up a voracious reading habit.  Here is the three of them hanging out on the sofa in the evening reading.  No coaxing or urging required – just genuine interest.  It warms my heart!

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Walk to School Day

Posted in Kids, School, tagged , , on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Today was International Walk to School Day (IWALK)! I have the day off as I’m driving to Moab this afternoon so I walked the kids to school.  It is about a mile each way.

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First Day of School

Posted in School, tagged , on September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The kids started school this week. Nikhil and Vikram are in 5th grade and Annika is in 1st grade. They are happy with their new teachers and have their friends in their class. Here is Annika with her friends.

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Math and Science at UC Irvine

Posted in School, tagged , on August 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The kids just got done with Math and Science camp at UC Irvine. The boys did experiments on copper pennies. They made their own mold garden consisting of old cheese, mango skins, stale bread etc. They also built a cardboard roller coaster. Annika also attended and made ice cream, experimented on eggs and vinegar and [...]

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Graduation

Posted in Friends, School on July 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Last week, Anjali and I went to Ayushee’s graduation from Oxford Academy. She graduated with distinction and received several scholarships to the school of her choice, the USC Medical Program. After the graduation ceremonies, we went to The Melting Pot for dinner. Congratulations to Ayushee!

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