Photos by Catherine

The Roof

 I love the roof.  It is a large space on top of the apartments.  People hang their laundry on ropes tied around water towers made of concrete.  The roof is much larger than it appears in the picture, the water towers you see father away are also part of the roof.  My sister my mom and I, go up there for the breeze during the daily power outage at 3:00, lasting until about 4:30.  It is so hot inside, that we need to go up to the roof to escape the heat. Sometimes, the power goes out a lot earlier, like today-- 11:00.  During the power outage, we can't even get the Internet.  The roof is really big, and it is very high up, so it escapes most of the heat.  Of course, you have to wear shoes on the roof or else your feet will burn.  I find that in India, it is better to test any metal that has been in the sun for a long time before touching it.  It is the same for the floor of the roof.  The roof is really fun and I go there whenever I can.

Isabel 

10/17/08

The Breezy Beach

The Breezy Beach
     The beach that at the end of our street is part of the Bay of Bengal. The Bay of Bengal connects to the Indian Ocean.  Our beach is called Breezy Beach.  The name tells the truth; it is fantastically windy.   
     Every evening I go to the beach with my dad and my sister. Sometimes my mom comes but mostly she does not come. I sometimes go in the water. The waves are pretty big.  Other times, I build sand castles and find clams and call one Mr. K and the other one Mrs. Q.  Mrs. Q and Mr. K try to get away when you put them in water and you see their foot.  The clams are longer, more brightly colored, thinner and smoother, than the ones that are found in Connecticut.  
     The crabs here look a little strange. Their eyes are directly one top of their head.  The crabs are sand-colored and they dig holes in the sand.  They are everywhere.  I like to run on the beach and chase the really big crabs.  They run away into the water.  They are super fast.  
     People throw plastic garbage bags of flowers into the ocean.  My dad thinks it's a funeral ritual but we're not quite sure.  
      Breezy Beach is connected to a walkway that is called the Breezy Beach Walkway. There are puppies on the walkway but mostly we see people on the Breezy Beach Walkway.  They are running, sitting, walking, bicycling and doing yoga. There are lots of street dogs on the Breezy Beach Walkway.  They look like they are exercising too except the dogs are not bicycling or doing yoga.  
     There are always interesting things happening on Breezy Beach and its walkway.  

Clio 

10/17/08