New Arrivals Aananya Daughter of Reema and Tapas Das Lavkush Son of Miki and Badal Sarkar Durga Puja 2009 www.batj.org 105 My Dubai Trip Sneha Kundu, Grade I ast winter, I went to my cousin’s Lhouse in Dubai. There I went to Desert. It is full of sand. I could not see anything without sand. Everywhere it much fun but sometimes I was sand and sand! got scared. I tried to make a sand house there. There I saw Camel and I went on Desert Safari. It is a I cannot forget that trip. car ride in desert. It was very I want to go there again. g PUJA WORD Search WORDS: 1. PUJA 10. LION 2. DHAK 11. PEACOCK 3. DURGA 12. MOUSE 4. SARASWATI 13. SWAN 5. LAXMI 14. OWL 6. KARTIK 15. SINDUR 7. GANESH 16. DHUP 8. MAHISASHUR 17. SHANKH 9. SHIVA M G S H A N K H L M S A R A S W A T I I D N H G H A R P O T K E A I R A T I N A C S L R S H I V A S O H W D H A K D L I C M O U S E S W A N A G A R B A T H J D E M K G D H U P U U P O L A X M I S P R 106 Anjali liens Nishant Chanda, Grade III “Mom can I buy this book pack” I asked “Get up and go to work.” my mom. I jumped out of my bed and saw a Every time I come to the store I used creature standing beside me. to look at it and wished if I can buy this, “Ten thousand thundering typhoons!!! or if I can get this for my next 9th birthday ” I exclaimed. present. “Hey! I have seen you some where, My mom asked, “How much does it you’re the one in my DS game,” I said. cost?” “What’s your name?” “About 5000 Yen” I answered slowly “From where did you come from?” with hope in my heart that if she said yes “Why do you smell like a fish?” it will be so nice. The creature who looked like a green She said, “OK, go and buy it” and she capsicum with long, thin, straight, and handed 5000 Yen to me. cylindrical antennae. “Yes….” I was so excited. Finally, I was He even had shoes on! getting my favorite item from the store. Then he started to answer my questions. Then, I bought it, and went back to my “I’m an Alien, my name is Brainicle,” he home. said. “I came from a different galaxy named Zyropedia. That is about 60 lightyears away When I reached there, I started to open from the earth. In our planet everywhere the pack. Actually, that pack contains a book its water, as we live in the water I smell like about Aliens and behind the book; there is a fish.” one Nintendo DS chip. I went through the To reach our planet we have to cross book very fast and the asteroid belt. started playing the Then he added, game. In the game, “You remember we were the Aliens the DS game which and came from you used to play different planet. when you were a The missions of little kid. I am the the Aliens are to maker of that DS digout the main chip. I wanted to monuments and make the humans places from the aware of this fact Earth and takes it that if you do not and fix it to their take care of your Planet. As my beautiful planet, summer vacations someday we Aliens are going, I used to will come to dig play the game for your land and take many hours in a day at home or at friends your Earth’s beautiful monuments to our home while I have sleepovers. One day while planet. As our population is now growing, I was playing, I fell asleep on the couch...... we want to live on the land. Now we are here with thousands of our team at work. It was the year 2022; I was 22 years Now go and start working outside with our old, I was sleeping on the couch. Suddenly team.” somebody poured freezing cold water on my head, and shouted in my ears, Hearing this I was so frustrated that I “Wake up”. ran to open the window. I saw thousands “How long you’ll sleep it’s time to work”. of creatures like Brainicle outside in my Durga Puja 2009 www.batj.org 107 Aliens lawn they were digging the land. A big flat With that suddenly a bright light shined structure looking like a space ship was in the sky. I covered my eyes with both of standing silently on my lawn. On the wall my hands. of the spaceship was written 9-13 Brainicles Corp. caution 10,000 volts. My mom was standing beside me. She I asked Brainicle, “What is that standing was calling, on the lawn?” “Wake up.” “This is one of our ships in which we will “How long you’ll sleep?” load your land and monuments, like this we “Get up.” have thousands of ships” he answered. “Mom, please close the curtain. Bright “Many of our ships have already left light is coming on my eyes” I cried. Earth loading tons of land” he added. “I am in the middle of my job of saving I looked out of the window, every second my Earth.” a square centimeter of land is dug out and My mom asked, “Are you dreaming the land is going down. They are loading it something?” on the space ship. Watching this I was very While thinking what happened was shocked and start thinking they must be real or my dream, I jumped out of my bed, loading our great monuments like TajMahal ran to the window and saw outside. There of India, Great Wall of China, Egypt’s great was nothing. There were no Aliens, no Pyramids, Eifel tower of Paris, Petronas Spaceships. My lawn was intact. tower of Malaysia, Empire state building of Only, I saw my dad coming back from USA and many others. Therefore, I must do fishing. He had caught a giant fish. Sharp something to stop them. I jumped out of smell of fish was coming from there. the window and shouted loudly, ”You can’t do that, I’ll not let you do that” and I pulled Then I realized that everything was in the gravity lever of the ship all the pieces my dream about Aliens. g of earth fell down in their original places. 108 Anjali The Thief Arunansu Patra, Grade IV nce upon a time, there lived an a ring from a queen’s finger”- the king said. intelligent thief. One day he was going The thief went in front of the dressing room Oto rob a palace but was caught by a where the queen was. “Your majesty, please solider and taken to the king of the palace. hurry and give me your ring, somebody is The king asked the thief for two tasks to be going to steal it”. The thief stuck out his done. “The first task is to steal two cows hands through the curtains and the queen from the farm without letting the farmer put the ring on his hand. Next the king know that the cows are stolen, ”said the came and said the exactly the same thing king. The thief went to the farm and got the as the thief did. The queen was confused two cows. He cut off of the tails and planted and said, “I thought I already gave it to you”. them on the ground. When the farmer came Suddenly the king found out that the thief back, the farmer said “Oh no! Strong earth has succeeded. He found the thief and said, has sucked down my cows; I have to go get “My intelligent thief, you are now free, but new ones right away” said the farmer and only if you promise to stop robbing people, the farmer set right away. Then they went OK”. “From now on, I will not rob people any back to the palace. “The last task is to steal more” - the thief agreed. g Healthy Eating For Kids Aishwarya Kumar, Grade IV A YR MI The food P D has six different groups: • Nausea • Grains • Vomiting • Vegetables • Stomach pain • Fruits • Diarrhea • Fats and oils Known food stuff which causes • Milk and dairy products allergies should be avoided. Meat, beans, fish and nuts. A lot of water is always useful to Grains and Veggies should be eaten the body since it carries oxygen to a lot followed by milk and fruits. A little cells in the body, less water healthy diet should have as little means the cells might dry up too. This oil and fat as possible. While eating situation is called dehydration. Water snacks checking the nutrition cleanses the body washing all waste facts help in ensuring that there in the body. In hot and dry places it is not much fat in it. Calories increase is very easy to become dehydrated weight, exercise helps burning the without water. calories and reducing weight. Milk Caffeine is a chemical that is found in at least once a day helps you to be tea leaves, coffee beans, cacao beans and stronger and might as well to live longer.