Sundays

Our Sunday schedule has been turned upside down by swimming classes starting at 8:30am. 7am on a Sunday morning is generally quiet in most houses. Naina was good at classes, some tears at getting into the pool but otherwise really happy the whole class. N showed distinct disdain for authority and generally ignored the instructors.

It's durga pooja time, the lead up to deepavali. So we also went to the temple today. N surprised us. Firstly she did namaskar/pranam to all the deities after being shown what to do. She then walked up to Hanuman (the monkey god) and said "Hi" in a casual teenager fashion and then did pranam.

Curious how she recognized him. She does listen to a lot of hanuman songs, religious songs about the ramayan. But the statue bears no real resemblance to what she sees on her daily breakfast video (she insists on it). That said, monkeys are her favourite animal. She's going to go nuts in India.