Possible Stop Motion

I had an idea for a stop motion when I re-watched the Kit movie the other day. I decided I'll try to make a Kit stop-motion. First, I made a list of what I need, and boy do I need a lot! I'll have to make do with spare fabric and cardboard for a while I SUPPOSE. See, it's a lot of work sewing everything, especially when you don't have any patterns from the 1930s and you don't know how to use a machine, let alone read a pattern. I hand sew everything I make, but I managed to make a fairly 1930's skirt for Gwen out of faded soft pink. I think I want to call the movie Lost: Cincinnati, Ohio.
It'll be about Kit finding a lost Hobo girl and helps her go back to her family. It'll be mostly based on the books, and the movie too, at the same time. This won't be like another movie I made "O Re Chhori" because it'll be an actual stop-motion, not my sister moving the dolls around and dropping them accidentally. Huh? Don't worry about it.
I'm also thinking of doing a Samantha theme-Agnes-It would be about a girl just like Samantha, except not Samantha because I don't have any dark-brown haired dolls besides Ruthie, who is a mini, annoyingly.
Sooo.....whadja think? Lost, or Agnes.
Srajana (Neela's cousin Lakshmi is visiting here now, btw, and wants to try a computer out."
PS: I want to make it about 30 minutes long, so it's going to take a long time.
P.P.S: I might not even do a stop motion.

Jamaica and Miss Matejka

Miss Matejka is a lady who lives in a little house. She owns the whole camp, and also is the cook. She is the best cook in the world. Honestly, yesterday's supper, whole grain bread with carrots and round beef on the side and buttermilk with cantaloupe and cookies for dessert! Mmmmmm..... Her cookies were to die for. Chocolate all the way.......Wasabi peas would be the only thing to make her meals better.
I had this conversation with her. I was helping her bake the cookies, and she asked me....
"Where are you from?"
"Oregon."
"Oh! How nice?"
"Very. But there is quite a lot of rain."
"Where did you live before boarding school?"
"Minnesota."
"Isn't it very cold there?"
"Yes! Much colder than Oregon."
"Colder than Oregon?" she asked, doubtfully.
She still seems to doubt that Minnesota is colder than Oregon. I will have to show her a weather report sometime.
Kaya is in Queen of Spains Valley, Jamaica. She says it's very beautiful, but she is so close to home she can smell it.
Sonali

Iceland and "A'Dancin the Tarantella"

Kaya went to the Iceland today. It' s pretty cool. She said it's beautiful back in Europe, but the weird thing is that it's not icy or snowy at all. "It's very green," she said. "Similar to Oregon. It's very cold, not similar to Oregon like there." (She meant that.)
I enrolled in a cultural dance class here at camp, and we are learning to dance the Tarantella. Tarantella by Drdla is an exciting musical piece that we are a'dancin' to, as our teacher, Maria Ada Barbara Russo says. She is a tall, daring lady, and an amazing dancer. And the Tarantella? Well, all I can say is, that it's amazingly fun!
Camp is going well. Laundry is actually really easy, because the hardest part is just the ironing, and I like ironing. Neela hates gardening, but she likes being outside, so she doesn't mind it too much. I can't believe we have to go home on Friday morning. It's like everything's happening so fast~! Oh well.
Sonali
PS: Kaya is thinking of coming back early! Maybe even by the start of 8th grade~! She says it's possible.

Camp Interactiva and Innerstar University

Kaya went to Haiti. She saw all the earthquake damage, and said it's very, sad. Well, I would have been sad too.
Yesterday, Neela and I, Sonali headed off to Camp Interactiva. Only two students from AG Performing Arts get into the camp every year, AND only the best students academically. They have internet, but only for half an hour, so I have to make this quick. Here is the daily schedule:
7:00-8:00-Breakfast
8:00-9:00-Interactive Social Studies
10:00-11:00-Scrap-booking, Sewing, and Crocheting
11:00-11:30-Marching
11:30-12:30-Picnic Lunch
12:30-1:00-Letter Writing/Cabin Time
1:00-1:30-Country Visits
1:30-2:00-Ballgames
2:00-3:00-Jobs
3:00-4:00-Photography/Hiking
4:00-5:00-Dinner Cooking
5:00-6:00-Comparing/Contrasting Books to Movies
6:00-7:00-Dinner
7:00-8:00-Poetry/Writing
8:00-9:00- Evening Firework Studies/Fireworks
9:00-9:30-Baking Cookies/Cake Decorating
10:00-Lights Out
We are required to write a letter per day. The rules here are very harsh, but the teachers are very nice, except the jobs teacher. We are a tiny camp next to a mostly doll town that has a few people. The camp is free, but we need to do work for the people in the town. You are assigned a job for the whole two weeks. Some are annoying, like household cleaning, which a doll named Julia was given. Yard work was given to one doll named Aisha. One doll was given the job of making greeting cards for a company, and one doing videography for a family. Ah-Jeong gets to help out with lunch service at a place. For jobs, I was given laundry, and Neela given laundry.
My favorite class is interactive social studies. Each doll who has time traveling abilities is the coach of a team, of about five other dolls. We get a "mission", usually something like finding out the rules for strikers, or going to Galileo's time to help him. It's super awesome!
Sonali
PS: Just found out about Innerstar University. It's VERY DUMB, I tell you. I could use the word "stupid" but Srajana says "stupid" is just as bad as any cuss word. If people seem interested in this reasoning, please comment. Not like anyone does that anyways....hint, hint?

Gabon

Kaya is now in some African country I've never heard of. But I don't really care. THIS is Rebecca, by the way. Not Sonali. She has been hogging my blog FOREVER! But it's OK I guess. I kind of want Kaya to come back too. Our school seems smaller without her.
I'm working on a story, and my signature...........but other than that......life is getting boring.......(sigh). Kaya actually said she may come home earlier, but she wants to see a few more places. (re-sigh)...........
ITS SO BORING OVER HERE! Any ideas on what to post about?
Rebecca

BIG HUGE GIGANTIC HAPPY NEWS!

Kaya is now in Fiji. Oh, yeah, she is going to Albert PARK today or what not, but Srajana is going to the park too! THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF THE WHOLE MONTH! Akkkk!!!

SRAJANA'S REALLY, REALLY GOOD FRIEND, AW., WHO LEFT FOUR WHOLE YEARS AGO FOR D.C., AND THEN FOR LOUSIANA, IS COMING TO VISIT! AND WE WILL GO TO THE PARK TO GET SNOWCONES! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Srajana actually wrote that. She likes writing about herself in the third person, but NOW I am here. Yay me! Sonali!

So...........yesterday I was busy working on a book I am reading. I also am trying to write a book, but it's harder than it looks! I filled out a money order to send for some new books, because our librarian takes all the library books at the end of the school year home with her. (don't ask me!)

But yeah, the summer is kicking off well, I guess. I just hope Kaya has fun traveling the world, and will come home SOON!
Sonali

Ecuador

Kaya is now in Ecuador. She is going to Galapagos National Park today, and is very excited. She said it's a nice change after the bustling city of Copenhagen. Next, she will be going to Fiji, and can't wait.
I am busy practicing my flute, but I have been taken more and more interest in the piano and violin. At our school, we are required to take music, so Neela takes singing and plays the ekdara, Julie plays the drums, Rebecca sings, Ruthie plays violin and a little flute, I play flute and a little piano, Felicity plays guitar and sings a little, Gwen plays the harp mostly and violin sometimes, and Kaya played the drums. Julie was very reluctant to share her drum set, so Kaya decided to play the timpani. And she is very good at it! Ruthie was practicing a tarantella the other day on her violin, and I just listened, dazed by the material of the piece.
I sat down at the piano, and played the hardest piece I KNEW. It was the the famous Bach minuet that every pianist can play if they have been playing more than two years. I'm not very good. Srajana's friend E. can play Cat and Mouse by Aaron Copland. She just started, but she is at a flying speed! She says she needs to work on it at least the whole summer! Wow!
In the evening, I worked on my summer homework. It was to write a gavotte or tarantella. I decided to make a gavotte, because they are generally shorter, and easier to play, so they must be easier to write, right? But no! The notes float in my head easily, but I can't remember what the octaves and rhythms are at all! Oh-well.
Sonali

Hot! Hot! Hot! Plus Denmark.

We went through a scorching period of hot-ness here in the Northwest, and I cannot believe how hot it is still! 83 degrees. The other day, Srajana and her friend, who I will call by her first initial, A., walked to the nearby Dollar Tree. They came back, only to check the thermostat to find that the weather a whopping 98 degrees! (Those of you that live in Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, I apologize if this seems like low temperature to you. But it goes the same way for rain in other places-a drizzle for Oregonians here is like a warning to tourists-Don't step outside! But anyways....)
Two days ago, Kaya left Cambodia for Denmark-actually Europe! People are pretty upset over there apparently because of their crushing defeat by the Netherlands. But an audio walk of Copenhagen helped her stop listen to the complaints. She said she could understand most of it, but not nearly all of it. She said she saw a flyer for a "treatment" today, and did not understand what it was, but the person in the future looked very happy and relax, so she signed up. She then found out what a spa treatment was and had her nails painted and her hair curled. She said "I never go to a......spa....." Her next stop is Ecuador! Lucky girl.
So, I am sitting in the flower garden posting this, when I SHOULD be doing distributive property equations. Oh well. Even though school is out, if we are not visiting family, we have to repeat the class we did worst in. Mine is math, and Neela's is social studies. I barely scratched out a 90% in pre-algebra, and I never understood the distributive property......so, yeah. Gwen can't afford a flight to Minnesota and back, so we time travel back a day so we can. Since we are modern dolls, we can't time travel back to "our own time period" so we either need to catch a plane, or time travel back a day. I am the only modern girl who can time travel in our whole school, so I take Gwen with me sometimes. But I miss Kaya so much! I never know exactly where she is, so I can't really meet her in Ecuador, or Fiji, where she is going after Ecuador. Oh well.
Sonali

Cambodia

I have my mp3 in my hand, listening to Ashokan Farewell as I write this. Our school only allows instrumental music, and only fiddle style, or classical. Ashokan Farewell is my favorite violin song, and even though I play flute, I try to play the song on my flute sometimes, since they both use the treble clef.
Kaya is in Cambodia now, and she is visiting Angkor Wat, the second wonder of the world. She said that it is very beautiful, and she likes Cambodia. She liked lying on the beach and then playing in the ocean, but now seeing the beautiful temple complex makes her gasp in wonder. She said she stared up at the top of the building for a whole, full hour. She will be here three or four more days, depending if her flight to Denmark is delayed or not, because she thinks there is a chance....I don't know, complicated airport stuff!
Srajana is scrapbooking, reading, and songwriting. She is trying to make the most out of the summer, and she is hopefully succeeding. She also wants to try soap carving.

Sonali

The Bahamas

Kaya is now in the Bahamas, and she sent us an E-mail.

"Friends at home, I am in the Bahamas. There are very beautiful beaches and there is very much to go. I am sad to go Cambodia. I love the Bahamas! Here is my paper of new English."



We started making a chart of where Kaya is. I will put it here.
July 1: Afghanistan-Kabul
July 2: Afghanistan-Herat
July 3: Afghanistan-Bamiyan
July 4: Bahamas-Beach
Sonali
PS: I need to help Ruthie find a violin paper she wrote. She wrote a book on the violin and wants to get it published, but she can't find one page!

Goodbye, Kaya

Kaya is leaving our school. It's like she came to this school just to know English so she could travel the world. It's awfully sad. She'll be traveling exactly a year, and then she will come back. She will be traveling to all kinds of places. Some more than others. She started crying yesterday when she told us. She will be leaving for Afghanistan tomorrow. Hopefully, she will have fun traveling the world. Kaya insisted on posting this post, so here is what she says;

"Friends of the world, I want you. But I want to look at the world. France, Italy. Uruguay, Costa Rica. To speak Chinese and Spanish. THAT is where I want to be. I."

Kaya is going to a place where they don't speak much English though. Persian is the main language. I hope she will be able to survive away from family and friends.

Sonali