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