Diwali Report (Concise version) [Emma]

Saturday was Dewali, which is the festival of lights. My family and I walked around the city for a little bit and looked at all the lights that were set up. The best part was when we got back to the apartment and watched everyone set off fireworks in the parking lot. Most of them were these ones that looked like big fountains, or smaller ones that spun around on the ground. My mom, Lily, and Clara all went into the apartment pretty soon, but me and my dad stayed outside for a long time. There was one later on that shot a bunch of little fireballs up into the air and they were all hitting the building and bouncing off. There was also this one guy who bought big fireworks. They were like the ones you see on the Fourth of July. There was also one that shot confetti everywhere, which was all sitting on the ground getting burnt up by other fireworks afterwards. The most dangerous things were the bottle rockets. At first it was just the adults setting them off and it was fine, but later the kids started setting them off and there was one that went backwards, hit the building and bounced off and landed three or four feet from me and my dad. The adults helped them after that. It was fun.

Last week Clara had a birthday party. There was somewhere around 30 kids in our apartment and they were all running around and screaming. They played Pass the Pillow, which is the same as Hot Potato except there’s no song that goes with it, you just play music and stop it at a random time. They were yelling too loud and couldn’t hear the music though. We attempted to get them to play Dead Dog, but either they had too much energy or didn’t understand that dead dogs can’t yell. Then we brought out snacks, which they were very excited about and there was more yelling and shoving of people. Over all it wasn’t as bad as I expected. They didn’t break anything and my hurt toe only got stepped on twice and one of the times was by Lily.