Umesh-ji:
Hearty Congratulations! You did it in less than one year....that is just
great! You ought to send us a picture.
You're right, it is a shock. I am not sure if it
is cultural or financial, but it is amazing that graduation ceremonies
are held in each college (and schools including Middle schools, if not
elementary) almost every semester, whereas in India, we don't see that
for years, and the faculty MUST attend these to encourage the students. Our
college even provided us with new sets of cap and gown to
attend these ceremonies year after year.
I wonder why they don't do that in India, does it cost that much money?
But don't they spend a lot of money in cultural functions every year?
As you know, they are short of school teachers and many schools do
sponsor you to get an H1-B (now you must be getting that 'practical
training' visa for a year or so, and eventually the green card, and gives
you a chance to get the teacher's certificate within a few years. And in the
mean time, if you find a compatible life-partner, things fall into place and
things get even easier.
Again, Congrtulations and Best Wishes on your job hunt.
>From: umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To:
"Alpana B. Sarangapani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Assam] What makes Indians top
spellers
>Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:01:44 +0100
(BST)
>
>Dilpi-da and Alpanaji,
>
>Very interesting
observations!! I graduated yesterday-quite a culture shock
from
>NO-ceremonies back
home.
>
>Umesh
>
>"Alpana B. Sarangapani"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>And Umesh-ji, in
most of these spelling bee contests, you have to spell the words the
American way.. what i mean by that is that you can't spell "labour" but
"labor", not "visualised" but "visualized" "checks" not "cheques", etc,
etc.
>
>One of my sisters-in-law was in one of the contests for
charity organized by the banker's association (if I remember correctly) in
Housto! n a few years ago, and she missed to be the finalist as she spelt
"check-books" as "cheque-books".
>
>So sometimes it is to your
disadvantage, if you know both - British and the American way of spelling a
word :). The kids that are born and brought-up here would only (unless
he/she is going to be a scholar and is interested in acquiring knowledge of
anything and goes an extra mile to learn everything :)) know the American
way of spelling these words.
>
>
> >From: Dilip/Dil
Deka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: umesh sharma
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Malabika Brahma
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected]
>
>Subject: Re: [Assam] What makes Indians top spellers
> >Date:
Thu, 9 Jun 2005 06:54:09 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Umesh,
>
>Not really. These children were born and raised in the USA. They do not
know many languages.
> >The real truth is parental influence.
Sometim! e in the last thirty years, it became a fashion and passion in the
Indian community to take Spelling Bee seriously, mainly by word of mouth.
Many children and their parents practice together, using published material
for the event. With serious practice, the children start seeing the pattern
of spelling, even in words they do not know the meaning of. It is fun to
watch when the parent calls out a word with his/her Indian way of
pronouncing, the child spells it wrong and then the child blames the mistake
on the pronunciation.
> >Dilipda
> >
> >
>
>umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>surprising that all 4 toppers were Indians. Could be because we have so
many languages so that we learn to make relation between words across
languages --and get a feel about etymology etc.
> >
>
>Umesh
> >
> >Malabika Brahma
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/weekinreview/05berger.html
>
>
> >
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