"Anjan K. Nath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Umesh,Congratulations!There was a time when convocations were held in Indian universities. I guess those were the times when only a handful of students used to graduate and expenses were small.I have not attended any one of my graduation convocations, but tomorrow I have to attend my students graduation and have to deliver the "Convocation Address." Quite a odd feeling!Anjan----- Original Message -----From: umesh sharmaSent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 2:23 AMSubject: Re: [Assam] What makes Indians top spellers-commencementAlpanaji,Thank you for your support and job-life advice. I too am on lookout for jobs and visa issues. I have been thinking about the hugely popular commencement(grdauation) ceremony in US at all levels of education -as you rightly mentioned (I read about primary schools' commencements in newspapers.) I did get some hints from my professors and saw the huge engine in action over the past few days. I'll right about it in another email.Regards._______________________________________________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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