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Hi! This is an essay I wrote for a school assignment on the topic of torrential rain:

Rain through a car window

     When I opened my car’s window to feel the rain, the first thing that hit me was the strong smell of rainwater. Although I felt excited by the rain, I was hit by an icy blast of cold air. I could feel the raindrops on my arm. I could taste the salt in the rain. Shop owners were packing up their displays and the sun was setting making the already grey, cloudy sky darker. The road glistened with raindrops and I could hear the pitter-patter of the rain all around me. In the distance, I could see lightning and hear thunder. The overall atmosphere was dull though stormy. As I was stuck in a traffic jam, I could hear cars honking all around me due to water logging on the roads. The smell of pollution from the cars was terrible.

     I felt grateful that I was in a car and not walking through this rain. I could see pedestrians scurrying for shelter with umbrellas over their heads. The rain was cascading down like a waterfall and the pitter-patter sounded more like bullets. The storm raged on as it became more like a cloudburst. The streets were flooding up and trees swaying like something had hit them. Shop fronts had ‘closed’ signs on them and most pedestrians were stranded. The honking of the cars sounded like an orchestra gone horribly out of tune. I no longer felt drops of rain on my hand, it seemed as if someone had turned on a tap.

     The lightning lit up the whole sky like a display and thunder sounded more like cannon shots. If I closed my eyes and listened carefully, it sounded almost like I was in the middle of a “science-fiction-end-of-the-world” movie. The atmosphere was changing from gloomy to thunderous and thrilling. I could taste the dampness in the air. I was hoping the rain would stop soon when all of a sudden our car’s engine stopped whirring. GREAT!

I hope you liked it as it is probably the best descriptive essay I have ever written and I got a 19 on 20 for it. Earlier, a while ago my best family friend had come to visit from Dubai- here's a pic of my parents with hers:

This year April my family and I shifted into our new house and one or two weekends back we had a house warming party which was majorly overdue! It was fun- sort of...

I recently finished reading Insurgent which is the 2nd book in the Divergent trilogy. Now I am waiting for my mom to finish the second book 'cause then she will start the 3rd one and tell me if it is appropriate for me to read (which by the way I am sure it will be), just like she did for the 2nd one- and all because she heard from one of her friends that it is inappropriate.Whatever.

 Even though I am blogging this very late, on the 15th August and Janmashtmi long weekend, we went to Orrisa with some friends. First we went to Bhubhaneshwar and then to a nearby beach place called Puri. In Bhubhaneshwar my parents went to see a temple while I watched Houseful in the hotel! It was a good resort with loads of fun stuff. In Puri we went to the beach and pool.
This is a picture of me with my sister (right) and my friend (left).

This is temple we saw on our way driving from Bhubhaneshwar to Puri- the famous Sun temple in Konark. We got a guide who explained the whole philosophy in a lot of detail but I won't bore you with that!

TTYL

SMITI!