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Amulya, 4 years old, reads about Shila who inspires him for the Genius Event 2018 taking place around the world and also in Nepal. In Nepal Spiny Babbler and 92Y are celebrating young people across the nation in multiple indigenous languages.

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Sumi Magar creates a song on Yeonmi Park, a North Korean girl and her struggles to escape an oppressive regime, who inspires her for the Genius Event 2018 taking place around the world and also in Nepal. In Nepal Spiny Babbler and 92Y are celebrating young people across the nation in multiple indigenous languages.

https://youtu.be/pHlCLAm2IY8

Utkrishta Mulmi creates a song on Vidheha Ranjan who inspires him for the Genius Event 2018 taking place around the world and also in Nepal. In Nepal Spiny Babbler and 92Y are celebrating young people across the nation in multiple indigenous languages.

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Shila Shrestha creates a song on Amulya Man Pradhan who inspires him for the Genius Event 2018 taking place around the world and also in Nepal. In Nepal Spiny Babbler and 92Y are celebrating young people across the nation in multiple indigenous languages.

Bambi

by Vidheha Ranjan

Bambi was sleeping while his mother was awake. Bambi woke up. Raccoons, owl, rabbits, squirrels were there. Owl teased Bambi. Bambi laughed. Then he got up. It was very funny.

When everyone left and Bambi was sleeping a baby rabbit was remaining.

One day Bambi had grown bigger, he and his Mamu were eating grass. Hunters came and shot his mother. I don’t know how I felt. A big deer, his father, helped Bambi. He showed Bambi the way. Suddenly there was a forest fire caused by the hunters’ carelessness.

They ran and ran and ran. All the other animals also ran. The hunters’ dogs came. Bambi helped his friend. They doggies had trapped her in the rocks. Bambi hit them with his antlers. Then he took his friend away.

Winter came. He left with his friend. Bambi is much bigger now. He had antlers now. A bad deer was there and Bambi had to fight him. The bad deer tried to hit his friend. Bambi won the fight. He and his friend lived together.

In the end, his father leaves and Bambi is on his own. I liked the movie. Amulya dada, Bishes dada, and I watched Bambi movie in the tent. There were toys there.

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Bishes, 4 years old, reads "Anansi Helps a Friend"

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Amulya reads "I can Say Toys"

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Godavari Adventures

by Megshaa Gurung

23 January 2018

We went to hiking in Godavari. We reached Paanch Dhara first and played in the freezing waters of the pond and took photos. There were so many fish! I wanted to catch them, but they swam away from me quickly. We all were very excited. It was a heap load of fun!

After we played, then it was time for a visit to the botanical gardens. We bought the tickets and bought cotton candy which everyone loved. We saw beautiful and colourful flowers. We were walking along the paths and loving the plants and the greenery when someone called us and told us that we had to pay extra to take photos of ourselves, how silly!

There were lots of thorns, so we should be careful. Everywhere we go we find lapsi hog plums and we collected many, I think the price of the entry tickets was made up that way.

There was a waterfall. We saw few actors dancing. They were making a movie. We watched them for a bit and it was a lot more boring than watching an actual movie. We again started to walk. We saw a big fountain. The water got all over my body and I was wet! It was winter still and still I loved it. I don’t think my mother will be happy if she finds out though.

Next we went off to a house filled with cacti. Of course, Amulya had to fall on one of the plants and get a million little thorns all over his shoulders! He was very brave though.

Then we went into two greenhouses full of flowers. After we saw the lovely lovely plants, we found a place to rest. We rested there for some minutes. We climbed up the rocks and that was very adventurous and a bit scary as well.

It was time to go home now so we packed all our things and we went back to the van.

Artists and Art

11 February 2018, Sunday

by Anita Bhattarai

We learn a lot about art. We visit the Park Gallery and other places regularly. We have done exhibitions at the Nepal Art Council, Patan Museum, and have the Spiny Babbler Art Gallery downstairs. Pallav sir teaches us art, Surekha ma’am is our most recent art intern. She teaches us. Before that Tara Buba, a Portugese German shared some time with us.

Surekha ma’am continued what Pallav sir was doing with us. She wrote and researched different artists and explained about them in her class. The artists she shared with us are Morandi, Clemente, Francis Bacon, Leonardo da Vinci, Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama, Chagall, Frida Kahlo and Michelangelo. They are artists that paint in different styles of arts. They are some of the most famous artists. Surekha ma’am also practices art herself. She lives in the US and while in Nepal, she is learning the Paubha Newari art style.

After learning with her, we have made dolls, artwork using small circles, pencil work, pastel work and other experiments.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

9 February 2018, Friday

by Megshaa Gurung

Directed by: Joe Johnston; Produced by: Penney Finkelman Cox; Starring: Rick Moranis; Runtime: 94 minutes

There was a lovely house where two kids and their father lived. Two other kids lived in another house. It was adventure of two kids who got shrunk by a machine made by their father. A ball knocked the switch and the laser hit the kids. The movie was great. I like the scene when a scorpion and an ant fight. Since the kids were so small, the ant and the scorpion looked huge. Vidheha liked the entire movie and Amulya liked the scene when the kids became small. Bisesh liked the scene when a man threw smoking cigarette and for the little kids, it was like a volcano explosion. Their father reversed the machine to make the kids big again. Vidheha liked it so much that she wants to watch it again.