Hearty Congratulations to our granddaughter Pragathi Kasani-Akula on ISEF awards

We are very excited to share that our granddaughter Pragathi Kasani-Akula was awarded 1st place Grand award in Biochemistry at the 75th International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Columbus, Ohio. 

We are even more excited that Pragathi received the Dudley R. Herschbach SIYSS award at ISEF. This award includes a trip for Pragathi to Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar during the Nobel prize awarding ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden !!

Pragathi's 1st place Grand award: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxCYjn5FE77mf_pqtJMAGRgOc6biAie1GW Dudley R. Herschbach SIYSS award: https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxi26AqptFKnzO85_GB7_5WW4lCtExnOjx Pragathi receiving Dudley R. Herschbach SIYSS award: https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx7o52O7B0MegxwKiijiQC_BOdQ1u1TfnO

Celebrating our third anniversary of being in Canada

Dear our Friends & Well-wishers:

Good Evening. How are you ?

Our landed paper tells us that we, my wife Vijayalakshmi and I immigrated to Canada on May 25, 2006. Today, we are celebrating our 3rd Anniversary of being in Canada. We are happy about it.

We enjoy the best of everything in this great country, Canada.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Somayya Kasani & Vijayalakshmi Kasani

Hello Somayya,

I am well as my family, too! How are you and your family?

Congratulations on your 3rd anniversary of being in Canada! I do love Canada and have been extremely fortunate to have spent my life here.

Everyone at the College is well. We will be having another class start on June 15 so we will be having 3 classes again.

Take care,
Have a marvelous Monday!
Alice

Congratulations Somayya

Enjoy. Celebrate. All the best in the future for your family.

Ciao, Jerry, from Ottawa

Thank you Somaiah, for sharing.
Glad that you have come to Canada to share your wisdom and pleasant personality with all of us.
Regards
Cynthia
Hello Somayya:

I am delighted in celebrating your third anniversary to Canada. May both of you enjoy the best of every thing in this great country. We all value your friendship and wisdom.

Wishing you the best, always.
Charan
Congratulations! Canada is a wonderful and peaceful country. Good to be immigrant of Canada.

Dr.Maiti
Hello Somayya!

Congratulations - I'm sure I am one of many New Democrats who are very happy to have you with us here in Canada!

Warmest regards,
Jeff Sloychuk
Dear Somayya,

Canada is very fortunate to have you and your family here!

How are your doing? Are you back from holidays yet? If so, call me and we can get together.

I haven’t forgotten about that reference letter and will get it done before we meet.

Best Wishes,
Sharon
Somayya,

Thank you for your email. I hope you are successful in receiving additional volunteer work at the Centre which will enhance your skills to find future employment.

I hope you find some suitable volunteer work at EMCN.

Helen Congratulations Mr. Kasani.
Very glad to hear that.
Best regards, Divakar

Many congratulations on this happy occasion which many other new immigrants find full of frustrations.
May joy fill your years to come in Canada.
Ajmer

International Adult Learner's Week

Hi Somaiah:

I will try to outline the nature of my call in a few sentences. September 8 – 12 is International Adult Learner week. At Metro, we would like to profile a couple of adult learners who we believe exemplify life-long-learning. I instantly thought of you and the path that your career has taken. I have always been impressed with your commitment to volunteering your time and talents. I was wondering if I could put your name forward? I do not know exactly what may or may not come of this, however, I wanted to check with you first before giving your name and phone number to our marketing person. She may call you and ask you some questions. One of the questions I am sure she will ask is “how has Metro helped you to pursue life-long-learning”? This is why I called your house yesterday. You can either respond via email or you can give me a call.


Thank You,
Gerald Stobbe

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Dear Mr Gerald Stobbe,

Good Morning. Thank you very much for your e-mail.
And I also thank you for the good impression you have for me. I will always try to keep it up.

Yes! I will never forget in my life, the way I had stepped into Metro and became the part of its learning activities and part of its lovely people, the great teachers, the other staff members, the principal and also other greater community of learners from different countries and cultures. I will never forget the beautiful experiences I had.

I had no objection sir, in giving my profile to any for asking further questions about that beautiful life, which inspired me to continue my efforts in the path of learning life-long.

I thank once again you, and your dedicated the staff members especially, my loving teachers, Mrs. Lynda, Mrs. Estella, Mrs. Kamala and finally Joan B Farhall. Not only me, but also my other family members remember these people as I shared my day today class-room experiences at home.

Finally I like to convey my sincere thanks everybody on the occasion of International Adult Learner week, 2008.

Sincerely, Somayya Kasani
www.kasani.org

Congratulations AmmaNaana!

Note of " Thank You" From Thankful Class ESL Level 6‏

Dear our teacher, Mrs. Joan,

Good Morning. Today is August 07, 2008. Tomorrow is the last working day for us, the ESL students. ESL Level 6 is almost the final step for us in learning the language. So some of us take career oriented courses. I also hope to join in a different school taking a Professional Program. In a way it is a turning point to us.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. I thank you now on behalf of me and my pretty class, ESL Level 6 for everything you’ve done for us.

Your kind attention touched our minds and our hearts. You gave us motivation to pursue. We’ll remember our whole lives through.

“A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.”

Joan! You are our good teacher. So, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Sincerely,
Somayya Kasani & the ESL Level6 class

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves...

Dear Children,

Good Morning. I came to the School, just now. We, Kamala, Iris and I attended a pancake party this morning. Some company offered this party as part of their advertisement purpose.

Have a nice day, all of you.
With Love, Nana

Today should always be our most wonderful day..

Dear Children,

I reached my school, a few minutes ago. We are going on a trip to the downtown taking our school bus, to watch the July 17 Parade.

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time - not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day.

Have a Wonderful Day!

With Love, Naana.

My creative writing on Mothers' Day written as part of my lab assignment

The custom of honoring motherhood is a nice thing. To honor mothers is a great service to humanity. Their patience, their dedication toward their children is really praise-worthy. Mothers are not only raising children, they are also working on par with others in a befitting manner in this 21st century. If I take Mrs. Lynda, Mrs. Kamalah and Mrs. Joan, our beloved teachers, as an example, they have successfully raised their children and have continued to teach us in good spirits the whole day. It is really wonderful to know how much potential they possess. They are competing with the sun and the moon every day, just like my dear wife, Vijayalakshmi. My wife, Vijaya, is a wonderful home-maker and the backbone of our family.

I salute all of them on Mothers’ Day for their sincere service. Yes! I believe that we have to celebrate Mother’s Day with a good spirit all over the world in order to give our thanks to them.

May Day Thoughts

1. We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

2. Failure is good. It's fertilizer. We learn from making mistakes.

3. If we don't change, we don't grow, if we don't grow, we are not living.

4. Learning is the noble change of broadening our scope.

5. The happiness of our life depends on the quality of our thoughts.

Dear Children, Good Morning.

Today is my fourth day at our school, in this present session. I am enjoying my learning at our school. I had my walking tour for half an hour in our great Bonnie Doon Mall, close to our school. I reached there at 7 a.m and I had left for my school around 8 a.m. I am making acquaintances with the other people who participate in morning walk in the mall.

I spend my time in computer lab for half an hour listening to some language exercises. And I go to my class at 8: 55 a.m everyday, by that time, Mr. Loney also come there to open the class-door for us. He is a great resourceful teacher indeed. We are lucky to have him for this term.

Thank you, our dear Peddakonda you admired the way how I interact with new people each day and develop the friendship, in your last e-mail. In fact every human being desires the noble quality of FRIENDSHIP with his fellow-beings. It is human’s gregarious nature. Due to this quality the man is living in a society, after all.

More in my next e-mail, Have a great day, dear all.
With Love, Amma - Nana

One can learn more from ten days of agony, than from ten years of content

Dear our Sweet Children, Good Morning. How are you?

Today is the second day of our course, Intensive ESL program. This is a 15 week program. It started on April 28, 2008 and ends on August 08, 2008. And we have holidays from August 09, 2008 to September 01, 2008. The next session starts on September 02, 2008.

Mr. David Loney is our teacher. He is a good teacher. He has a very good name in the institute. Everybody likes his teaching. He says not to worry much but must pay him ATTENTION all the time for what he says. We are 17 pupils in total in our class. I am sitting on the first row on the first seat from the left in the class. I am enjoying learning the new ideas/ concepts in cultivating the language skills. Yesterday he discussed the importance of using correct Grammar in speaking, listening and writing.

Today I shall collect my check for $ 2, 435 from Alberta Works Learners, $ 225 for books and $ 2, 210 for Tuition from our office.

Have a nice day, all of you.
With Love, Nana

" One can learn more from ten days of agony, than from ten years of content."

"When we can see crisis as an opportunity, our life becomes not easier, but more s a t i s f y i n g. Problems are not stop signs, they are guide lines. I am going to be meeting people today, who talk too much, people who are selfish, egoistical and ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people."