The surpise lesson!

Here is what we did this afternoon with our principal.

He used to teach Greek!

Surprise.

February 26th is our last day of school, before a well-deserved two-week break. My students will have a lot of time to marvel at the snow shots posted by their Swedish friends, and to listen to the great Greek music posted on the blog of their friends from Greece.
But before going on holiday, the students from Pondicherry will have a big SURPRISE. I am sure they'll talk to you about it in a very near future.
Their Greek friends will be extremely surprised too.
Just wait and see.

Welcome to our new friends from Greece!

Lord Krishna

Lord Krishna is one of the most popular Hindu daties. He is the 9th avatar of lord Vishnu. He was born to a royal family. His mother and father were imprisoned by his mother 's elder brother because there was a prophecie he was the future destroyer of his uncle. So, krishna's father took him to a safer place, in a little village, and gave the baby krishna to villager.
There krishna grew up and he was known there as a thief because he used to steal butter from the neiborhood since he loves it. He used to take care of cows and play graceful songs with his wodden flute. He liked a girl really much: her name was Radha.

Krishna's myth

Krishna literally means the Black, the Dark, alluding to the dark blue skin of the most famous and most revered avatars of Vishnu.
Krishna was born in Mathura.
His father was the prince Vasudeva of Mathura and his mother the princess Devaki. The legend says that he was born from one of Vishnu’s hair. Kamsa, Devaki's brother who was king of Kashi was a sovereign cruel and immoral. He lived in constant fear that the childrens of his sister would take over the throne. So, he killed six successive children of Devaki and he emprisonned his sister with her husband.
Since his birth, the little Krishna was removed from the murderous wrath of his uncle. He grew among adoptive parents, Nanda and his wife Yashoda living retired in the Forest of Mahavena. A demon named Putna reached the home of Nanda with the appearance of a woman, she killed infants by coating her breasts with poison. Charmed by her beauty, Yashoda allowed Putna to nurse Krishna. Placed against the chest of the demon, Krishna began to suckle. Rather than swallowing the poison it’s the demon’s life that Krishna aspired. Yashoda found the child unharmed, he had killed Putna.
Throughout his childhood, Krishna was already reported by many miracles. The evil uncle, Kamsa continued to fight against Krishna. This one even managed to take over on Indra, whose anger against the inhabitants of a village was manifested by a terrible flood. To bring relief to residents, Krishna merely raised the whole town and the hill of Govardhana above his head.

The Mahabharata

The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit religious epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. The Mahabharata was one of the two most important factors that created the "Hindu" culture of India, and the Mahabharata and Ramayana still exert tremendous cultural influence throughout India and Southeast Asia. The epic is part of the Hindu "history", and forms an important part of Hindu mythology. With about one hundred thousand verses, long prose passages, and about 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is the longest epic poem in the world.Its discussion of human goals takes place in a long-standing tradition, attempting to explain the relationship of the individual to society and the world.

The Mahabharata tells the story of two sets of paternal first cousins - the five sons of the deceased king Pandu, the five Pandavas and the one hundred sons of blind King Dhritarashtra - who became bitter rivals, and opposed each other in war for possession of the ancestral Bharata kingdom with its capital in the "City of the Elephants," Hastinapura , on the Ganga river in north central India.
The historical importance of the Mahabharata is not the main reason to read the Mahabharata। Quite simply, the Mahabharata is a powerful and amazing text that inspires awe and wonder। It presents sweeping visions of the cosmos and humanity and intriguing and frightening glimpses of divinity in an ancient narrative that is accessible, interesting, and compelling for anyone willing to learn the basic themes of India's culture. The Mahabharata definitely is one of those creations of human language and spirit that has traveled far beyond the place of its original creation and will eventually take its rightful place on the highest shelf of world literature.

Hattoun and Valentine

Vishnu

Lord Vishnu preserves, protects powers to the world in a variety of forms, called avatars. In each of his avatars Lord Vishnu had took the shape of a human being, or an animal combined form and possessing some supernaturel powers. These avatars of Vishnu appear in the world to correct some great evil. The ten avatars of Vishnu are: Matsyavatara or fish, Koorma or tortoise, Varaaha or boar, Narasimha the man- lion, Vaamana the dwarf, Parasurama, Lord Rama, Balarama, Lord Krishna, and the yet to appear the Kalki avatar. All these avatars are earthly forms Lord Vishnu, who himself is eternal and unchangeable. He has many wives who are Lakshmi and Bhumi.