Malvika's Ramblings

Independence-day, Kites, Pranav

Independence day. Time to fly a kite on Nani's terrace. Nope, never done it before. Novice. Debutante. So here is an account of kite flying from my thirteen year old cousin Pranav :

 About a week ago my cousin and I found a kite sitting on top of our roof. Neither of us had ever flown a kite before so we decided to try to get it up in the sky. It was a valiant effort but we failed miserably. Ever since then we've been determined to find someone to teach us how to fly a kite.
        Today our neighbor came over with her husband and two cousins and started flying kites on our roof. We thought it was amazing how they even got the kite to fly. They admitted that they weren't very good but to us they looked like stars. Our neighbor's husband was the most experienced kite flyer. Most of the time his kite would get cut but sometimes he cut other people's kites which I thought was very cool.
        My main problem in flying kites is getting it up in the air. I asked my neighbor's husband to get the kite up so that I could try flying it. He did that and soon I had the kite flying high. For about five minutes everything was going smoothly. I was just minding my own business flying very peacefully but then another kite came out of nowhere and cut mine. I was a bit disappointed but I still had a lot of fun.
         The funnest part of the whole experience was when we were flying our last kite and it got cut. Then another kite's string just fell into our hands and we started flying that. It wasn't long until that kite was cut though. Then we thanked our neihgbors and they left.
         All in all the evening was very fun and exciting. I hope to be able to fly a kite at a reasonable level after about a year. I didn't realise how fun kite flying is until this afternoon. If you've never tryed kite flying before, I think there's a good chance that you'll have fun learning.