“My dad works in I.T., so he's always on the computer,” and “my mom works as a professor at a university here.”
She said school “starts around 9:00 a.m., but we have to be there at 8:30.” School ends at 3:30 p.m. and she gets home around 4:00 p.m.
She takes the school bus, and “[it] comes to pick you up at the apartment.” Going alone depends on distance, so “people who live close to school usually go by themselves.”
Lunch depends on whether students bring food or buy it. If they bring lunch, they can eat “in our classrooms or in the hallways with our friends.” If they buy lunch at school, there are two canteens, one with lighter snacks and one with more filling meals. “The basement canteen is actually nutritious [with foods like] chapati and rice and all that.” Her favorite school lunch is “paneer noodles with cauliflower on the side.”
Her school teaches and functions in English, but day-to-day speech mixes English with Tamil. “Everyone speaks in Tamil anyways, so I alternate between English and Tamil.” She said that "hello" in Tamil is vanakkam.
