After telling you yesterday about our touristic experiences on Gran Canaria and Tenerife, I today want to just write about our little Apra and all the fun she is having on this trip!
We knew that she would love one thing: the beach. It is the biggest sandbox you can get and you even have water to double the fun! As expected, the moment when we reach the beach, what we try to do every day, she sits down in the sand and starts playing! She digs holes to put her feet in, buries the water bottle to keep it cool, cooks dishes out of sand and laughs while putting sand on our clothes, legs or towels! When I do exercises in the sand for my knee, she joins me and even goes for a walk in the sand together with me.
Together with Ramona, she has also been in the water. She is obviously a bit scared of the high waves but when they go in slowly, she enjoys the thrill – when will the wave come so high that I get wet on my face? She squeaks and screams of delight when it does!
More than in the ocean, she enjoyed in the small pool in Tenerife, without waves and at just the right height for her. She really explored the water there – and even came into the big pool with me to swim on my back!
With all these activities outside in the sun, Apra got tanned. Very much. Yesterday we laughed while comparing: her mother's skin, the brightest of all of us, only got a tiny bit darker, in my and Yashendu's face you can see a difference but when you look at Apra, her arms and legs are now even darker than ours!
The beach is not the only thing Apra enjoyed here though! From the flight to the ship, from meeting our friend Betty again to playing with her dog, from taking part in the dance parties to watching whale and dolphin shows in a huge zoo – Apra enjoyed every activity to the fullest!
She also knows that we are on Gran Canaria now and that it is different than India and Germany. Obviously, she noticed that the language is different, too! While she tried talking to Betty in German in the beginning, she soon noticed that she didn't understand her. Clever as she is, she started asking us to translate saying 'Tell Betty that I am wearing my new dress!' and similar requests. Then however, she had some time playing alone with her, too, and began testing with some English words, quickly understanding and repeating what Betty asks or tells. Anyway, she always listens to English, so that is nothing new!
She did notice however that Spanish is again different! When some of Betty's friends had dinner with us, Apra heard that they talked differently than anything she was used to – and so she just started talking anything, a random combination of letters. Maybe she thought this was how to speak in another language? We all laughed a lot! By now she has picked up some words though: hola, vale, venga and gracias – and yesterday told me in a mixture of Hindi and German: 'I also speak Spanish!'
It doesn't matter how much we are enjoying, seeing Apra having fun makes our joy a thousand times more – and that's why it is so beautiful to travel with her and showing her the world!
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