Dear class,
Mr. Aqeel, a Pakistani living in Freiburg, will visit our class on Monday so we will cancel the test for the day.
See you soon,
Ms Sauer

Chapter 20 (p.156-163)

summary:

mum, dad, Uncle Piara, Harry and Baljit leave for Jullundur
Manny and Inderjit are alone at home → they can do what they want
they drink beer, smoke cigarettes
* Manny loves the way Adumpur sounds at night
Manny tells Inderjit about England (bus rides, city life)
Inderjit fells asleep

Next day:
Manny notices that Harry has taken his suitcase with him
trip to Anandpu (famous for gurudwaras) starts at 10.00 am in a mini-van (smells musty)
* Manny hopes, that Inderjit is able to show him what makes India special

characters in the van:
- driver
- Inderjit and Jasbir
- Uncle Gurvinder and his wife
- Harpal (Inderjit's oldest brother)
- Rana, his wife Sukbir and their two kids, Ranjit and Harjit
- Manny

* Manny feels strange when they pass a valley that is protected against inundations by a dam
* when they ascend the mountain, Manny becomes nervous because of the height
they explore the beautiful countryside of Anandpur
- amazing temples and gurudwaras
Manny takes a lot of pictures
At the end of the trip Manny is exhausted
Manny is frightened when he hears that they will travel back in the darkness

vocabulary:
smugly - eingebildet
firefly - Glühwürmchen
sparrow - Spatz
cockroach - Küchenschabe

by Ines

Chapter 22

summary:

This chapter ist about Manjit's youngest uncle "Jag". Jag is called the black sheep, because he is different to the rest of the family - like Manjit.
He went away from home and travelled around the world, but nobody knows, what he really is working for. Besides Jag is well educated and he speaks English without an accent.
When his father died, Jag didn't come to visit him.
Jag wants to defend Manjit. The family wants to force Manjit to become a real Punjabi. But Jag has a different opinion to the Indina's tradition. He is not as proud as the other Indians and he doesn't like to be treated respectfully because of his age.

characters:

• Jag
• Inderjit
• Uncle Piara
• Jasbir
• old man
• Ranjit
• Manjit (Manny)

vocabularies:

to intrigue: faszinieren, neugierig machen

hardly ever: fast nie; (wohl) kaum

a bloke: ein Kerl

a poof: ein Schwuler

to be gay: schwul sein

to outweigh: überwiegen

to puke: kotzen, auskotzen
the puke: die Kotze

*a disgrace: Schande

*regardless of: ohne Rücksicht auf


by Larissa

Chapter 19

-Manjit, Ranjit, Jas and Gurpal did last-minute shopping, because Ranjit, Jas and Gurpal went home earlier

-last day was bad for Manjit, because he felt homesick and wanted to do things like in Leicester

- he wanted his old life back

-after six weeks: he had enough of all the dust, the heat and the insects

-he spent the days with his cousins Inderjit and Jasbir

-his dad laughed loud about Manjit´s wish to go home-because he thought, that India is Manjit´s real home

-in the 9th week: a letter from the agent told that their passports and tickets were stolen: they were stuck there

-Manjit was depressed

-his father thought that it was God´s will

-discuss of Manjit and Harry who was base

-Inderjit told Manjit how he was bullied from is older brothers with violence

-Inderjit stole a whole box of condoms from Lally and poked little holes through the foil because of revenge

Persons:

Manjit, Ranjit, Jas, Gurpal, Inderjit, jasbit, Uncle Piara, Harry, dad

Vocabs:

*(to) envy s.o.- jmd. beneiden

well Brunnen

(to) be stuck festsitzen

(to) cheer aufmuntern

*patient- geduldig

*alleyway- Gässchen


by Katrin

Chapter 17

In this chapter Manny arrives at the village, where his uncle and hin cousins live. When he drive by taxi through this village he feels very sad, and he describes how the village looks like. He has imagined the village in an other way. In this chapter he also gets know his uncle, Piara, and his cousins Inderjit and Jasbir.

Persons:
Manny,
Uncle Piara,
Jasbir,
Inderjit,
Harry,
Jas.

Vocabs:
impatient - ungeduldig

to buzz- surren

*fade- abklingen, hier: untergehen

*dusk- Abenddämmerung (from..... 'til dawn)

*courtyard- Hof, Innenhof

puny-kümmerlich, mickrig

onion - Zwiebel

cardamom - der Kardamom

balti - auf eine bestimmte pakistanische Küche spezialisiertes Restaurant

butchering- Fleischer, Fleischerei...

by F.R.

Chapter '18

-Manny introduces his family
-chills out with his cousins and they're doing drugs
-gets to know 'dark' side of India

vocab.:

*cubicle - Kabine
irrigation - Bewässerung
tube wells - Rohrbrunnen
scrape - kratzen
roti - indisches Fladenbrot
spliff - Cannabiszigarette (joint)

by Mr. Schindler

Chapter5

In chapter 5 Manjits 9th school year begins.

Manjit finds out more details about Lisa, but they hadn’t really spoke to each other, just a few times in the holidays.

He is very interested in her, but too shy to ask her for a date.

He thinks that being turned down by her after asking her for a date would be really embarrassing.

But on the other hand, if she agrees and his family finds out about a girl, he would get into trouble.

Ady says that Manjit should speak to the girl because he thinks that she likes him a lot.

Also in chapter 5 the two friends visit Adys girlfriend Sarah and spend a nice time in her home.

On this day Manjit comes home very late and get trouble with his parents and also with his brother Harry.

He tries to destroy one of Manjits cassettes and they nearly start to fight, but than Ranjit comes and calms the situation.

by maRinschö

a swot	Streber
suntan	die Sonnenbräune
(*)aloof	distanziert, unnahbar
*crucial	entscheidend, ausschlaggebend
*to mimic	imitieren
*floorboard	Diele, Bodenbrett
haywire	Drunter und drüber gehen
*drag	schleppen