Sat, Feb 18, 2012
Buster is ready to hit the beach in Chennai, India but his teacher, Mr. Ratburn, has other plans. He has assigned the class - including Buster - a social studies project to create a family tree that explains the person they are today. Mr. Ratburn puts Buster in touch with Nandan, a student at the Sishya School, who helps Buster construct his family tree. But Buster despairs, as his family tree looks more like a shrub compared to Nandan's! As Buster takes a walk along the beach for inspiration, he stumbles onto a soccer match where he meets Sruthi, a bharatanatyam dancer, who invites him to her dance class. Buster's self-exploration continues as he meets a young Vedic chanter named Aditya. In the end, Buster learns that the real meaning of family is more than his parents and grandparents.
Sat, Feb 25, 2012
After watching Daredevil Dario zip line though the Andes Mountains on TV, Buster is stoked to be heading to Chile. But when Muffy connects him to her friend Carolina, who wrote a book about saving dolphins from an oil spill in the Amazon, Buster's nervous that he's not daring enough to keep up with the locals. His nervousness increases throughout his own adventures - including a whirlwind journey in and around Santiago, a trip to a rodeo, followed by a horseback excursion to "cascadas", fossil hunting in the Andes Mountains and a kayaking trip to see penguins - he's just not sure he's lived up to Carolina's expectations. But when Carolina takes him to her favorite place of all - the poet Pablo Neruda's house - Buster realizes that the best adventure has been exploring what makes Chile unique and he writes his own Ode to Chile.