some experiences

Hello Hello everyone! Ok so I am just going to take the time to talk about my weekend and anything else i feel inspired to say...I "googled" the word experience just so i could get a picture and the first thing that popped up was this comic from Calvin and Hobbes. I read it and thought it appropiate or at least somewhat insightful and felt the want to share it with you guys :D

Its true life is uncontrollable in the sense of how long we have but its all our experiences in life that amount to how we perceive it. Whether good or bad the experience is meant for something for us to take. Meh i dont know i liked this comic and feel it hits a pretty good point that its all how we look at things. (click the picture to view it in full size i coulndt make it big enough without half of it being cropped out of sight. sorry)

anyway....

The weekend...On Saturday My tunt nagwa and uncle amin came to pick me up and took me to their home where they spent a good portion of my time there feeding me. I have to say that the food is oh man so delicious! But its painful when i go there. Because they physically feed me until i cant eat anymore. I'm glad that i dont eat all the time because before it was by choice but now its i literally cant because based on how much they feed me my body is still digesting days after. So yeah i really really had a good time though. This family i was blessed being born into is so amazing. I never experienced such genuine love for others as much as in my family. Some of my uncle i had never met before but because i am part of their family they treat me as their own and then some. So its really something i hope to aspire to one day to have such a love for anyone who enters into my home or even enters into my field of vision to just be able to give them back a fraction of what i receive when i am at a family members home. So yeah Saturday was delicious.

Sunday as well was delicious because on sundays it is now tradition to go to my tunt nabila's and spend time with her and my little cousins hannah, fahrid (fah-reed), and sara. We have lunch and then go to church so sundays are always amazing. I dont know if i had previously stated this in another post but i love these kids. You learn a lot from how kids are because they are learning themselves and their perspectives and conception of things are striking to say the least. We usually spend the time with me teaching them to draw my stupid little cartoons (haha it looks like i finally found a use for my ability to draw mediocre looking animals, because the girls seem to love them) so yeah and we eat and then play some more. Yesterday i was helping the girls practice this loop trick they had learned from someone else. I will try to explain it best i can...so i stand there and one of them faces me i stretch out my arm and she holds onto them. Then she stands on my feet and then proceeds to climp up me as if i was a wall or something. She continues to climp till she is upside down then she pushes off of me with her feet and "loops". It was rough practicing for me because they continuously kicked me in the groin area and the my stomach which was really full of food from that day and the previous one. But it was important to them so i just put on a smile and endured the pain....haha they are so great. So yeah that was my sunday morning.

Sunday evening we normally go to church but this sunday there was a party at my uncle ataf's (umm i guess you would pronounce it like ah-taf...but not really) his son and my cousin Wasim (wa-seem) just graduated from the university and was getting a job so they were having a party and invited us over. Now i said earlier that my family is really special and show tremendous amounts of love to all. So i had never really met my uncle ataf or at least if i did i was really really small and dont remember it. But he comes to me and is just so kind and generous. Haha unfortunately part of his generosity included feeding me really delicious but heavy desserts like basboosa and konaffa....mmm so good but ugh my poor stomach haha. Anyway it was a wonderful time sitting and talking and just enjoying each other. So that was my sunday it was as well delicious and also just great.

A quick note about this morning (monday morning). So i woke up later than i usually do and unfortunately didnt have anything less than 50 pounds so a bus was out of the question because they dont usually have change for something that high so early in the morning. So i had to take a taxi. I cross the highway and find a taxi and when i get in....i was shocked...i was stunned....i had no idea what to say except for "ya rahbi" (rah-bee...that means "my God") i said that because it was one of the taxi drivers i had previously! Hahaha and out of all the taxi drivers i had before i got the one who called me "Hamtaro" and guess what? He remembered. I get in and he goes "HELEN YA HAMTARO IZZAYAK!?" haha i go through all the small talk and he does a few of the old songs he had sung before and when we got to my office i ask him "momkin andak fekka?" (that means do you have change?") and he goes just puts on a big smile and reaches into his pocket and gives me all that i need and i shake his hand and he goes off laughing and singing. Man that was just so cool to have in the morning. So i have no idea how the rest of my monday is going to go but nothing on earth can bring me down after that! haha ok thats all for now.



I hope Joe got to read this