Days 15 - 19 (Completely Summarized)

Yes, it's me, that extremely lazy person who is supposed to be updating this blog, but seemingly has better things to do (read: am such a flake) that I didn't get around to it.

Anyway, for the sake of being true to my goal of blogging every day of Ramadan, I'm going to be summarizing the days that I missed.

Day 15 (Wednesday, August 25, 2010) -

Aikido. I nearly passed out - of course - after doing rolls. I'm glad that this week is going to be the last week of having to do that while fasting.

Day 16 (Thursday, August 26, 2010) -


Okay, today was really very nice. We went to volunteer at a grassroots women's shelter in the city. S had been doing a clothes drive for the ladies there. It was so heartbreaking to see their faces when we spread out the clothes for them - most of them secondhand. It was like we'd given them the best presents in the world. The house mother is an extremely sweet person, and I felt like Ebenezer Scrooge after his Christmas miracle when we left. I can't wait to go back and help again.

Day 17 (Friday, August 27, 2010) -


We spent most of today at home, until we went to Kam's house in the afternoon so my mom could talk a bit with her great-aunt, the one who's sewing all of us girls matching Eid dresses. She's really sweet. I got to play around with Kari (Kam's elder sister)'s Kindle; my mom really liked it too, so that means that I'm really going to get my Kindle for the holiday! :)

Day 18 (Saturday, August 28, 2010) -


Invited Emmy and her family over for dinner. I was actually supposed to have a big, belated post-graduation bash, but no one else could come. It was really nice though, and Emmy made me cry because she brought me all of these gifts, and SHE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO. We had a lovely time (ie. making fun of Joe Jonas, wondering why RobPatz has an affinity for facial hair, and reading quotes about writing). The downside of all of this family bonding was that Emmy's father is like mine (read: extremely long-winded) and they didn't end up leaving until twelve. We got to bed around one-ish, and then had to get back up for Suhur at four.

Good times.

Day 19 (Sunday, August 29, 2010) -


So I probably didn't mention it before, because I probably forgot, but every weekend of Ramadan the masjid was having religious classes for the girls and women - just because. Anyhoo, today was my day to give the lecture. I was freakishly nervous because I had to get all my notes together and it was a big responsibility and my parents really want me to get into public speaking so I couldn't blow it.

It went relatively well - considering only four girls showed up.

Afterwards, there was this huge bazaar in the parking lot, for last minute holiday shopping and stuff like that. Disappointingly, no one was doing henna. I brought a tube, to do on my own, but somehow Mom lost the bag with it - and all the fancy hair clips I bought - somewhere and no one bothered to bring it into Lost and Found.

Boo.

It was pretty nice, though. I got this Native American looking bag. If I can get a nice picture of it, I'll post it later.