Been a while...

It has been a while since I felt like I’m at home.. Since my arrival on the 19th of August until today things have being going so fast which left me under a lot of pressure thus not keeping up with the real feelings towards A2. I have not been under so much pressure in which I was left alone to settle things down and try to be very independent on others, but myself. I have felt driven away from my usual self esp. my prayers and closeness to God with all the busyness and thinking I’ve been through. That is how things us. ends me up: stop everything I’m working on until the major thing is settled down. This is a habit I have been trying to work on and haven't yet had a good control over, but shall inshala soon.

Experiences, experiences and experiences are the way out to independence and strength. The harsher the better and the easier things would be in the future cause we already have been through what we think is TOUGH (well it can be a soft experience to others). But no matter how small an experience is, it always teaches us something new that helps us through other difficulties. It is more like learning a new skill to be used later on, or maybe adapting your body defenses for future viruses that may attack. That is the importance of an experience. At time it can leave us in a disastorous unbearable situation where we would just want to get out and not even continue to go through anymore, but it teaches the hard way. We are surely used and would love to learn the easy laid out way, but those are not always the best tools to use at times where real life learning should be taken.

But as always, after every gloomy cloudy day, the sun rises to bring happiness and enlighten our lives. This day no matter how far we think is, it will always come and we shall enjoy our success and patience of what we have been through. We shall thank God for His blessings and unlimited support. We would thank Him for all the good close friends we have that have been so part of our lives and been there to support us when needed. Without any, we would end up crying all alone and feel isolated with no one to go back to and ask for support.

Now with the sun rising, I come to a new chapter with A2, a chapter inshala full of praying, fun, learning, and culture exchange. That all shall be the core of my stay here in which I shall be opening up to a world full of NEWS... as in new things.. I feel starting from today I am surely adapting well and am starting to simply LOVE being here and all the things around me.


Once I had a discussion with Collin about Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq. I really enjoyed Collin's company for I had the chance to talk about my opinion of Bush and choices he has made that didn't show a well planned strategy that he used. Even with the Hurricane, I was shocked to see those news showing poor people waiting for water and food. They looked more like those from Ethiopia for this is a poor country that doesn't have much to live on. But the STATES!! Come-on that I can't buy. Plus what shocked me was that usually the county would have a back up plan for everything, but with the hurricane and a 5 days notice before it taking place, the country didn't do much about it. NOTHIN!! Just maybe evacuating people from there homes, but nothing else. It took them about 5 days to send shipments with food and water. Now do you call that well planning? O_o

So with all what is going on, there is a lot more to talk about and discuss about a country so big and so metropolitan. And these are yet to come. It feels good to be part of such experience that would surely make me more aware of things, one of which is NEWS!! How to interpret them and understand what might be coming next, thus analyzing.

I'm smoothing down and things are getting better. This week I am going for a BBQ with the Arab group, then next week is CAMPING week...

Gimme an @dviCe..

Now that am here... am havin a tiny winy problem that I need your advice on esp those who are active and CRAZY:P

Imagine this...

I wake up in the morning all excited, "Time to wake up to a brand new day, brand new experience .. WOW time fill up the day with work and hangin out with @ers..laa dee da daa.. Oh today we have a farewell gathering for Amal and then we'll hang around FIGHTIN foolishly about some topics..etc..."

So this gets me up.. but that's not reality.. well that only works at 6pm when am back to my apartment. When I wake up early in the morning, these are my thoughts, "Oh didn't slp much, n have to go to work, well one day before the weekend is there."

It sounds very depressin doesn't it?? See I LOVE the work here and the company, the matter is with DRIVIN!! 2 hours every day with not much traffic n not in winter.. Noone to talk to in the car, n when there is accident, it takes me 2 hrs alone to get back home:( Ohhhhhh not to forget winter which may end me up DEAD taking about 4 hours total if not more:( now dats' sooooooooooo depressing... esp with fasting n loosin most of the time on driving...

So I try to cheer up.. which I always do when i'm on my way back home cause I know I am gonna rest for an hour then hang in A2 for a long time with friends and that EXCITES me...

Sooo... I know some have been thru at least an hour drivin going to work, uni or whatever.. but bear in mind mine is for a whole YEAR. So gimme some good advice that would make me cheer up and wake more energetic... ;)

MichiGaNdeRs!!

Hey AIESEC.................. Hey WHAT?

Here is the BIGGEST cuddlish adorable fan of MICHIGAN:) Mr Penny, I called him. Doesn't he look adorable? Well I thought of sharin with you this adorable doll of mine that a very special friend has sent it to me... Penny loves to be hugged and pampered;) so say something nice to him okk...

PS. Today is the 13 of Septemeber and its my sister Haifa's Birthday, so just wanted to tell him happy birthday sister.. and wish you all the best.. I really miss our late nite talks.. love you dear..

9/11

It has been 3 years since the devastating airplane crashes took place in NY and DC. I still remember when I was in DC early in the morning while in class, some Arab students came and talked about what's going on. I couldn't get much of what they said cause simply it didn't make much sense to me. So I went to the cafeteria where almost all of the students were, with their eyes glued to the TV. I saw two airplanes crash into a building, and I thought to myself, "What movie is that?!" I honestly thought it was all part of a movie to be shocked that it was REAL!! Not only did it take place in NY but also in DC, the pentagon, which is few blocks from my apartment.

At that day I saw HORROR, SORROW and AGONY for all did not make sense. Everyone woke up that day on those shocking news not to forget those who lived every minute and got an exclusive ticket to see the whole "movie". At that moment, everyone lost something even if they didn't have a friend, relative, collegue who has died in the accident. Everyone lost the most important concept in the world, SECURITY, which a human being cannot adapt living a life without it.

It is only during hardship, do we notice that there are no statue differences btw any of us. Whether we have different religions, come from different countries or ethnic groups, at the end we are simply HUMANS. We support each other in need and are not part of any plans that would harm people around us because we won't accept others harming our people.