SUNDAY SCHOOL

On Sunday, October 27, we went back to the old custom, which is tennis at young park. It was verry fun. I hate it only when daddy teaches me how to swing my arm properly. Sure, it gets the ball over, but so do my exotic ways of smashing the ball to the other side of the court. I hit really hard. Like really hard the ball flies ALMOST over the high walls of the whole entire court. I luffles hitting the ball and the racquet makes a lovely sound. I can't even describe it. So anyways when we were done we went to staples to look at laptops for kak Nora because apparently hers always overheats. Me and S 'accidentally' took pictures of ourselves in the laptops. Z took a daft video. It took some time to ...um, figure out how to delete them. ;D

When we got home we ate lunch and showered and then mom and dad slept. Me and S got ready to go. s just said she wanted to come pray. If she wanted to teach Sunday school she would. I was emailing Mar before we went, and she said she got in trouble with her mom and therefore she couldn't go. I was like geez. Strict mom.

Dad was sleeping on the couch and I was worried if he'd forgotten, so I went and woke him up. He got up and we went to the masjid and prayed and everything was weird. I was quite confused. Pretty soon I went to the classroom with Ra and stayed there to help make copies of stuff and junk like that. Then after the snack and break time, I was helping Wdd make copies of a book called Gateway to Arabic that I remember using when I was a tiny kid. While I was doing that, some random mandom and his nastiness came in. They muttered something behind me, and then the mandom said, "Excuse me, where is the Level 1 classroom?" I went and showed them and they checked on their daughter there. Awwwkwaaaard. Then I had nothing else to do, but then S came along and saw the mandom and was all grinny and scared and I don't know how to describe it. She told me that the older students were having lunch. After giving the copies the Wdd I went to go see the older students [80% of them are my little friends ;P].

"Hi N!" said Reem.
"Hi N," said M.
"Hi," I said.
Awkward silence.
Eyes on me for one second, then excitement flared up again.

I went to go sit where S was and I asked her if she ate anything. She said no. "Then eat!" I said. I sat down in the little desk-chair next to her and she stayed there. Reem came over and showed me a ruler of hers, which she called a 'movie' because it was one of those rulers that made a zippy sound if you scratch them. (I really don't know what it's called! XD) Then El2 gave me a Go-Gurt. I'd already had one in the K-G classroom so I handed it to S. Then El2 gave one to me again, and eyes were on us so I didn't want to explain that I'd had one already. I just took it. XD

I couldn't open my Go-Gurt so I told Dzk, who was standing beside me, to open it. He stared at me for one second and then grabbed it and went to the kitchen. Me and S watched him. He grabbed a knife. "Don't tell anyone!" he said loudly. Then he was back and he handed it over. There was a tiny slit in one side of the packet. In my head, I facepalmed. "Thanks," I said. And I tried eating it. It was a fail but I got some yogurt out of it. And they gave out GIANT apples. I ain't no kidding. I hurt my mouth at the first bite. Lolz.

So then more random stuffles happened and some kids left and there was a new sign-your-kid-out thing. Then M's mom came with Hib for the Asr prayer. She gave me Kak Nora's laptop. I said hi to Hib and I stood outside for a million years waiting with the signout sheet in my hand for people to come and take their children away. M waited with me. How kind.

Then it was asr time. We saw dad come with H and Z. After prayin' we all went outside to continue with the signouts. We were waiting at the women's door with Hib. M came. "Finally," said Hib. Then Dad with Whammo came. Dad asked about the laptop. "I got it," I said. "Okay, let's go," said Dad. Hib and M said bye to us. In the van we tried calling Kak Nora but there was some problem so we went to her place. We knocked a million times but she wasn't there so we waited in the van and then we went out and then I saw Kak Nora. We called her. "Kak Noraaaa"! I yelled. She looked. We ran up to her. I gave her to laptop bag. We did some explanations and then we went home.

N

El día de campo

Just felt like goin' Spanish today.

Yay! I have a story (actually TWO stories) to tell you! Today was the picnic at the park. Remember? And last night there was that dinner at the masjid. Here we go.

{FRIDAY NIGHT: DINNER AT MASJID} October 25 2013

Auntie Sal came by our house at 6pm with Kylie to bring us to the masjid. Kylie was all hungry and groany and Auntie Sal was angry at him for not eating at his dad's house. Kylie said the food at Auntie Sal's house was old and that there was like literally no food at his dad's house. Auntie Sal got angry and yelled, "My food is old?! Your head is old!" And then Kylie muttered something inaudible. (Later on S told me that he said, "That doesn't even make sense.")

We got there and we saw Hib, M, Nr, and Y. "Hey everybody," I said. "Hi," they said calmly. Except for Y. Because she's Nr's friend and she's like about almost 20 years old or something. I salamed Nr and Hib and high-fived M. So yeah. I sat in the musalla with Hib and then the people began praying. Mar and Ra arrived and Ra gave her phone to me to protect.

When it was all over. I was bombarded with Q's about Ummi. I said she was coming later. Then the funeral prayer began and after that we ate. We ate.............food. BAHAHA no actually I took some rice and some nasty kinda date ball and lots of salad because I'm a healthy vegetarian (not). And I drank an adorably tiny bottle of H2O.

Then Mom came and then it was Isha time. I sat with Hib again and Mom too. Hib took a picture of my lap with Nr's phone. Then I piggybacked the kids with Mar and my right muscle pounded with pain. Then we were in the library and some kid from the guy's side yelled at me to get his mom. So I did. Then we left for shopping and sent Kak Nora home. We bought four ice creams. I chose thin mints and coffee. H chose vanilla and something else that I will remember when I go look in the chest freezer like a sneak.

{SATURDAY AFTERNOON: PICNIC AT PARK} October 26 2013

Well basically, we weren't sure we were going. Dad and mom were both sleeping. Then I asked mom If we were going or not. She didn't know, because dad was sleeping and sick and tired. But she said, "Just get ready," so we did and we packed the van. I threw in my rollerblades. Then dad woke up and took us to the masjid for dhuhr. Then we went to Kak Nora's house to pick her up and then we went to the park. H was thinking we wouldn't get any food because it was almost 2:00. But we did. I got a burger bun and filled it with veggies and I let mom have the only existing meat patty. S said I was going vegetarian. I only ate like one bite of the burger and gave the rest to S. I was not hungry. So I went to go talk to Mar, who'd been waiting since 1:00 for me. Hib, Nr, Sr, and Y were there too. Nr and Y left early and who knows why. I raced on my rollerblades with Reem who had a scooter. I won. But it wasn't a fair race in my opinion. Reem had to push with her foot to go down the hill. All I had to do was roll merrily down. But whatever. It happened already.

Sr was surprised that I could rollerblade and she said I should teach her. She walked with me and Reem and Mar with her nephew. Then Sr left early. Reem left quite early too. So, I was alone with Mar, and that was not exactly a good thing because she always wants to play with babies and walk everywhere with them. It was hard to leave her, especially since I fail at being bossy and I always say yes. 

We sat at the top of the hill on the bench where the little kids were playing. I was forced to carry kids on my back and run down the hill. Not pleasant, especially since those kids were not the lightest beings in the world.

Ra bought a Hello Kitty ice cream from the ice cream truck and gave it to Mar. The way Mar reacted to it seemed like Ra was rarely nice to her. Mar said, "Oh. That's nice of her." And she looked very surprised. 

We walked up the hill to the other playground and saw S swinging. Well, not swinging, just sitting and looking at her phone while swaying slightly. We sat and talked to her and Mar's ice cream melted pretty quick.

Then we left for home and brought Kak Nora with us and she waited at the kitchen table for dad and Whammo to shower for soccer. I ate bananas and strawberries and ice cream. Yummeh. 

So basically that is the end of this post I need to carry on with my goal D:

N