.:Friday, February 04, 2005:.
Umm Al-Qura
I've been thinking really really seriously about applying once I finish highschool. I already got my mom to agree to let me go, and I don’t think baba would object to much. I asked a sis who visited the uni over the summer about the whole mahram issue and she told me they told her as long as a mahram brings you to Makkah and takes you back home in the summer he doesn’t have to be with you throughout the school year. If that’s how it is then inshaAllah I shouldn’t have a problem with it.
I asked someone how much arabi you need to know to skip the first two years and they told me that you needed to speak it and to know/understand Ibn 'Aqeels sharh? (not that I know what that is..) in short you need to know grammar. InshaAllah Imma work on my grammar, but I still think it might be beneficial to take even the first two years. Wallahu 'aalam.
A couple other sisters said they would apply with me (UMM QAYLAH YOU HAVE TO CONVINCE YOUR PARENTS :( ) and we'd go together etc. InshaAllah if that happens it would be really really nice. lol, we were talking about it today and the first thing we started asking was "do they have net there" lol.. one of us so far has offered to bring a laptop with her, and the rest of us would try to as well I'm sure. But can you imagine our phone bill :P.
Even with how pumped up I am about the idea right now, I'm still a bit scared. I know that if it does happen it wont be easy. I've always been so close to my family, never really been apart from me, it'll be a new experience. I think it would take a lot of self discipline and a lot of getting used to..
Another thing we just realized that if we want to get our applications reviewed for next year we have to submit them before june :S. anyways I have to go get ready for salah and help get dinner ready.. I'll write more on the topic later inshaAllah.
chotu-meyeh
@ 2/04/2005 05:21:00 PM
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