.:Tuesday, March 01, 2005:.
This weeks trip :P
lol it seems like every other entry I post up is about my weekend or going to Corvallis or something. Its almost as if this is a journal of all my trips down :P. ahh oh well heres another "journal" entry then, I'll try to post some other stuff maybe I dunnu. I guess the reason so much is about my trips down is because I look forward to them so much. When I leave Corvallis its like I'm leaving a part of me behind, the whole way back here it doesn’t feel right but alhamdulilah 'ala kulli haal.
My dad told us "The reason I'm going to Corvallis is so I can pray jumu'a so I don’t want to be late for it, I want everything in the car from the night before." so we all packed and had everything ready at night, and still didn’t end up leaving till around 7:30 in the morning lol. We got to Corvallis pretty early though alhamdulilah. My dad had a stop to make, and then my sister asked him if she could spend the day at her friends house so he dropped her off there and we got to the masjid around 11:45 or so.
When we got there I figured there was still 45mins till the khutbah so I could get a small nap before 'amu Awad showed up, but things didn’t go as planned. A few minutes later a student from OSU showed up for her worlds religion class or something. My mom was in the musalah so I had to sit with her. A little later another girl shows up and then another and another, by the time salaah started there were six girls me, my mom and khala Summayah. Both my mom and khala were in the musalah and since I couldn’t pray I was the only one outside with them :S. It was kinda weird, ya'ani we are used to students coming from osu etc but I had never been alone with them having to explain everything etc. Khala Ghada always talked to them or khala Dalia or my mom or just about anyone other than me!! Alhamdulilah it went ok though (or at least I hope so). There was one girl that was really really interested in Islam more than the rest. She stayed until after salaah and then said she was going to try to come back later on at the dars time and asked me for my email.
After salaah finished I found a book and kept reading until almost 4 or so. Mama wanted me to get her something from the store and I was in the mood to treat myself out to candy :P so I walked to freddies. There is a gate in the masjid fence right by the women's entrance that takes you straight to kings and then you cross the street and your at the store so it’s a pretty easy walk. The only thing I hate about it is having to cross kings couse its probably one of the busiest streets in Corvallis. Alhamdulilah that was nice. I got a whole bunch of candy, and headed back :P. If there is one thing that I'm weak in its sweets, I don’t eat a lot but when it comes to sweets :D call me, ummqoossy and tassnyms mom and you wont find any left :P.
A little after I got back to the masjid another girl from the worlds religion class came, and then my sister and friend and everyone else started showing up. Alhamdulilah had a good time at the dars. Chilled out with some people, got yelled at for talking to Umm Yusif during the dars :P etc.
Next day we were supposed to go to khala UmmAbdurRahmans for lunchish/dinnerish but my mom was supposed to make waraaq 'anib and Umm Qoossy wanted us to go over for a bit as well. So we walked 20 blocks or so and I had to carry the heaviest backpack ever lol.. along with some things we needed it had the waraq 'anib jar, pot, and mix so mama could roll them while we were at Umm Abdul Qudoos's. Alhamdulilah it was worth it though. Had a great time at her place. Me and her pretty much just sat in her room online eating candy and drinking juice :P. I fixed her webcam for her so she gave me my digital camera back :D
After that we went to khala Umm Abdur-Rahman's house and stayed there until just about midnight. It was pretty nice alhamdulilah. Spent a lot of time reading though, which was also nice.Abdur-Rahman is such a cutey MashaAllah. I really love that kid like so much. But no one is like AbdulQudoos, that kid is MY baby. Every time I see him, even if it’s a month since the last time, he come running to me.. he wont eat from anyone elses plate lol man hes so adorable I miss him so much :(. I got some pics maybe I'll post one up.. or just ask me and I'll show u inshaAllah.
Anyways Sunday morning we went to khala Aishas and had breakfast there, since all the men were at Amu Kais's. Khala Umm Mish'al was making a biiiig 'azeema for all the women at her house later that day at like 4 so we stayed with khala Aisha until almost that time. After eating and stuff we started on making makloobah couse khala Umm Mish'al had asked her to make it for her. After dhuhr khala Faykah called and asked her if she wanted to go for a walk, and she said ya and if she could bring Tassnym but she said that she had to much homework and if she came now she couldn’t go to the 'azeemah later.
We went walking at this place close to khala Aisha's and our old house that they always go to (other than cheldlin track).. the john frazier wetlands or something. Its pretty MashaAllah. I had known from the day before that we were going to go walking so I was like ok ill wear shalwar kamees so it'll be easier and usually it would be but for some reason the abayah I was wearing with the shalwar made it harder than if I had worn skirt or thoub. Anyways… each round is almost a mile and me, khala 'Aisha and my sister did 6 laps my mom and khala Faykah did 5. We were going at a faster pace than them so we ended up getting to go a whole extra lap. Usually when we go to the wetlands me and Tassnym would be in the very back barely keeping up couse we would be yapping away but this time since she wasn’t I was going fast.
After them laps khala Faykah was like we better get going couse there was like an hour and half till we had to be at khala Umm Mish'als so we left. Back at khala Aishas we finished up the makloobah and then my baba came picked us up and took us to khala Umm Mish'als like half hour early. lol when we first got there I started playing tennis with her kids in the living room :S my mom was like "omggg 'ayb 'alaiki your older than that" bess it was fun :D.
Alhamdulilah the time I had at Khala Umm Mish'als was probably the best of the whole trip. Just getting to see EVERYONE and chilling out and stuff. We ended up leaving like wayyy early couse my dad didn’t want to go back to late which really sucked, I would have given up all the other things we did this weekend to just have stayed longer but alhamdulilah.
On the way back we were all kinda mad at my dad, couse when he went ALONE a couple weeks ago he didn’t leave till 9 but this time he made us leave at like 6 and we were with him :(. Non of us really talked all the way to Portland which is an hour and some drive lol. In Portland he stopped at the masjid to pray and stuff. While we were sitting in the car we saw 'amu Abu Owais with Ahmed going into the masjid and we were like mannnnn baba's gonna be in there forever. I wanted to open the door and call Ahmed but then I was like nah I better not lol. (BTW HES 7).. anyways like we expected baba took forever… he came back to the car and was like "sorry after 'isha shaykh Mohammad Abdur-Rahman saw me and started talking and then Abu Owais saw me and wouldn’t leave me. He kept going "what you guys mad at us or something?? You pass by Portland every other week on your way down to corvallis but you never stop.. etc" lol I was like ya what do u expect from Amu Abu Owais.. good thing Amu Abu Omar didn’t see you too :P
After we left the masjid, my dad goes "Maryam" and I go like ya?
Him: some girl named "Fatima" (i.e. Umm Qaylah but I don’t wanna put her real name) called asking for you
Me: oh ok
Him: you know who that is?
Me: ya
Him: who?
Me: Remember the Islamic confrenc/camp I went to in Portland a couple years ago?
Him: ya
Me: And the one before that?
Him: uha
Me: ya, there was this girl named "Fatima" there and me and her got really really close.. she lived in Portland (not a lie at all.. actually it’s the total truth. But I was referring to another girl)
Him: uha
Me: anyways "Fatima" recently moved in DC.. and Amu Salim has a sister there (also not a lie since im talking about the other one now :P)
Him: Salim has a sister?
Me: Ya we're really good friends
Him: I didn’t know that…
Him: so this is Salims sister?
Me: No, she just knows her
Him: How did she get my cell
Me: I think I called it from her before
Him: hmm ok
LOL the funniest thing of this is I found out later on that when UmmQaylah called my dad asked her "who are you" and she told him and then asked her "oh your from Portland?" and she made it look like she was.. I had NO IDEA about this, but I somehow used the same thing.. which is good couse if I didn’t he woulda been like hmmmmmm.
Now I did something else.. My dads cell company was charging him extra for long distance calls for some reason this month, and I called yasi like 4247842 times from his cell sooo it showing on the bill (I checked it online) and its costing like $28.. Alhamdulilah I called the company this morning and got the charges taken off BUT it wont show on the bill when he gets it that the charges are off.. so I somehow have to hide that bill untill next month so he dont find out :/.. makd duaa lol..
Anyways we got home around 11 or so.. and I was tired went straight to bed.
chotu-meyeh
@ 3/01/2005 02:57:00 PM
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