Eid

عيد و سعيد طلعوا عالجبل.. نزل سعيد. منو ظل؟

Eid has ended and I'm back to studying more determined and fully charged than before.
This post is to record the events of this Eid..

Aya stayed at our house for the two days before Eid because mom didn't have much work and found it the best time to have her around. She's growing intelligent and because she always watches Fatafeet (the Arabic Cooking Channel, her absolute favorite beside Toyoor Al-Janna) she's grown scarily aware of many things regarding food. There's no doubt she knows more than me about cooking :)

Seeing how grown up she's become I thought it would be a good time to present her with the Eid and Saied joke (the Moslawi version of Pete and Repeat) but she didn't like it at all and thought very scornfully of me afterwards as if I've played a dirty trick on her!!
Her reunion with Ayman and Anas two days later was so emotional one would think she was suffering at our house!

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Eid was preceded with much preparations, the most important of which was getting my room organized.
The first, second and third year lecture notes were all scattered in different parts of the bookcase, and the books were in no particular place. It was a tiring job considering the amount of printed chapters, textbooks, borrowed books, lecture notes and previous years' exam questions that I have. The job was completed successfully and now I have a bookcase to be proud of!

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The first day of Eid was spent as usual, a gathering in one of my uncles' house where each family brings a meal.. and then we made visits to some of dad's cousins' houses.. The second and third days we had gatherings for lunch and took some great group photos which I sent day by day to our relatives abroad.
The fourth day we went to a wedding (well, it was a nishan but I'm not ready to explain what it is so let's just assume it's a wedding ;) ) and received few visitors afterwards.


The Eid was, overall, very good, and I didn't let myself get bored.. the torture of conscience was present, nevertheless, since I didn't study a word since Tuesday. But that was not very bad since I got my share of comfort, and started studying well at about 9PM on the last day of Eid.

!نزل سعيد.. و لحقوا عيد.. و ما ظل غير الدوام

I slept early yesterday so as to start studying early today, but ended up sleeping 12 hours :D

I'm going back to college tomorrow, and following mom's instructions, I'll be completely ignoring the fierce fights of the last day of college and more than ready to study any lectures we have missed.. I'm not sure what to wish for but I won't be saying any I-told-you-so-s, and will keep them for later use, if needed.