Wow. Super duper long time no see dear blog of mine. But I have a reason. Two words -Lubbock, Tx. So it’s been three weeks since I arrived and I honestly forgot about you and whenever I remember to post something…I fall asleep, since they didn’t really schedule in any sleep for us, but plenty of busy work type of things. Nonetheless alhamdulilah I’m thankful and …stuff.
Anyways the one thing I love most about being here for this program is meeting all these cool people I wouldn’t have otherwise met -most likely. There’s this one muslimah (sweet…I’m not totally lonely) and a brother; they’re both awesome. In general I feel pretty connected with most of them and I know I’ll miss them when it’s all over in three weeks.
I’ve popped, but I’ll explain what that means later -hahaha.
One thing that brings me down like no other here in this little city is the lack of iman on my part. Someone told me that it’s super easy for you to just drop it like its hot when it comes to your iman, not matter how much you think you can handle it -he was right. I thought it would be cool and yo, I even have another muslimah (we’ll call her missy) here and we’re going to chill and be together for everything so it’s cool right? Wrong. I haven’t seen or even heard of a masjid here and I think missy and I are are “cultural” as it gets with some scarf thing around our heads and weird long dresses, but whatever. I really miss Houston’s phenomenal muslim community and I’m definitely starving for some of Sheik Zubeir’s lectures. Dang it, I wish they were podcasted. Anyways…inshaAllah only three more weeks. Keep me in your duaas.
Other news include the graduation of my little sister from high school. She will be officially “legal” in a month or so and it kind of freaks me out because I never think about her age and when I realize she’s older I want her to stop growing up so fast. Atleast E (other little sister) has something like 13 years to go before she’s anywhere near college aged.
It’s been a month and some days since the hubmister left and it has gotten easier -well the busy schedule does wonders to help with that, but I still wish I could see him. We talk for about 10-20 min every night right around the time we’re both too exhausted to hold a real conversation so we listen to other breath or just fall asleep…although he’s fallen asleep on me more times than I have on him -butthead.
I miss my family and friends, but I really like the people I’ve meet here. It’s going to be interesting when it’s time to leave. I kind of wish we could all just stay together somehow.
Anyhow I’m pooped and hitting the sack. I’ll update whenever I can.
