I cant wait for Friday, its gonna be the end of the semester and the day I hand in all my work in. All this week, Ive been doing noting but reading, but today I thought I'd stay home all alone, and have the house to myself, when just as I was about to turn the sound my music up (btw I listen to this cool New York based online station called
www.krock2.com ), some woman with her child decided to visit us. And since my mother wasn't home, I thought she'd just go, but NO, she wanted to stay and chat with me, and I didn't even know her. But anyway she stayed till about 1, and came around 9am.
Anyways I managed to finish the last of my coursework, when my mother came to my room and said that some Somali man and a Sheik are gonna come to the house latter on, and that he asked her if he could marry one of us. I just started laughing, coz I never thought something like that would happen, and my mother said yes to him. So all she wanted was for me to come down and say Hi, but when he did come I decided to take a shower, I mean I find it silly parading around for some guy, even if you just saying Hi, he will be 'assessing' if you'd do as a wife.
Anyway when he left, He asked my mother about me, walahi this is funny coz I've never seen him ever, and he wants to get married. I know this is the halal way, but still I think If I'd get married it will be some guy that i got to know first, not just someone looking for a wife. And anyways I'd like to graduate first and at least earn my own money, travel and buy my own house before getting married.
I've been trying to look for jobs abroad like in USA or New Zealand or the Caribbean. I haven't told my mother yet, but I bet shes gonna freak out if she finds out Im planning on going away for a year after Uni. She thinks because Im female and black n Muslim, that something 'bad' would happen to me, but dont millions of single girls travel alone every year, and its not like im going to some remote country, it would be to learn more, see different people and also get experience so I could get a really good job latter on. Im soo bored of being in London now, I find it tiring and very dull, I think London is nice to get an education but not to live if you like peaceful surroundings. Inshaallah hopefully things go well for me and I get that job abroad, it would be nice also living alone and growing as a person, because now I still feel like a child coz Im still living at home. I really cant wait, I think New Zealand or Trinidad would be nice....
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I find wife shopping too hilarious. What is wrong with some guys that they can't talk to a girl, even in a grocery store and get to know them? What's with the sheikh too? Shouldn't they come into the picture AFTER the approval and fatiha exchanges. LOL. I would get a sudden case of the runs if some freak showed up with a sheikh. I think I did once.
For the travels, do it because life is too short and there is so much to see. I wouldn't exchange the experiences I had with anything else. There will be a lifetime to spend with a big forehead Somali dude and bring forth wrinkled little monsters that look like him. Run, run as fast as you can when you get the diploma.
Loool Aya.. don't freak the poor girl out!
My brother got married through an arranged married. He was in North America and his wife was in Somalia. At the time I found it a bit weird, now that they've been married for a while .. I suppose arranged marriages do work out for some people. I asked my mother if she was going to arrange my marriage as well....lol here I was thinking I was next on the chopping block when she screamed out .. "No...my daughters are not for sale"
I think I would have came down the stairs limping, and drooling .. Its sorta mind boggling to hear about the door to door marriage proposals ...
As far as travelling goes. Go for it. Why the hell not... thats the first thing I did after I graduated...
LOL, Aya. the way you phrased that has just scary, and yeah I know the shiekh is meant to come latter, but I guess hes in hurry to get married or something.
Nonchalente- Thats really good the arranged marriage worked out for your brother, but this guy here is like really in a totally different world to me, so it would def not work.
Inhshaallah,if everything goes well, I'll be travelling by Sept, cant wait!
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