| Hola world! okay I don't know why this song has been on repeat for like the last hour but I like it, Such Great Heights by Postal Service. :) I also have no clue why at 1:21 in the a.m. I feel like I need to write everything down before I forget my weekend.... and that would just be bad. Okay so this weekend I had the opporutinity to take myself along with my big brother down to a little hippie town we like to call Austin. We left on saturday at like 1 ish and got there at 5ish. From there I got to go to Mustis place and meet Musti, and Mariam and see gulam, and of course Zahra ...my zahra :) and then we went to Adnans crib... very nice man, I like it alot, hes big ballar man now with the job and the nice apt :), there we played Xbox and I totally kicked Gulam's butt in some fighting game, and then we played spoons and took pictures and talked... there was this one guy that kept trying to call Musti talking about signing a petition for this school, and they were like cussing each other out... it was very entertaining to listen to, kinda mean but dang this guy wouldn't stop calling him. Anyways..... we waited and waited and waited lol until we went to this place called Al Borz for Abbas's birthday shin dig. There were like 20 + people there and we all just ate and chilled and talked, and freakin Abbas is crazy and paid for the whole thing... very sweet, but its his birthday we should be taking him out not the other way around. We tried to reverse this but the damage had already been done. We went from the resturant to tahaas place where the cake smashing took place, and qusai tried to break an egg on Abbas's head lol didn't get to though... we all then just sat and talked about everything from stalkers to politics. Qusai got all werid later that nite and thought it would be a brillant idea to read out peoples quotes on their face books... and well he got to mine and read one out loud that I don't know if I can truthfully say i've followed...but at that moment... I knew I wanted to make sure I started believing in this again... he said and I quote "I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its comming with all my heart:".... i'm tryin... We stayed there until like 4:30, then stayed the night at Nisreens very cute place I liked it. The next day we got up, Nisreen made us choclate chip pancakes :) and then we went canoing at four ish with everyone inlcuding Tania and Abuzar. It was me, zahra and abbas in one of the canoes... we did everything from run into like every tree, other canoes, and ducks, a person almost, and on yea we flipped over too... :) but after all that we finally got the hang of it and I was a damm good steerer lol, we not only caught up to the other 6 canoes from our group but also made it back faster than the rest... cause we have mad power, muscle power baby... it was probably mostly abbas but still, its all good. We then went back to mustis to watch Goodnight and Goodluck, but before that I went to dinner with Tania and Abuzar and this mexican place, it was really good we ate alot of chips :) . Anywho everyone was totally falling asleep through the frist part of the movie just to wake up and be totally into it in the middle and think it was an awsome movie by the end. We then went back to nisreens, where me, farida, and nisreen talked until like 5ish... then the next day we all went out for lunch to Magnolias... Alefiyah came to this so that made me happy :) We had a good time eating and talking with everyone and then it was time to leave...  ... we caught like three hours of traffic and although we left at 5, I didn't get back into my dorm until 11 pm. Thats what we get for leaving late on labor day rite? Okay so that was the detailed what happened... but really what did happen? I had a blast thats what, I got to meet cool new people, hang out with old friends, and get to know some i barely made alot better. The feel of austin is just soo different than that of dallas and SMU. Everyone in austin is just so layed back and chill...and has a very open view of things... or so its the feeling I get. I got alot of "why don't you transfer" or come down here more often... or adnan insisting that I am coming down next weekend too lol.. but these guys have so much fun every weekend, and have this foundation of friendship that is really important to have to have a good college experience. I have to admit one of the reason I went down there was to really soul search and kinda find out how it woulda been if I had gone to school down there like I orgnially had planned to. It would have been mad different than now, I would have a really good time, I know that, and I know I woulda made alot of close and cool friends... and had the opportunitiy to do so many things with them...experience soo much... see so much............ but if that means that I had to negate everything that I have gained by being at SMU ... I don't think I could do it. If I had gone to UT... I would have never met Dana ( my crazy but wonderful roomate and one of my best friends)... I wouldn't have met Alex or Robert (again best and close friend)... all my engineering buds, all my friends I made by being invloved... hell I probably wouldnt have had the opporutnity to be in all the leadership positions that I was at SMU... things that make me who I am now... so do I regret not going... no, because I don't regret the person I am today... and SMU ... the people here, the experiences here made me who I am. If I had gone, there is no way I would have been close to Khadjia Halai or maybe not even that close to Samina you know... and sorry but I wouldn't trade all that ... :) I happy with my choices... but I am hella glad I had a chance to go down.... and experience a little bit of what austin life is like... and don't worry people ... I'll be back :) ... hopefully sooner than later. and now that I have totally procrastinated writing my lab report... back to it I must go Much love everyone :).... austin rocks :) |
