Turkey lifts hijab ban at schools

Alhamdulillah... check out the article here

Boarding

I went boarding today :) left my place about 1ish all ready and sorted. Got new gloves (well bought them a few years ago just forgot about em) so no more brushin snow of wooley mittens, got cup of tea to warm me a little before starting, got my camera. Drove over to the slopes using a different route cause I was coming from a different direction, nearly there then my tyres go over the snow in the wrong way. Imagine this... there are 2 lines in the road that all the other cars have removed the snow with, so Im following that but then it seems to move to one side so i try to keep straight then I totally feel my tyres skidding underneath me, winter tyres my bottom!!! But i prayed and said no, on no, please no.. for a very long time and alhamdulillah Im back on track. Anyways I get to the slope, sort myself out while waiting for my friend... Im freezing my bum off at this point cause Im not moving (-15 and thats without the wind chill) then she arrives, we get our lift passes and head over to the slopes. Walk up 'my slope' as my friend has named it :P as in ammenas slope :D get to the very top and realise its really icey, to the point that im trying to stand and my board is sliding away from me. So we move to the lower level and get on track.... I get up and start moving my way down the slope, I feel more in control but Im still having issues with why things do what they do. Like I know what I want to do, I want to move in the opposite direction, so I try to shift my weight to the other leg but the board still travels that direction towards the trees, then I panic and just fall to my bum. Then at other times, Im totally not thinking and try to shimmy over to the other direction and I go, but it happens so quickly I dont know how I did it. Anyways I got to the bottom probably with falling twice, although it wasnt really falling it was more not being able to do what I wanted to do so I purposely fell. I was pretty impressed and my friend even said she wasnt expecting that heehee which was nice to hear. Then Im taking the board off my feet, as in getting out of the bindings and I hear a noise, I look down to see this black strap and to my horror I realise the binding that keeps my left toes in place has snapped off. We were both totally gutted, cut long story short.... my friend went to the other slopes while I went off to rent a board, wasnt ideal but we had only been there for like 30mins if that. So I walk to the shack and it says in big letters, we dont take debit cards as deposit, what do I have?! My debit card :( so Im off to wait for my friend. When she arrives she says, its probably a good idea the wind was really picking up and she said she found it hard to stand on the other slopes cause the wind was blowing from behind her and pushing. I was just soo frustrated though :( especially after such a good start and now with me going to chicago next weekend I will have to wait 2 weeks to be able to go :( Insha'allah it will work out though.

My first arabic reading class

It was supposed to be today... Kate, remember what we were talking about with my procrastination? well my computer shut itself off about 5 mins before my class was due to start and I didnt realise, to get it up at running at 1232 when my lesson was at 1230... its 1250 now and no sign of the ppl on skype.... I dont think its just to do with my computer shutting off because I see no 'add member' dialog box... hmm.... Allahu alim :)

Ooooh

so today we were talking about meat and some guy i work with mentioned that you can buy halal pork, I wasnt totally listening to him but I caught the jist.. I was like.... what did you say?? Subhanallah.. I knew he was joking but what is the point of a joke if it isnt funny and its totally false?? This guys surname is Islam, I cant remember where hes from, but he asks me for his wife when Eid was and proceeds to tell people he doesnt really believe in one religion... Allahu alim.

Update on arabic reading

Salam everyone,

so some of you may remember that I signed up for a weeks trial at the RIS convention for learning to read the quran, eventually they tracked me down :) alhamdulillah and insha'allah I start on friday. Im a little nervous, its through skype like with the classes through umm hibaat so at least this will start me off. I will do the weeks trial on friday, monday and wednesday, its usually over one week but because I go to CHICAGO next friday I wont be here for it so they allowed me to start this friday 12.30 - 1pm I was surprised that its only 30 mins... how can I decide if its beneficial after only 90mins of lessons. Allahu alim. We will see and I will let you all know, if youre in Canada or USA feel free to check out the link by clicking on the heading title.

Im a muslim!!