So, now that you know my buddies, let me tell u about a thursday that changed my life...
it all started when we entered a challenge to make money from only QR50 to give it to charity for Ghaza... me, rawan, siti, nisa, lily, amsya, ina, cania, farah and marsya planned that we wud enter this challenge and sell candies at farahs compound to make money... i considered myself as the organiser, as usuall, and planned it accurately. The people staying after school wud walk to West Bay Petrol Station, have lunch at one of the resteraunts and set off to farah's house with Cania's mother... the others wud just be ther at 3....
it all started when we entered a challenge to make money from only QR50 to give it to charity for Ghaza... me, rawan, siti, nisa, lily, amsya, ina, cania, farah and marsya planned that we wud enter this challenge and sell candies at farahs compound to make money... i considered myself as the organiser, as usuall, and planned it accurately. The people staying after school wud walk to West Bay Petrol Station, have lunch at one of the resteraunts and set off to farah's house with Cania's mother... the others wud just be ther at 3....
Marsya dropped out before any1 else and refused to come as she has had "bad experiences" in door to door selling... when me, lily, rawan, nisa, and cania met after school on thursday, we walked to the resteraunt and saw REALLY HOT french school guys.... but unfortunatly they all wer with hot girls... cania and lily ordered cheese burgers, nisa and i ordered szchezwan (i so donno the spellin) rice ... which was toooo big for either of us to finish... and rawan ordered ... potato wedges... nisa kept DUMPING the food in her stomach.. she didnt evn CHEW!!!... than cania's mom came and we all took off for Farah's ... on the way i got a call from amsya saying that she myt b late as she just left for home from skool!!... as the nice person i am.. :P i sed SURE... then we all started blowing balloons... well lily blowed her FIRST EVER BALLOON... and rawan ... i think she was just chewing on the balloon the whole time... :P... when we got there... farah was still having lunch... so we took off without her to sell around compound....
our first interaction was with a couple of girls playing on the street... but they had no money, so they didnt buy anything... after that we went to a couple peoples houses and realised most of them were sleeping... until we reached a house that scared the hell out of each and every 1 of us... as soon as the lady opened the door, we told her abt our charity event and she gave us a mean look... she started ranting abt how its against qatari law to ask for money in compounds and how she was gonna SEND US TO PRISON!!! we told her we were sorry and just left as soon as she closed the door... al of our hearts were beating 500 times normal speed....
as soon as we turned around we met the ladies neighbour... we told her abt the thing the lady tellin us that we will be going to jail and stuff.... the neighbour sed thers no such thing and we shud continue and leave that lady alone cuz shes KOO KOO.... some of us were calm again but i was still creeped out inside... as we walked forward... our first customers (the little girls on the streets) came bak to us and sed they wanted to buy stuff.... we quickly follwd them out of that street and sold candies... still fearing that our next customer myt call the police...
Soon we got a call from siti and amsya that they are lost... lily imediatly sed "i have to go to the big bridge"... im like WTH... Y??... if ur going.. so am i....cuz i realised it was the first time siti got permission to go out with us... we both left for the bridge telling the rest to continue with the selling... as we waited by the bridge, lily and i got a WHOLE LOTTA HONKING... which seriously annoyed me... we also got sum waves from a cupl teachers... we kept getting call after call from both of them on wer they r and how lost they r... it was an hour now that we waited at the bridge.. still no sign of the 2... i saw some1 fimiliar's face.... it was INA!!!... and she went the wrong direction!! we were hopless as we didnt hav her no. or anything... after another 15 mins... i get a call from amsya saying that she cant cum cuz shes too lost.. and an sms from siti saying her dad was angry and cant make it... that was the moment of hell... lily sed nothing... we were disappointed... lily was REALLY disappointed... she kept thinking that if some of us cant make it... we r incomplete ... and its not gnna work... we tried so hard to make it work... that was when i knew i had to do my job and explain to her.. i explained that things dont always go the way we want them to... and that we hav to show the rest that evn if some of us drop out.. we will still do wat we came here to do... we wont give up like them...
Farah called me on my cell saying that her mom brot doughnuts and that ina was ther with them... that really shocked lily and me... evn with the wrong map, evn by going the rong direction, evn tho she didnt hav my no. to call for directions, ina didnt giv up... and she made it...
we went to farahs house still disappointed abt the other two... lily still didnt feel happy.... but i tried my best to make her feel beter... and just left her alone for a few mins to calm herself down... after a lil rest.. we all set off to go to the teachers houses... cuz it wud b safer... and none of them wud call the police on us... all of a sudden we see mr griffin and a whole bunch of kids around him... the kids came running towards us (the balloons attracted them)... and we sold to mr griffin.. he only gave us 8 riyals.. saying thats all he had... QIS shud really increase the tchrs pay... :P... 1 aftr another we went to as many tchrs as we cud... Mr Caddick, Mr Scofield, Mr Worrilow, etc... and collected their GENEROUS donations...
We kinda realised that some1 was following us all along... a cupl boys on their bikes wer on our tails since the begining... after we finished selling to the teachers, we tried going to other houses but the annoying brats wud tell the people not to buy from us... wehn i asked one of them wats wrong and y they r bing such assholes... he told us to F*** our GRANDMAS!!!... wow... a small mouth but HUGE WORDS ..... we tried al we cud to get rid of them but then i sed.. we only hav 4 bags left... and its getting dark... lets all go bak to farahs... the bike boys followed us ther too... Ina just turned around... gave them THE LOOK... she started scolding the kids and told them that she will tell ther parents... then all of a sudden both the kids and ina were quiet... and stared at each other continuosly... i found it very interesting, i shouted..."WOW A STARE CONTESTS... I WANNA PLAY"... ina cudnt help herself and giggled... im like.. leave them alone.. lets just go inside and hav fun...
We left the kids waiting outside and went up to Farah's room... we all were realy hyper for sum reason... nisa and rawan bot the remaining bags and then we counted the money... we made $410 RIYALS.... we were al so happy... al the hard work payed off... we made twice than wat we expected.... we were soo happy we took pics with the money and with each other... This was the part that changed my life... i realised that it doesn't really sound that amazng... but it all started like this... we started askin each other ques. abt how we want our future partners to b like and how we picture ourselves as in the future... those questions made us all very mushy and touchy and emotional... we all were thinking abt how we wont b with each other in a cupl years... then i came up with a ques... lets all tell each other 1 of our Secrets...
I started with mine... cuz i knew i had to make them al confident enuf to do such a thing... evn tho my secret was sumthing every1 thinks is normal... but i dont think people realise if that NORMAL... goes beyond limit its not normal anymore.... and then lily told us her secret... she sed "i still like....." we all turnd our heads and sed "We know alredy"... she was so shocked she sed ... HEY THATS NOT FAIR U GUYS TRICKED ME... hahaha.... than it was... i think Farah's turn cuz rawan and cania had no secrets.. and i beliv them.... after hearing Farahs secret i KNEW FOR SURE that she is having too much GARLIC AND CORRIANDER.... its an internal thing.. u wont get it... than it was Nisa's turn... her secret resembled one of my life experiences .... i shared with her my thoughts and soon we moved on to Ina's secret... it was something that reached all our hearts.... she has gone through soo much in her life... she has been so brave, yet soo weak all along... she hadnt told her parents abt that either.. it was a secret that made us all shed tears... we al despretly needed tissues.... Farah's like wait wait... ill go get them... aftr a minut... she came in the room with a hand busy blowing her nose and the other hand with a big roll of toilet paper.. we alllll BURST OUT LAFING... shes like i didnt know wer the others were so i got this... it was such a sudden change of emotion.. i still am lafing remembering the moment...
It was about 7 when we realised we shud call our parents to pick us up... i knew my parents wudnt find farahs house with the rong map... so i asked lily if she ca drop me to landmark so that i can meet my parents there.... lily agreed.. than it turnd out that rawans mom and dad wer in landmark too... so she planned to come along with us to landmark... it was soo sad wen we were abt to leave.. all those memories wud just b memories.... so then with rele sulking hearts we went to the front door as if we never wanted this time to pass and b with each other foreva... than lily decided to pop a baloon and sed out load ... "lets hope our frndship lasts 4eva"... and rawan replied.... "unlike the baloon".... hahaha........Nisa and Cania took off to their frends house wich was in farahs compound so they cud b dropped off home later... and lily, rawan and i took off with lily's mom to landmark....
Although it was the end of the day... i knew it wasnt the end of our lives... and certainly not the end of our frndship...
may such good memories keep comin again in all our lives.... amen....
