Being Weird Together

Greetings everyone,

How are you all doing? I do hope that you are doing marvelous because fortunately I am. And now I am back in our home town for a good couple of weeks because it is Christmas break for us students, and the reunion with family and friends really reminded me of how much I missed home. Now allow me to share to all of you my adventure with my friends. It is not really a very outrageous or extravagant adventure, we just hanged out on the different places in our city. 

Our adventure happened last Wednesday. Tuesday evening in our Facebook group we made a plan to meet up at two in the afternoon the next day, without any idea where we will go. We preferred it that way because some people will not come with us if they don’t like the place we picked to hang out to. So the plan was to meet up at two in the afternoon at the front of an internet café, but we are never the punctual group. When you say to meet up at two pm unfortunately that is only the time when people will get ready. So the lot of us got to get together around three pm. 

We went to the mall and ate ice cream at the food court. Then we decided to hang out at the plaza’s food court, where we consumed chips and soda like nobody’s business, and we talked about everything that has happened to our lives and the things that happened to everybody else’s lives. After hours of talking and making fun of each other, we decided to do a karaoke sing-off and so we went to the mall again and we took turns singing for two hours and that got me unfortunately very hoarse. It was already dark outside when were done with karaoke, so we decided to go to the carnival that is being held at the city oval. We did not ride any rides because we are short on budget, but we played games and won prizes. We also tried our skills at the billiard table, which is very unfortunate but it is very fun to see people missed their shot. After all the walking, talking and laughing, we decided to eat dinner and so we went to the plaza’s food court again and ate “kwek-kwek”, it is boiled egg covered in an orange batter that is deep fried. We talked about the stuffs happening in Aleppo, how tragic the things that the people there are experiencing. Afterwards, I told my friend that I want to take photos of the lights in the city hall because their displays are pretty amazing, they agreed and so we went and had so much fun taking turns in taking photos of each other. After a very tiring endeavor, some of us went home and the others went to an internet café to play their favorite online game, DOTA 2.

So my point in writing this entry is that you should never forget the friends that you have when you were younger, because they are the closest connection that you have to your roots, before you knew everything that you need to know about yourself. I am so blessed to have friends who I know got my back no matter what I go through in life, they respect me as I respect them and they don’t judge me when I tell them my exploits because I don’t judge them with theirs. My relationship with my friends is best describe with the phrase, “what you give is what you receive.” What I realized as well is that many people come and go in your life but the people who choose to stay are treasures, which you should value and take care of.

Love, 

Niña Liza