MY EXPERIENCE DURING THE LAST SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

                Last school holiday was one of the holidays I was looking forward to.  I really wanted to go home. But when the time comes, I didn’t.  Instead, I went to my grandparents’.  My parents were so busy that they didn’t have the time to come pick me up.  Even if I took the initiative to go back by myself, they would still have to pick me up at the train station, and I really didn’t want to be a burden. So I decided not to go home, but my Aunt Ira called and told me that she would pick me up to stay with her at my grandparents’ house. You see, she lives back with them since she got divorced years ago.

                So after asking my mom’s permission - and getting to know that she is the one who told my aunt to pick me up because she could not just leave her precious little daughter at the college alone – I decided to go.  It started out boring, as I expected. Homework, eat, sleep and more homework. But then, my aunt took me to my other aunt’s place.  My other aunt, whom I call Mommy, wasn’t home at that time. She and her husband, as usual, were busy. So my aunts let me stay at Mommy’s place with my cousins, Anis and Adibah. Oh, and not forgetting their 8 year-old brother, Ammar.

                Having the house to ourselves, we cooked every simple dish that we could, chopped all of the fruits that they had in the house, made some juice, and picked a whole bunch of movies; and had a movie marathon with almost of the stories. Girls Day is always a blast. Well, almost all-girls. We wouldn’t want to leave out Ammar, wouldn’t we?

                After filling our tummy with all the scrumptiously not-so-healthy combination of food, we went out jogging around the housing area. Now this was where I laughed a lot more than when I was watching the movies. We split up while jogging; Adibah and I while Anis went with Ammar. When we came into a road, Adibah got chased by two big black dogs! They were just following her but she got freaked out that she ran as fast as she could. They almost bit her on her buttocks when a nice looking granny shooed them away.

We chatted with her for quite a while before the same scenario happened to Anis. She was on her way to us when it happened. Just like Adibah, she screamed like it was the end of her world. I couldn’t help myself but laugh my heart out. I apologized to them afterwards for laughing. But hey, that granny laughed too! Honestly, I’m glad I knew that it is not very wise to run in front of dogs. They, on the other hand, didn’t know that. Anis told us that she sent Ammar home before coming to us. Well, at least that was one wise thing she did. I don’t know what would happen to him if he followed Anis at that time.

Having the opportunity to hang out with them is a memory I’ll treasure as we are all living in boarding schools and it’s really hard to see each other that often. I didn’t regret going with my Aunt though I really wanted to go home. Now I realize that their homes too are one of the places I can call home.

xoxo,

Al ♥