I am the absolute worst blogger of all time.

I can't believe I haven't written anything in almost 2 months. I'm terrible!

I'm back!

It's been a crazy summer, I got to visit three different countries, spend my days on the beach, and spend time with my family, what more could a girl ask for? So classes started on Monday, and I already have work to do and I know it's only downhill from here! But insha'Allah I'll do well this semester, because last year was a total academic train wreck. It's so great to be back at Stony Brook, every night there's iftar, so it's pretty much like having a gigantic dinner party with your friends every night, elhamdulillah! Here's a video I stumbled upon on YouTube about a man in Turkey who can paint pictures...oh, did I mention he wasn't born with eyes? Ramadan Mubarak!

Esref Armagan

Hearbreaking Literature and lots of shopping

It's been a crazy past few days, going to get my passport renewed all the way in Connecticut, buying the millions of (really random) things my mother tells me to buy, driving allover the place, but I have somehow managed to finish the book that I planned to read on the plane trip from here to Amman in 3 days, I hate being such an obsessive reader. I really can not put book downs until I finish them all at once. After seeing a preview and being interested in the story, I saw "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult for sale at Costco so I figured I should read it since I hear it's really good. It WAS really good, but it was terrifying, heartbreaking, and at the end I cried my eyes out for a good half hour. Go read it. Even if you're a guy.

Change of plans

I discovered a few days ago that I actually don't need to go to summer school, so I'm so excited to say that insha'Allah, I'll be going overseas to see the family! I miss my sisters like crazy, and I miss my mama! It's her birthday today. On this day in 1966 Allah blessed my grandparents with a beautiful daughter, who turned out to be a wonderful friend, sister, wife but most important, a wonderful mother. I should be with my mother right now, Paradise lies beneath her feet.

Ne mutlu Turkum diyene....

I'm in New Jersey visiting a wonderful family-friend, it's so good to be with me peoples! Makes me miss Turkiye so much more though. I must have gained 15 pounds in the past 2 days, yesterday I was treated to a feast in Toros, a Turkish restaurant in Paterson (kazandibi for dessert :D) and then today was invited to a barbecue, and I think I ate my own weight in kadayif. Let's see if I go on any other Turkish food binges tomorrow :)

Bored

My life has no in-between, either I'm super busy or I'm super bored! AHHHH

Finals are donnnnne!

Elhamdulillah, I'm free! So I realize that this is definitely a part time blog, when I have school I never write on it, but when I'm on vacation I'm always posting, but hey can I do? I stumbled across this good series on YouTube, called the Shaytan series, and each episode portrays every day life scenarios that happen to us all the time, every day, where Shaytan the Rejected coerces us to do evil! Here are the links to all fourteen, watch them all!

Shaytan 1
Shaytan 2
Shaytan 3
Shaytan 4
Shaytan 5
Shaytan 6
Shaytan 7
Shaytan 8
Shaytan 9
Shaytan 10
Shaytan 11
Shaytan 12
Shaytan 13
Shaytan 14