Fall 2012 Pictures

I can't believe that this year is 2012, and it is almost over! I made a list of things I wanted to do between now (December 20) and the end of my winter holiday (end of January), and one of the things was to write a blog. I feel like it is a good way to post all the pictures I collect and to have a little update available to the limited few who are interested. So here is my fall semester in pictures.

I started learning Hindi-Urdu!

You won’t believe it, but I ran BYU alumni 5K. 1). It is unbelievable that I actually ran (and it wasn't from the po-po or a dog). 2). I participated in a BYU event (whilst not even being an alumni). “Times they are a changing…”

Pierre turned 25! This was such a wonderful party hosted by the lovely Ilona . 

I ate brunch here with Aimee a couple times--wonderful food with a wonderful lady!

These little buggers are called "rats' tails"--yes indeed--viva la furbies! Ruth made them one cold fall evening. 

One of the interesting things I find at the shelter--yes, there was an entire book on basically how to be a  Jew. 

My place of employment—I love the shelter :) 

Harvard Yard early in the semester

Ms. Saraki

Ruth had a birthday shout horray! So we went to Machu Picchu. No not the real one, the restaurant in Union Square. They serve great chicken and fries. 

Fall has sprung? Idk--at least it didn't snow (okay it snowed like twice). 

Saraki wasn’t having a good day/week. HAHAH. I laugh because I love you. 

Hijaaaaaaaab came to Boston!!

Squirrel! 

When I get bored and need to relax I watch food shows (how fat of me, I know). I saw one food show about food trucks and this food truck was featured—I had their rosemary fries, zaki  aowi!

I went to a murder mystery dinner party and played the g-ma of little red ridding hood. This was my posse. I won the best character performance award (which included a snickers bar!)—I think they gave it to me to shut up my ridiculous Indian accent. 

Amiee, Avanash, and I went to the movies and saw Life of Pi—and brought ‘healthy’ snacks, such as celery. 

Harvard Yard

I spent a lot of time at Widener (near to 25-30 hours a week) studying for the LSAT this semester. 

Grazy Hair Days!

One of the sketchy pictures I sent Rhiannon as a threat. She didn't send me a picture of baby Leka--I needed those to survive!

Finals came, I wrote two papers in 24 hours (12 hours each). Granted I did research for the entire month of November, so when it came time to write out what I had discovered, it wasn’t too bad. I moved to Lamont for finals, t heir bathrooms are much nicer smelling than Wideners, and it is entertaining to see how freshman freak out about their exams—exams that simply require your memorize information from a text book! O where have those days gone?

Saraki came by my house to eat guacamole with me and wish me farewell before I left on 12/12/12—this is her being homeless in my bed while I pack.

And that’s it for this past semester. It was a semester not only filled with moments that these pictures attest to, but a great semester for accomplishing goals. 

The title of my blog is from this poem

The title of this blog come from the following that I wrote in 2008 (?). I wrote this poem at a specific time in  my life, with a specific purpose--however it is strange that the words continue to take on new meaning that resonant truer than ever for me both personally and academically (even before I started studying Islam). Enjoy the blog and poem!

unfold the piece by piece, by
pushes it pulls away through
white, through silver till I pull
at the white, and now I can see the piece
fill the holes in my head, where pieces
repeated, the sound of the brown, softly
pulling at currents rotating in, and out
of conscious parts, that concise movement, of
years amounting, into particles of years
of traditions that tangled language in
god’s words, in God’s words is heard
the adhān of the rasūlullāllah, where
five to one hundred four thousand,
four hundred seventy two parts
folding, now, into pious pieces,
don’t count any more.