EDUCATION

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

2012 2013 school year

2012 2013 school yea

            In the year of 2012 and 2013 I was in eleventh grade. That whole year was a great year for me. I have learned much more new things. I had different classes in this year. I was an intern in one class. The happiest thing was that I got all As and Bs in my classes. My teachers were really nice and helpful to me actually not only to me they were nice to all students. Also my friends were great.

            My teachers are the most helpful and great teachers in the world. They taught me a lot of new things. All of the classes were regulars which everybody can have but one of my classes was the best, I got so many chances to leaned new things and it was because of the teacher. She is really nice teacher. She did a lot of things for us. She had found out a professor to teach us how to run a business. She is not only a teacher which can just teach what she has to teach, but she help student with everything. She really cares for people. She is my best teacher because she know how to treat with eusol student. She argues with other teachers for not being nice to eusol student. She is the best teacher ever.

       My classes were really nice. I learned many new things. I made some improvement in my English and other subjects. This year was the perfect year because I had the wonderful teacher who doesn’t let me to speak my native language with my friend from my country. The other perfect thing was that I became senior. My friends were also really nice. I learned about new cultures.  I learned how people live their lives in other country, and I learned about different religion. I had great time with my friends. They were really nice. I hope next year we have classes together.

            The year of 2012 and 2013 was great for me as a student in Furness high school. I’m coming to Furness from 3 years and its being really wonderful for me. I hope my senior year in Furness will be also great as the before. My wish is to improve my English more, and for that I need teacher like this year I had. I hope I can learn more and especially I can get another language. I wish great for my senior year.

 

COME TO AMERICA

    Dear  Somia,

                                                                                                                                       01/28/2013

  Did you ever wish to come to the United States? I think you should move to America. I have some reasons why I want you to come here. My first, reason to move is education, second, I miss you a lot, Last I have one important advice in which I will tell you how to live here and how to stay in your religion.

            I know that you really love studying and you want to improve your education. Education there in Pakistan is also very good, and it helps people, but education in the U.S is better than there. You can take classes that you want. You can learn other languages and I know that you really want to learn another language. In Pakistan you are confused about going to college, but here you can go to college. If you go to college then definitely you can get a degree and find a job. 

           We lived there together for all of our life and now I moved to the U S. I remember how we spent every single day together. We woke up together and got ready for school, we ate breakfast and we went to school together. Then we went home and ate lunch. We prayed and went to the masque to study  the Quran. After that, we went to another class where we were studying our school work . When we came back we did our homework together and we had a little time to play. Do you remember it? I always talk about you with my friends. I have many friends here, but I still miss you. You were smart and the best friend ever.

I’m going to tell you how you must live the US. It is little different than Pakistan. You have to really be careful with food. In the US there are a lot of things which are not Haalal.  But still you can get Pakistani food here. Its not really easy to get it, but you can. The other thing is clothing. Here there are many people who just laugh at your clothes, but you have to wear what you wear in Pakistan. Me personally many people laugh and talk about my clothes, but I still wear my culture’s clothes, even to school. I don’t care about them. In the US there are many things that don’t happen in Pakistan. Here people have more freedom. Women can do whatever they want to do. For us ,we can go to school here or maybe have jobs. That was my advice to you. I miss you please come and realize my advice.

                                                                                                                                          love,

                                                                                                                                                    tuheed

A PAKISTANI WEDDING

A Pakistani wedding, like others, is a ceremony to celebrate the wedlock of a bride and a groom. Pakistani weddings also bring the groom is and bride families closer. A wedding has great importance in different cultures of the world. A Pakistani wedding is a great feast of  fun, wearing expensive clothes.

Mangni is the engagement ceremony that marks the formal engagement of couple. The bride and groom’s families come together. They are praying and blessing  the couple who are recited and the wedding date is decided during Mangni.

Mayon is the custom of the bride entering into the state of seclusion eight to nine days before the wedding. She is free from formal housework and errand arounds the house. The bride and groom are not allowed to see each other after Mayun.

Dholki is the popular ceremony of singing traditional wedding and popular songs by two or three percussion instruments Dholki being the main one. The girl is officially  treated as bride (dulhan). She wears a traditional Pakistani yellow outfit. Her brothers, sisters, and cousins bring her (bride) in the dholki party.

Rasmi e Mehndi (henna party) takes place a day before the wedding. It’s a ceremony mainly of women. They apply Mehndi (henna) to the bride’s hands and feet, sing, dance and bless the bride. Sadka (warding off evil) is performed on the bride’s head. Traditionally Mehndi is brought by the groom’s parents. Mehndi (henna) is applied by different beautiful design and sometimes the groom’s name takes place on the bride’s hands.  Rasmi e Mehndi is organized for the groom also in some parts of Pakistan.

Baraat is a procession of family, relatives, and friends of the groom that accompanies the groom to the bride’s home for the official wedding ceremony. The groom makes his way to the bride’s home a richly decked in a car or horse and rose petals.

Nikah is a purely Islamic wedding ceremony that usually takes place at the bride’s home. Nikah is attended by close family members, relatives, and friends of the groom and bride . Nikah- naama (document of marriage contact) is registered in Nikah.

Rukhsati is the ceremony to bid farewell to the bride before her departure to the groom’s house. She says goodbye to her parents, close friends and family. The Quran is held over her head as a blessing. It’s a pretty touching moment.

Mooh Dikhai is the ceremony of the first time ‘’showing the face’’ after the Nikah. The couple is made to see each other in the mirror. The bride and groom share a sweet fruit.

Chauthi is the custom of bringing the bride back to her parent’s home on the seventh day after wedding (depending on family tradition). Usually bride’s brothers perform the chauthi and to fetch their sister home.

Violence is Sometimes Justified

‘’Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." In some situations violence is justified. I heard a story about a girl that who was always patient. When she was young, if friends fought with her or said something bad to her she never fought back. She was very nice to everybody. 

         Time went on and she got married. When she married, her mother-in-law was so mean to her. The mother-in law was always angry at her, but she was quiet. The mother-in-law thought that she had power over her.

        One day the mother-in-law told the girl to leave her home and her son. The daughter-in-law was about to tell her husband, but her husband was in another country.She thought that it was not OK to tell him now and she went to her parents’ house. When her husband called her, he was angry at his wife and asked her, "Why did you go to your parents’ house? Go home; you should be at home you don’t have to go there like that." She became very sad and she realized that she didn't have to be more patient.
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When she came back to her home the next day the mother-in-law told her, "I didn't tell you to not come here again? She answered, ‘’Yes, and I remember it,  but what was my mistake? Why I can not come here?" Whatever the  mother-in-law said, she argued back. She told the mother-in-law, "I was very patient because I didn’t want to argue with you, but I  can’t take it anymore."

She brought all of the matters in front of the whole family. She said all of the things that the mother-in-law told her. When the other family members heard that all of them thought that the mother-in-law was wrong. The father-in-law told his wife to say sorry to her. The mother-in-law thought that she was getting impatient and it will not be good for her  family anymore and if she didn’t say sorry, all of the family members will be angry with her.

Finally, the mother-in-law asked for forgiveness. The daughter-in-law said, " I didn’t mean for you to say sorry to me, but I just wanted you to stop fighting with me because I like a house where there is love and happiness." Then she didn’t really fight with her.

In my opinion, I think violence is justified if someone threatens to kill your family then you would fight back. I think violence is not justified for arguing and jealousy. I believe that you can only fight back if it is big thing, but not every little thing.