Ok, so I have a lot of drafts that I have saved on here which I will publish sometime soon.
They will update you guys a little bit better on what I've been up to since I've been here in SC.
Hmm... I was here since Aug. 2nd and had booked my ticket for Sept. 22nd (school starts on the 23rd), which would be 2 days after our religious post-Ramadaan celebration of Eid.
I was excited about spending this first Eid with my husband but at the same time we had no idea about how we would celebrate it.
We haven't found any practicing Muslims over here :( and so we actually had no plans.
We were thinking we'd just pray and chill at home, like we do everyday... as it is, we love spending time together :D Alhamdulillah!
Well, one morning my sister text messages me on my cell and is like, 'Guess who is coming over for Eid?' and I'm confused... and so I ask 'who?'. She doesn't say anything back to me but I realize something fishy is going on.
Then I talk to my mom later on in the day and I find out that my dad had called up my husband and told him that he wanted the 2 of us to come over back to OH for Eid (which would be 2 days before I was intended to return). My dad also said that he knew my ticket had already been booked and to see if it could be changed and that my dad would be paying for my husband's ticket. That would be his Eid gift to him :)
So yup, my ticket was already booked and we called to find out if we could cancel or change and the airline people told us that we'd have to pay $150!!! This, of course, was more than the amount that my ticket cost because it was a one-way back to OH.
So we decided to forget about the wasted ticket and just buy a new one and let my dad pay for my hubby's.
Ok... so long story short :D I'm gonna be in OH on Sept 18th along with my husband!
I'm really happy that we'll get to spend our first Eid together with my family and little cousins, alhamdulillah.
Although I'm happy tough, this trip is still bittersweet because I know that I won't be able to see my husband for 3 whole months :'( This whole distances thing is difficult... and these past 1.5 months have been the most time I have spent with him over the whole year of our marriage.
Oh yeah, that reminds me... our first wedding anniversary is coming up! Masha'Allah.
It's on Oct 11th :)
I was planning on paying my husband a visit so that we could celebrate together (it's on a Sunday) but now it's pretty much impossible. First, it'd be too expensive, second I'm gonna have midterms around that time. Third, we're having an AlMaghrib (www.almaghrib.org) class the same weekend :( So yeah, my plans have pretty much been canceled.
Am gonna end this here because it's late and my husband is already snoring away on our futon... poor thing!
Until later...
Peace.
