Hiba's Blog of Thoughts

February 23, 2018 Dear Diary,          Today was just like any other day: busy, exhausting, but still fun. Today is Friday, which brought my mood up by a lot. It's almost 9:45 p.m. right now. I'm sitting at my desk trying to finish all my homework so I won't have to do it later.          Like last week, my family has to go to another party tomorrow (is it just me who has this many parties?). I'm excited about this one because more of my friends will be there.          On Sunday, I'm probably going to go watch the movie Black Panther with my friends and my brother. There has been so much craze going on about that movie, so I expect it to be really good. But then again, every Marvel movie is really good.          I know I am going to spark many arguments about this, but in my opinion, Marvel is better than D.C. I just needed to get it out there. The only D.C. movie I've actually ...

        It's 8:15 p.m. right now. Finally, I can relax.  My weekend so far has been booked. I've had no free time and no time to do my abundance of homework. Here's how Friday and Saturday of my 4-day weekend went:         Right after school yesterday, my family had to go to a party at my mom's friend's house. It was supposed to be at my house at first, but the location of it changed last minute. The kids my age stayed in the basement most of the time, while the older adults stayed upstairs. I was ecstatic because there weren't any younger kids to annoy us, which is pretty rare. We stayed there until 12 a.m. playing video games and eating ice cream.         As soon as I woke up the next morning, my mother, my brother and I went to Ikea with my cousins to help pick out their furniture. One of my cousins is 5 years old while the other is 3 years old, and for 1 glorious hour, they stayed at the children's...

One way my family keeps our memories are by taking photos. Even though most of my photos are on my phone, there's still a huge pile of photo albums somewhere in the back of my closet, and it is always fun looking back into the past. Here are two pictures that trigger so many of my memories: I remember this day very clearly. Some of my friends and I went on a "field trip" to an apple farm in Indiana back in October. There weren't only a few of us going. There were enough kids to fill most of a school bus. I knew most of the other kids, but I sat with my very close friends; Riha, Suwaiba, and Hafsa. It was kind of like a school field trip with supervisors, a school bus, and lunches served to us, but at the same time, there were fewer rules and more freedom, which made it better.          I remember being able to go around wherever we wanted around the farm, and just meeting up for lunch. We stayed there for nearly 8 hours, picking apples and pumpkins, playing...