American Spring Break
Well, We used to have two weeks holiday back home. We will not call it spring break, but it always comes after the mid terms of the whole year because in Baghdad we dont have a semester. We normally have a whole year, and then we will have mid terms in January and then we will take two weeks break after that. For me this is the first time I have a spring break. I went on the weekend to Daytona and Orlando. Orlando was good, we went to Downtown Disney and had a good dinner. We drove to Daytona afterwards and it was awesome, I havnt seen that many people out in the streets before. It was crazy. I saw different kinds of people there. I didnt know what to think first, but surely I missed my brother so much. Because if he was here we would have had so much fun laughing at things and mocking stuff around us. Its funny how different cultures can celebrate somthing. well at home we never really went out for spring break. although some families used to go to the north and enjoy the weather there, but for my family we always stayed at home and enjoyed watching TV and not having to study as much. My mom would tell us to study though when we get some time for the other half of the year. so Basically we just get some time off to sit at home.
Here, its not about the holiday. Its about how much money can you make and how much money can you make people spend. Flights are expensive, Hotels prices are higher and everything is almost crazy.
Anyway, Here its all about the market. The profit companies can make out of holidays.
I dont think I have anything else to add for now but I will try for later.
Good night
Here, its not about the holiday. Its about how much money can you make and how much money can you make people spend. Flights are expensive, Hotels prices are higher and everything is almost crazy.
Anyway, Here its all about the market. The profit companies can make out of holidays.
I dont think I have anything else to add for now but I will try for later.
Good night
posted by RAFRAF at 8:41 PM
7 Comments:
salam Rafraf
good beganing, i really like your blog.
dear: you are lucky to spend some part of your (inshallah) successful life in such lovely city so you have to take advantage of each single minute there
by the way, Jay (Ana Amerki) did a lot of marketing for your blog. (thanks Jay)
i wish you personally and our lovelllly Iraq all the best.
Mansour - Saudi student in Jordan
Rafraf...
I completely agree with you at how ridiculous the american way of life is. It is a similarity to survival of the fittest. A human race, back stabbers, stress, pressure...just to make more money than the next person.
Why is it that you hardly hear of people visiting friends and family for just coffee? They are too busy. These days, children are suffering in my opinion due to parents concentrating more on demanding careers rather than their family. It is hard to have a work/life balance any more.
And yes, a vacation...what is that?? Oh, the good old days when I could take 4 weeks and go to europe. It's all a blur.
Keep up your studying, Rafraf. You are very brave and ambitious. You will go far....
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"It is a similarity to survival of the fittest. A human race, back stabbers, stress, pressure...just to make more money than the next person.
Why is it that you hardly hear of people visiting friends and family for just coffee?"
I guess you feel this way because that is all that you are seeing. Believe me, it isn't like that for the majority of Americans. Go to a small town somewhere, trust me, there are a lot of them. Shoot, you don't even need to go to a small town. I wasn't raised in one and I don't live in one now and my way of life was and is nothing like you describe. You shouldn't make such sweeping generalizations about 'the American way of life'.
Dear Lynn,
I cant say that I was generalizing when I wrote that, I described the people who were around me because if I wanna generalize then how about the people from my own country who follow and do what I mentioned in my blog...after all it was just an observation of what i saw happening in front of me...I do appreciate your comment though...thank you.
Rafraf,
I don't know if you still blog here, but you visited our church yesterday in Terrell. You have such an awesome testimony.
I would love to find out more about your daily life and things that you notice here in America verses Iraq.
America is a wonderful country, but sometimes we don't understand or even take pause to realize how blessed we are to live in a country full of freedom.
As far as the Lynn lady on your blog...some Americans think that if you don't "think" about things the way they do...then you are in error. Lynn forgets that here in America your insights are very welcome as they come from "your" eyes and no-one else. That is what freedom is. The ability to view things differently and express those views without harm coming to you or others.
I pray for you and your family in Iraq. Is there anyone in particular you would like for me to intercede for?
God bless and keep you on your journey.
darlene
I wanted to remember the words to that poem you have in your home page and wanted to thank you for your post. I understand your pain as I grew up in baghdad and feel as though I have never left. I am living in California, but my heart is still there. I hope this comment gives you some courage to keep doing what you are doing. And now that the traitor in Egypt fell, maybe it is not long for Baghdad to regain its strength.
Allah eghalek
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