Day 2

Hello there!!!

So, next morning we all went to the farmhouse again... sorry I mean "Mhartiste centre" and we were engaging in all sorts of discussions about identity and citizenship and during our break I walked past Chris's room and I saw some hair straightners! Me and Adeela (This Pakistani-Dutch girl) went up to him and confronted him it was hilarious and the poor thing admitted that it was his!. This afternoon saw the arrival of the rest of British gang- who upon seeing the jam and bread that was to be our lunch realised our plight!!! That day in the evening we went for a walk in Onna and we saw all the pretty Dutch houses like the ones below:

We were just having a quiet stroll when we saw some crazy Dutch guy who had a dog in the back of his car and so we all starting running like crazy !!! By the time we stopped running we didn't even remember why we were running and from whom! It was hilarious!

I also got my next Tv debut!!!! And i speak a few times on this video, for the 10 millionth time No im not giving that poor girl dirty looks (i think) ... http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=2819712

That night we had our dinner which I cant actually remember what it was hehehe and then we headed off to the hotel in which we had dinner number 2!! And went off to bed.

Connecting Muslim Youth - Organised by British Embassy!

Day 1 - Friday

Well, this weekend the last day of my uni this year !!!!!! I was invited to go along to a muslim youth event in the neverlands! Myself and Fatima originally thought that it would be in "The Hague" but ohhhh no we were in some farmhouse in the dutch countryside!!!!

The purpose was to share experiences with 8 muslim youth from England and 8 muslim youth in holland. There are lots and lots of stories to tell even though it was like only 3 nights! but i will slowly slowly if i can be bothered talk about it all!

So on friday afternoon myself and Fatima met at heathrow so we could catch the flight together she was late and so when we checked in, it was already time to go to the gate! Of course we couldnt just ignore the duty free! So we looked through the perfumes, bought the lovely hypnose! and just carried on until we heard 'Gate 22 - Amsterdam closing!' and so we made a run for it and we were like the last ones on the plane!!!

We were met at Schipol airport by Jedidja, representative from the British Embasy and Chris. The funny thing was jedidja is like thats chris walking, hes in blue ... and me and fatima could see this like big man wearing a blue jacket with this kafshe greasy hair and big glasses and tatoos and we both just said ..."Thats chris" and shes like yea yea!! and then the scary guy moved out of the way and we saw poor chris who was like this youngish typical cambridge grad guy and our responce was PHEWWWW!!!

We then saw most of the group and said our hellos and after about 30 mins we all got on the coach and made our way to Onna!

When we finally got there after like 2 hours... Me and fatima started giving each other the look and then we became hysterical with laugheter! we were in the farm land and with no signs of civilisation around!!! We all went in and said our hellos and stuff and we looked around the place which was basically a house with bedrooms and largish rooms used for meetings and so on.

Dinner was very plain! It was the smallest sized breads, butter some tomato thing salad and soup... at this point i wanted to take my bag and go home from starvation!!! We then finally go the chance to escape from the god forsaken place and we went off to our hotel!

When we got there the one thing that brought the happiness back into our eyes was the mcdonalds right outside the hotel!!! wohoooo salvation!!! We checked into the hotel, very nice and clean and the bathroom was great blah blah and then so i unpacked and changed into my pygamas and then i went to knock on fatimas door!!! STARVATION we both cried!!!

What would we do? It was 11:45 and mcdonalds was closed! But we thought we would give it a try so off we went 2 scarf girls in the middle of no where in their pink pygamas in the search of food hehehe... well mcdonalds was closed so we decided to walk through the drive through and there was a lady behind us in her car who couldnt believe her eyes that she was at a mcdonalds in some remote village at a quarter to midnight with 2 scarf girls in their PINK pygamas standing infront of her hahahahahah.

Well crisis was over we got our food stuffed our faces and went to sleepp....