Sunday, August 23, 2009

Been a while

So...
it's been quite a while since I last posted. My friend told me to write in this post that the reason for my absence was cancer. My friends and I proceeded to make him feel like crap. If anyone wants to leave threatening voicemails or send him anything harmful let me know so I can give you his number/address because it's illegal for me to post it online or something.

But cereally,

I went on a 40 day trip down the east coast with my Mosque people, 10 of us, all under 28 scept one of em, and it was friggin awesome.
We went down to North Carolina and stopped at a mosque whose parking lot was bigger than my block, and it was surrounded by trees. Creepy.
But the food was off da hook.
Mad good Caribbean food, all halal surprisingly (Muslim's Kosher).

But that was only a pit stop, so we were off to ATL the next day. We got there 7 hrs later, and it was ...disappointing. I dont know why but I had envisioned it as an almost Manhattinish kinda place with a bunch of 1985 Cadillacs with 45 inch rims and lots of music. But when we got to the downtown area, yes there were a couple of skyscrapers, some odd stores, but it was dead. Nobody on the streets. In the span of 10 blocks we counted 7 people. The mosque there was insanely beautiful though. Had a huge dome (typical?) but a bunch of fountains, and all with glazed marble, and the main hall was HUGE. The word huge is in capitals to emphasize the vastness of this hall. ( Pictures will hopefully be up next post). The mosque was the head mosque(?) of Atlanta (in Urdu it's called the murkuz) and they assigned us to go help out at and bring students closer to the mosque at different places. The first of which was Masjid Taqwa, in Doraville. I'll talk bout it later.