Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Mad Props

No disrepect to Ramadan or Islam is intended on my part. Fasting during Ramadan is mad hard, hard enough that I couldn't keep it up for long. I was more making fun of myself for fasting because unlike Muslims I don't have any religious or spiritual reasons behind it, and I'm a pussy who couldn't do it. I was really just doing it for the experience, but when I realized I was looking forward to my period for the first time ever (women can't fast during that) it was clear that Ramadan isn't for me. So I don't know which is really more offensive: my complaining about how hard Ramadan is or fasting as an atheist "trying out something new!" I'm done fasting now since never getting sick or having a digestive problem when I was in Egypt is catching up with me (what happened to my stomach of steel?).

"Dude, fasting is hard. How long till iftar? I want some water."

"Why are you doing it if all you do it complain?"

"..."

And here's a random fun quote from a friend: "In Syria, we worship the moustache."

1 comment:

Liz said...

hey - thanks for leaving a comment on my blog. send me an email (ernugent@gmail.com) - i'd love to hear what you're doing your fulbright about!