Such a quaint life and modern life, picket fences and familiar skies.
I drop my 4- year old daughter off at school in the morning and take a few minutes to talk to her teacher ( who happens to be my batch mate in college ) about my concerns , I didn’t let my daughter attend school the other day because I am trying to discipline her and I thought it was an appropriate punishment for disobeying me to ground her. I also took the opportunity to express how disappointed I was with them playschool when she came home the other day with a loot bag full of sweets and chocolates . I suggested having healthy food activities for the kids to learn to eat veggies and asked her to please tell the other teachers not to encourage her when she starts acting shy. Feeling good about myself and my attentiveness to my daughter’s developmental needs I head to a quiet café with my lap top to set my agenda for the day and reflect on things that are happening. I have a lot of decisions to make about my marriage and settling down.
"At the school's play ground"
It’s Thursday today, Last night I was with a bunch of old friends ( and new) one of my friends had a Dutch visitor who wanted to learn how to cook local food and catch up on the latest social scene , the latest craze they’ve been into is quite an addictive activity called “ poi” or fire dancing. Two arm length chains ending with a flammable ball that are dipped in kerosene and lighted with fire while the person twists and twirls them in the air making beautiful symmetrical circles dancing and swinging back and forth , sideways over and around the body. Very exciting and entertaining, not to mention impressive. Being the darling of the group and the diplomat of my time , sociable and eloquent , my friends insisted that I should be there . It was around 9 pm when I finally caught up with them , I had a hard time putting my baby to sleep , at first it was my newly painted nails that were annoying her sensitive sense of smell, I had gone to the salon earlier that day to accompany my friend Kay and offer moral support for her impulsive decision to have her hair premed, I opted for a foot scrub and manicure and pedicure while waiting for her. After realizing the problem of the “freshly done nails smell” I rubbed my hands with a fragrant Victoria Secret lotion and went on trying to get her to sleep.. when of all the times it turned out to be one of those nights where you are caught off guard and asked questions by an innocent child, last night was the “heaven and hell” question and how good children go to heaven and bad ones go to hell. After she finally fell asleep to a Disney song I sang to her to take her mind of the monsters and bad toys in hell. I asked the maid to sleep in my bed and hide herself under the sheets incase she woke up and checked if mommy was there. The old “ pillow mountain under the blanket was discovered a while back” hehe. Hurrying out the door I checked myself in the mirror one last time and made sure my own poi set were in my bag.
" The girls fire swining infront of kay's place in the middle of the night"
I arrived at the place, curly kay greeted me at the door and thanked me for making it.. I said hi to everyone and started to mingle , It’s been a while since I’ve been out at this time and my friends missed me .. we had a little girl talk in Kay’s room that ended up with make up experimentation and sex talks. An hour later other people came we had to join them. A few minutes later we were outside the house lighting pois in a show down in the middle of the dead street. Cheering and shouting kay’s curls almost got caught in fire but that didn’t stop us! Even I dared to light up my poi and dance with fire.. making sure we took pictures we went back inside for drinks and conversation. At around 12 something people started to leave, when all the guys were gone that’s when the party started and us girls just took off our frustrations on dancing. I got a call at around 1 PM from my husband to tell me it’s late and I should get my butt home. With a pouting face I announced my leaving , Stephenie, who really wanted to go out, especially after the make over make up said she’ll come with me since obviously no one had plans of going anywhere else. Ann begged me to stay a little more and promised she’d take me home if I did. After giving it a thought I declined the offer saying I wouldn’t want her to go out of her way since she lived close by while my place was on the other side of the world.
It was getting late anyway and I should probably go home. Steph asked to stop by at Dimsum diner to pick up some Chinese food , she called to place an order while I called my brother at home to ask him if he wanted me to bring him anything too.
It was around 2 am when I got home. My baby was fast asleep, took my smoke drenched clothes off and washed up, woke the maid and thanked her for her act of courage and logged on to the internet to tell my husband I was home. Ann was on line too.. we exchanged a couple of lines and gossiped about some of the characters at the party. She sent me some of the pictures she took of me fire twirling and we decided to call it a night. I wanted to watch a movie she lent me.. The Manchurian Candidate , I was on a mission to watch everything and anything about the Middle East, Terrorism and Politics. On my list of movies to watch are Syriana, Paradise Now, Munich and Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World.
Blindly believing that my destiny was to make a difference in the middle east I had to know all I can.
I fell asleep watching Paradise Now. At about 8 am a little voice was asking me if she could eat chocolate something.. I couldn’t make her words out and I said yes… talk about cunning! J With a sweet and sleepy voice I told her to take a bath and get ready for school 30 mins later I got up , took a shower, prayed and was on my way. After she joined the other kids I took the teacher aside and u know the rest.
It is not like this everyday of course, I don’t usually go out, in fact, no matter how hard I try to get up after putting my kid to sleep at 730 PM every night , I somehow end up sleeping too and frustratingly waking up the following morning !! hehehe I’m still at the café’ sipping iced tea and writing this, it’s almost 11:30 am , I gotta pick her up soon.
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