Iftar by UNIS

So, yesterday we had another Iftar event by the University of Newcastle Islamic Society.
I already told you about the first Iftar I attended here.
For yesterday's Iftar, I prepared watermelon juice, which is always a must in most Maldivian family Iftars. During the Ramadan days I spent at home, I drank watermelon juice almost every day and I noticed that it quenches my thirst much better than any other juice. So I thought I'd let other people have its goodness as well.
I went to the shopping centre during the  1 hour break I got between Math and English class and bought a watermelon. My gorgeous classmate, Asna, was so kind to give me the keys to her apartment at Barahineban so I just went to her apartment by the shuttle bus and prepared the juice there and refrigerated it.
Straight after English, we had Health class. Health ended anhour early, at 4pm so I went back to Bara, got the juice and got back to the Auchmuty courtyard just in time for breaking the fast. I ate some dates, got myself registered at the table and waited at the courtyard. There I met the two pretty Malaysian Muslims, Aisha and Iza.

So after breaking the fast, all the Muslims prayed while the non-muslims who joined us in the event had supper. After prayer, Aisha, Iza and I joined the huge queue. While we were waiting, we talked a lot and I came to know that they live with 7 other Malaysian Muslim girls. I was a bit envious to be honest, because it would  have been so amazing to live with girls and Muslims at that. :D They even invited me over to their place for Eid celebrations! I am so excited! 

Then we ate a hearty meal!

Aisha & Iza

And the food was so delicious! Good food, better people and best times- what more could a girl ask for? :D

UPDATE: Check out the Iftar featured on Newcastle Herald with much better quality pictures here.

Hello, new people!

Oh and I totally forgot to mention the new people. To those of you who already know, we used to have two Pakistani guys, a Swedish guy, an Aussie girl, a Korean and a Japanese guy apart from me, the Maldivian, in this house. Each of us have our own rooms, but we share the kitchen and bathrooms. Although they were my house mates, we did not see much of each other because all of us had the same routines- Go to uni, come back home and stay in our rooms till dinner, go to the kitchen and cook dinner one by one and then stay holed up in our rooms for the rest of the day. So the only time we met were  the occasional clash of our cooking times.

This semester, the Korean guy and the Swedish guy (Drilon) left. Drilon was here for just the one semester as an exchange student, but I don't know about the other guy. When I came back from holidays, he wasn't here.

But there was this guy from Norway instead, Kris. And the landlord told me there was a Chinese girl as well, but I haven't even seen her, not even after one whole week has passed, which tells a lot about how often we stay in our rooms!

At the uni, we have pretty much the same people in our class, (If you don't remember, read this again!), but we did get one new girl from Malaysia, Thibba, who had just finished her A'levels. Even though she is in our class, she isn't doing Medicine, she is going for Nutrition and Diet, if I remember correctly.

Only a  few of us were in class the first day. Most people arrived late, but by the end of the week, everyone was here, except Masa and I don't really know where he is.

Also, I attended Iftar (breaking fast at sun set) by the University of Newcastle Islamic Society and I met so many new people there. The most special one is Amina, whose parents are from Pakistan, but she is an Aussie, born and grew up in Newcastle. We chatted for quite some time and it was really nice. Talking about Iftar, here is a picture from the one on last Monday!

Aand that reminds me, I have to go to the shopping centre and get a watermelon for today's Iftar. It is going to be so much fun and I'd hopefully have more pictures! :D So it's bye for now, and see you later!