Thursday, October 18, 2012

Weary Drives to Practices

My brother, Bara, started soccer conditioning just days after my parents left and I was the only one to take him to practice. I had gotten my license in the end of June, so I only had it for 2 months. As a 16-year-old teenager who had just gotten her license, my parents gave me the opportunity to drive my siblings around everywhere, making me already sick to death of driving before they even left. But I can’t complain now; I’m actually really thankful to have my license because if I didn’t, my siblings and I would stay home all month. That is what I would call "real torture".

To help alleviate myself from all the driving, I happened to get in contact with Bara’s friend’s mom (look at real mommy in action) and we both arranged to carpool with each other because I felt like practices couldn’t have been put at worse times in the day. Bara’s practices were Monday through Friday from 7-8:30AM and 4-5:30 PM. Let me emphasize the 7AM practice! 7AM!! That means that after cleaning the kitchen from suhoor and performing the first prayer, I get only 2 more hours to sleep. 2 hours!! BARA!!!

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Bara is my 15-year-old brother and he is number dos in line in the family. Overall, he's actually a really nice brother. Whenever I'm in need of something he can usually help me, unless it involves driving. Some traits that makes him stand out from the rest of us kids is his talkativeness. He is very talkative compared to me and Malaak, which isn’t such a bad thing because it can cancel out with my quietness. If you ask him about his day, he can go on for centuries describing something that happened in 5 minutes.

Another characteristic about Bara that annoys me (but I kind of got over it) is his addiction to computers. He has this major attachment to doing everything on the computer. Most importantly, he has all of his can’t-stop-me-now-in-the-middle-of-downloading-something moments at the time where I most need the computer. I’ve gotten used to not getting the computer, so I’ve slowly not cared about getting on the computer for my fun time, thanks to Bara.


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  1. AzaleaOctober 25, 2012 at 7:54 AM

    Dang, I don't know how you managed to get all this stuff done, especially during the summer when most people are feeling lazy and doing next to nothing. I was even more impressed when you mentioned suhoor. I didn't realize your experience as a mom was during Ramadan. That must have taken a lot of extra responsibility!

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  2. Brigitte DietzNovember 16, 2012 at 8:00 AM

    I feel your pain with all the driving and practices. It's really annoying at times because practices for *my* brother at such inconvenient times. Do coaches try to make it hard to get there?

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