R.final portfolio -2
Author: Rshahbain
WEEK 3 SATURDAY
Wow, it’s been a while since I last wrote for this class. A lot of days passed so many things happened. But ill just start with the fun part a few days ago was my sisters birthday, her 18th birthday. you think its supposed to be a big deal and she would wake exited and filled with excitement. but nope this girl slept till it Athened duhr 1:00pm. and when she woke up it was just another day for her. I was the one exited as if it was my birthdays, I’m dancing around the house jumping around telling everyone its her birthday.i just can’t with this girl…
later that day I went down to my neighbors and I told them lets do something together.so they got the lights and some junk food we found in our pantries and set it up on the table.
I went out the other day at 7:02 with my neighbors to get some stuff we needed for the house, and the wether was to die for the sun was setting and there was a light breeze brushing in in the wind, it was just perfect. we went to this kind of pier looking place. near my house and sat there to enjoy the sunset.
SUNDAY : APRIL 19
All I’ve been doing is getting ready for ramadan. just 5 more days. Eeeeeep I’m so exited, but its official we won’t get to go the masque this year 🙁 🙁 there all closed. we started decorating and making food and preparing and storing it in the fridge so when the time comes all we have to do is just cook it or heat it. here are the decorations my cousins did…
Can’t wait to see how this ramadan 2020 is gonna go about.
March 28 Saturday
4:20pm
Quarantine day ??? I’ve lost count. I did not know it was going to be this boring staying home. all those time I wished to stay home and not go out with my mom I take it back no way in hell I’m going to say that again.
My family gets together every weekend , we went from that to being trapped in the house doing nothing. we still FaceTime but its not the same. we play bored games on face time with is fun for a bit but turns into a downier after a little while. what can I tell you, theres nothing interesting no more its like my life is in this loop that repeating its self.wake up ,eat ,sleep , walk up ,eat, sleep.
omg the food brooooo I know some you love home made food and yes I do too but when your the one cooking it every single day hell no. Breakfast ,Lunch and Dinner kill me please. I swear when this quarantine S**** ends I’m gonna order take out for a month. matter of fact no I’m gonna eat out everyday for a month.
March 29 Sunday
5:16pm
My dad just asked me to get get him pizza form the pizzeria near my house with out telling my mom. so got dresses and told my mom I was going to the neighbors for a bit. I went out and when I got there my luck, they were closed -_- bummer all this work for nothing. so I went home when I was telling my dad my mom overheard us talking she starting laughing and said this what happened when you go behind my back. so she decided to make home made pizza. we made three pies two for us and 1 for the neighbors
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March 30 Monday
12:50pm
I can’t believe I’ve lasted this long with out Starbucks its been since we last had physical classes. at least the Dunkin near my house is still open I’ve gotten caramel lattes 4 times since I’ve been in house arrest so far, and no I didn’t go out my neighbors got it for me they can live without ice coffees lol so I just ask them to get me one on there way.
today my brother got me those glass Starbucks Frappuccinos that you buy anywhere and a muffin. that was the closes I came to a Starbucks drink … I don’t really like them that much but its better than nothing. 
March 31 Tuesday
Today was literally homework day. I woke up at 10:50 made breakfast cleaned the house then chilled for a while, then at 2:00 I started my bio homework and believe me when I tell you I’m not done. from 2:00 to 7:00 all I did was a stupid graph.
The professor gave us this complicated piece of shit graph for no damn reason that took me and two other girls in our group the whole day but at least we finished it and all that’s left is the conclusion
APRIL 1 Wednesday
Every year on this day my friends and I used to have the time of our lives pranking our families for April fools.we would literally FaceTime to show each other the reactions of our family members. by the end of the day I would have scared all of my family members but my dad. I never got him its like no matter what I did he doesn’t even flinch, ugh which gets me sooo annoyed. but that’s besides the point because today is April 1, Wednesday April fools and it feels like a lazy Sunday. my family is all over, some are laying on there beds and some are sleeping and I’m the only one hopping around the house trying to find something to do. I’ve never felt this bored in my entire life 🙁 🙁 and to top it all the weather was so pretty today 🙁 🙁
#corona sucks 
April 2 Thursday
okay lets see its 10:00pm I’m sitting on my bed trying to recall any stories or anything intersecting that’s worth telling but nope nada nothing lol that’s my sisters name is NADA anyways ooo yes my mom and I made cake today and it was delicious sooooo good here ill insert a picture of it y’all can drool over it hahahaha lol im weird…. #when boredom strikes
FRIDAY April 3
…. nope still nothing its still boring its 12:02 my family is getting ready to go to the masque to pray jum3ah yeah no, were tired of this quarantine sh*** were going today gotta go byeeeeeee
I don’t remember if I read Anne franks” Diary Of A Young Girl “in high school but, as I read it now it sounds a lot like “Incidents in life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs . I really enjoyed reading that book I felt like I was living it in her words, I didn’t want it to end. so when I started reading Anne franks diary it was my surprise to hear her talk about what happened to her and her jewish family during the nazi days. Jacobsen wrote about slavery and Anne Frank wrote about the nazis two different areas yet overmuch alike.
while reading Anne franks diary I noticed that she used a character named kitty to treat her diary as if she were writing to a friend. I thought that was really clever of her, She started writing in her diary because she had no one to confide in so her diary was her friend in a way.I also couldn’t help but realize how she found the brightness in every situation despite the hurtful condition she was in. Even though she isn’t in the greatest , she finds something good. For example, she said “As long as you look can fearlessly up into the heavens, as long as you know that you are pure within, and that you will still find happiness. Anne spends most of her life in a terrible time when Jews were persecuted; yet, her belief in the goodness of people is amazing. She states several times in her journal, even when the family is in hiding from those who want to kill them, that she still believes that people are inherently good. maybe its her positivity that’s most memorable theme in her writing it brings the upside to writing/situations. I loved how her hope and love for god and her family helped her become a stronger person, it made her words speak from the heart not just words written on a paper.
March 24 :Day 1 CAESAR’S BAY, NEW YORK
5:10pm
Dear Diary,
Today Is the 3rd day on quarantine honestly I don’t know what to feel about this anymore I have a whole load of emotions going on. feel like I’m missing something but I don’t know what it is. 5:20pm I’m sitting on bed with my pink furry blanket on, just finished doing some chemistry homework which was sooooooo annoying. I don’t even know if the answers are correct but to hell with it my head is killing me from reading too much science. As I sit there wondering what’s next I get that same feeling again. what is it ? I tell my self I try to remember if I’m missing something but nothing comes to mind, enough of this thinking mumbo jumbo I hear my mom calling gotta go byeeeeee
FURRY BLANKET
I just had to come back and write this my sister is soo bored with her life right now she’s talking to ALEXA telling her she’s so bored and that my dad took away her phone I couldn’t stop laughing #quarantine
Alexa
DISCLAIMER: If you haven’t noticed by now I really love the color pink. my whole room is pink, but not the kids kinda of pink its classy and elegant.
MARCH 25 Day 2:
I was in my biology online class today at 10 am, very boring all my professor did was literally read off the slides I could’ve done that on my own time instead of waking up and listening to him read.I was really sleepy I couldn’t keep my eyes open I was up till 2 yesterday. all because Im so hooked on this show called “Kosem Sultan.” its about this Turkish king and his wife named Kosem, how they battled everyone around them for wanting the crown, they killed everyone who gets in their way anyways back to the class. to honest I wasn’t gonna read the slides I’m just saying I could. I just wanted to sleep.
It was 10 min till class ending when a student asked the professor about an email CUNY sent out to everyone about online classes closing from march 27 to April 2. that’s when I really opened my eyes because as much I like the whole online classes thing I don’t to wake up at 8 for them .I was so happy to hear that I. got up dancing finally I can sleep till 12 in the afternoon like the rest of my family what a relief to top this news that same student added that spring break was gonna be held from April 8 to April 10 three more days the professor told her what r they crazy why don’t they just close school for the rest of the semester who ever “THEY “are we all started laughing. He said that there wasn’t gonna be time to do actual work or assignments. he mad a good point actually but who cares at the moment we just want to sleep .
THE EMAIL
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So last night around 12am I went on webwork to see if my math professor uploaded the quiz and when I went on it I accidentally opened it. I went back real quick at the time I thought it was fine and didn’t count but when I went on just now 5:30 pm, It had said that my time ran out and that it was closed 🙁 . I’m so bummed right now I emailed the professor to open it but she hasn’t replied yet . lets just hope she emails me back and open it because I have her in the morning at 8:00 sharp so fingers crossed.
March 26
10:00am
update I just had my math class and I wasn’t the only one having trouble with the quiz so the professor finally announced that although webwork won’t let her re-open the quiz she’s still gonna help us out by adding another quiz this week and cancel the other one and foe the people that didn’t have trouble shell just take the highest grade.
there is a downside to this I tried taking the quiz 3 times after it closed which is wired because it already closed I don’t know why it would allow me to open it three more times anyways that dropped my over all grade from 100% to 80% . I told her about it she said shell see if she can remove them but she droughts it but at the end of the semester she just not count them. but I just have this felling inside me that’s really annoying I just want it gone it messed up my whole grading system.d
I went home after our last class and I told my parents they might cancel our face to face classes and my make them online classes. my mom was thrilled she was like I can do all the house work from now on -_- my dad was was like okay good so I don’t need to buy you a metro card any more -_- I was like this is not what I thought you guys were gonna say.however I was actually happy that they canceled them because ramadan is right around the corner and I was worried how I was gonna deal with staying up late. for those of you who down know what ramadan is, we fast from 4am to 8pm but we have this looooong prayer at the mosque an hour after “Iftar” breaking our fast. we basically finish at 11. with all of this and 8 am classes the whole week I did not know how I was gonna pull thru . so when they announced classes were canceled I was relieved.
with this corona virus spreading by the minute is getting overwhelming since school stopped Ive been out almost every single day and so far I haven’t seen people dropping in the middle of the road and none that look like they had the virus symptoms. so I don’t know where these people are lol its not like I want them to so I can see them or anything but I’m just saying how it is near my house. when they announced that all stores were closing I was panicking but then I ready that deliveries were still open, as long as Starbucks is open then I have no problem with that. you can tell that Im not worried about this virus I don’t know why but Im just not my older brother is though he checks if temperature every hour. my aunt too she has the news on alerts popping up every second driving her crazy I told my self heel no I will not be like that Im gonna be cautious yeah but if its meant to be then its meant to be. anyways so I just finished my first online class now I’m just chilling drinking my caramel ribbon crunch from Starbucks while waiting for my parents to wake up.=)
It’s been a little hectic in my house, all they talk about is this corona virus but its just talk we’re not worried yet!! Ive noticed so many people get scared when a person coughs, it like when they cough it’s the end of the world. I on the other hand am not worried, I don’t know why but I feel like this is Ebola all over again social media made it go crazy aside from all the people that died of course but in the end here we are still continuing with our lives . I’m not heart less or anything like that I just have really strong believe and faith that eventually its gonna go away . my 17 year old sister on the edge of having OCD she washes her hands every time we hand her anything. but other then that everything is pretty much the same. there’s this phrase from the Quran my mom keeps reminding me ” لَّن يُصِيبَنَا إِلَّا مَا كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَنَا” it translates Nothing will happen to us except what God has written for us. keep your faith strong I hope that everyone not get this virus stay safe and don’t panic.
