Dracula

               "This book is really awesome,Hazera. Love it", my sister praised. One of my friend Mitu gave me the bangle version of Dracula. It was so cool story. Then I told my sister about that book. My sister just frowned at me. Then she told me, "C'mon Hazera, you know very well that I don't like that kind of scary books , "It's scary, but pretty cool. I promise , you'll love this story", I said.
               Actually my sister doesn't like scary stories or movies. Because when she trying to sleep, she can't. She sees  all the frenetic, dangerous, wild creatures are coming to sleep with her, they  are loughing at her,  triyng to pull her hair. Even though she got sleep, she woke up at midnight, shouted and screamed like all those nightmare creatures are trying to bite her. And she makes us fell afraid too.
               Anyway, when I suggested  her to read Drucula, she refused. But my borther and I were so pleasent as we read a really wonderful book. Our over and over praising made my sister pretty curious about the book, Dracula. Then after a few days, she asked me to bring this book. As she read Dracula, she was getting pretty exiting. She asked me, "O Hazera, What happend to Luna at last? Did she got married to Arthur? Does Dracula turned Luna into a vampire?". "Oh, well, finish reading this book and you'll get your answers!" I said.

           The funny thing is after finishing reading Dracula, my sister was very pleasent. " It is really awsome. It's scary but it fulfill my heart", she said. But at night, I was sleeping, suddenly I heared a small sound. It seems somebody is criyng. I opened my eyes. Oh, God! it was my sister. She was calling me, because she really need to use the restroom, but she feels scared! " Please wait infront of the door, untill I return", my sister requested me!

Breaking Cultural Rules

            "I'll go to Bangladesh in coming July", my sister said, who is 20 years old now. "What the heck are you saying Moriom? Why do you need to go there"? my mom asked. Then my sister replied that she loves a boy, Arshad khan and she wanted to marry that boy. My mom looked like she just drank a bottle of bitter squash juice.
           Actually a few months ago, my younger sister & I started to discover that Moriom has a relationship with someone, because she take the only home phone in our house into her room and talk with someone when our parents are not at home! We were very suspicious about her. But we didn't tell anything to our parents. We didn't want to give them too much thinking to increase their headache.
           Anyway, in order to our culture, our parents always seek & select our spouse. We have to marry their selected person, whether we like it or not. It is one of the way to show respect to our parents. However, you can find  barely some kids who didn't obey their parents. It seems my sister Moriom is one of them!
           Now, my mom is pertty disappointed about her. No one have the courage in our house to tell this to my dad. He can do anything, when he is angry. We all are so afraid of him, he remains angry most of the time of a day. I think he'll be so disappointed too. Only God knows what is going to happen in next july!!

                                       

Christmas Vacation

               I got about four weeks of vacation for the Christmas Eve. It wasn't so bad. I got a lot of leisure time to play, to read storybooks. I was very happy during this vacation; because I didn't have to get up very early in the morning, get ready for school. Another thing I was very glad about was I didn't have any homework to do!
              First few days I was sleeping a lot. I woke up about 9/10 o'clock. I really enjoyed those days. I played "City Ville" in face book all day long. It made me very happy to be at home during lunch . My mom always made some delicious Indian food every day for the lunch. But gradually I thought myself that I may need to do a little job to provide myself, so that I don't have to irritate my brother or sister for money for buying my personal stuff.
           So took my younger brother with me as my company and got out from home to find out a job. We went to north Lamar and I brought application from different shops. I also applied in online. But I didn't find a job yet!
            Anyway, as my family & I are Muslim, we don't celebrate christmas. But my mom is really a very interesting woman. She gave us money to shop for Christmas! We four brother and sister went to Kohl's, Ross, Old Navy and Wal-mart for shopping, three days before Christmas. It was really interesting. We had our lunch at McDonald's. We also bought Christmas cards for our friends and some gifts for our relatives.
             As Christmas went, I got bored to be at home.  I was pretty eager to come back to school. I wanted to meet with my friends, My teachers. In that time I really understood that how much I love my school!

I Dreamed My Grandma Last Night

         Last night I dreamed my grand ma! I saw it was Eidday. We all were so busy to decorate our house nicely. My mom was making Semai, Noodles, Vuna-Khichuri, Halim, Custerd and other types of delicious foods for the guests and also for us. While my sister and I finised decorating our house, my mom asked us to help her. My father and my three brothers ate their deserts and went to the mosque for praying Eid namaz. Meanwhile, My mom finished her cooking and asked us to take our shower. We three sisters took our showers one after one. Then we dressed very well and we put some make-up on our faces and made ourselves looking very pretty! When my father and my brothers came back from the mosque, my mom decorated the table with foods and we all set together to take our breakfast.
        Suddenly someone knocked the front door. My younger brother opened the door for the stranger. It was my grandma with her pretty smiling face. We jumped from the table to hug her. We saw that she also broght some gifts for us which were into her hands. We requested her to sit to take the breakfast with us. We were telling her that how much happy we were to see her on this very day!
         At this time, I woke up from sleeping. Then I told my mom what I dreamed. She told me, "I know, you  like your grandma so much. May be you thought about her before sleeping. That's why you dreamed about her."
          But I was still very happy to see her, even though it was my dream. I love you grand ma!

My First Thanksgiving Day

                On 11/25/10 I celebrate My first Thanksgiving day. I was so happy because we got five days vaccation for the Thanksgiving day. I got a lot of leisure time to play, to sleep.I had pretty fun during this break. Anyway, it was so good to taste different type of food that didn't taste ever. These foods are different from our Indian food. Most likely, Indian foods are spicy. I always like to eat spicy food! So that, first time I thought that Thanksgiving foods would be boaring without no spice on it! But I was completely wrong! These foods were great! I taste turkey, mass potato, makarony with chesse and other foods( I don't know their name) for the first time. Among all of these, I like the Turkey most!
              My younger uncle, Kibria Bhuiyan is the manager of Luby's. He brought these delicious food from there, the night before Thanksgiving day. He invited us at his house for the lunch.
                 All our relatives and cousins and all of my family members went there during lunch time. We all gossiped, joked at each other as we have seen us together  after a long time. We all eat together and had a lot of fun! We really had a great lunch with these unknown thanksgiving food!

My Weekend

                   My weekends are always the same. Watching televisions, doing homework, helping my mom, cleaning my bedroom, playing cards with my yonger brother and sister or reading story books. At first time , I liked the way what I have to do all over the weekend. Because when I was in Bangladesh, I didn't have that much time to play or opprtunity to read story books. If I want to read the story book I have to hide the book very cleverly. Because if my dad realized that  I was raeding sroty book, he would scolded me or bite me with a stick. It doesn't mean my father is cruel! All the parents thought that reading story book is wasting time, we can memorize our text book instead of reading story book, so that we can do  very  well in the examination!

                However,gradually it gets boar to me. Always doing the same thing seemed very monotonius to me. I started to thingking what can I do to get rid of these monotony works. Then a few days ago, my cousin named Nazmul suggested me that I can goo to the www. freerice.com and play a game which can help me to learn new  english vocabulary words or it can help me with my science subjects. He told me it's fun game to play. He also suggested me that I can sing up in Face book by thye internet. Theose were a great idea to spend my leisure time. Now, I learned new things from freerice.com and I like to chat with my in facebook! Now sometimes I chat with other people that I don't know. But the only problem is there are many false account in facebook, which can irritate you if you're not careful. But I also think it's a g way to know other people.

      

   

A Memorable Eid than Ever

            Mily is the youngestchild of her parents. She always wish to get what she wants at any cost. As the Ramadan goes, eid is knocking at the door. Every body is pretty exiting about eid shopping. One of her friend already bought her dresses for eid and some of her friends were started to plan how would they celebrate  their eid.
              " Dad, wher we'er going to shopping mall? Eid is coming"! Dad just moved his head a little. then mom said, "Honey, don't worry. We'll go next weekend." But Mily wasn't happy, she gasped. "I want a really beautiful dress, which would be the finest dress among all of my friends." Her parents know Mily's type. they just looked at each other.
              Two days later, they went to the shopping mall. Mily took a long period of time to chose her dress. " Honey, I know you liked it, but it's pertty expensive. You should know our condition. I already made the budget for this month. You have to chose another one. I'm extremely sorry." Mily looked so much disappointed. Her large eyes filled with water. After a while her mom said to her dad, " we shouldn't dissappoint her. This eid comes once a year. We'll redo our budget." Mily's dad wasn't very happy but he bought that dress for mily to make her feel good. Within five minutes, they stepped down into the 1st floor. Mily suddenly saw another dress which is pretty than her dress. then she told her parents to buy that dress too. her father stared at her. " We can't provide two expensive dresses for you!"   
              But it's mily! she didn't want to hear anything else. She cried the whole way. When they got home they saw somebody was sleeping  in the empty space which is infront of their house. Her father shouted to the strangers. There was an old woman and her two grand child. They were shiking and looked so scared.
Her mom asked them why they came here. The old woman answered them that they came from village in searching of livelihood. " Their parents are died", the old lady pointed to those two little girls.
             Mily felt very sorry for them. She thought herself, " how do they live without their parents? They don't even have foods, clothes!"
             Suddenly she realized that God give us a great gift when we born and it's our parents! They are like permanent shelter over us! She also realized that there are lot of people in the world who doesn't have food to eat, no home to live.
             She felt very regreat that she did one-two hours ago. She went to her mom and shouted," Mom! Dad! I don't need two dresses for Eid. I'll  share my other dresse with these two little girls. Eid is for every body to celebrate."