Monday, September 14, 2009

class reading # 4

2.0
hours
163-252

The war has come at last. Know one can come across the board with out some reason and even then its really hard to have a good enough reason for the grads.But for some reason, the ended up letting Annay and on of their brothers friend to pass over to go look for his family. When they went over the ended up find more then his family they found some of Annay family so they ended up taking them all back to home. Their home become a refugee camp. People would just come stay for a while and then left.
In April 1991 their father come home, brought something that Annay would ever like and would die trying to get out of it. After being home for two mouths he came to Annay had said that a men has come to him with a proposal of Marriage and he had offered him her hand. Annay said no right off the bat. that she didn't want to marry a stranger. but her father would not listen to her. He said that he is not a stranger he is their cousin, Osman Mahamud. She had no say so when it come to the time to leave to Frankfurt, she told her sister that she would stay with him
but when it came the right time she would leave him. her mother over heard this and say if she can't promise that she would stay with Osman Mahamud then she wouldn't give her blessing and say good-bye to her. So when she got on the plane her Mother had her back to her the whole time.
When the plane landed her was meet by Mursal, she spent weeks there, and then a day come when it felt right to leave before her husband come there to get her to talk her to her new home.
so that night she told the people she was staying with that she was going to go see an old friend before her husband got there to take her away.
when she arrived in Holland she was meet by her dear friend Fadumo, the next day Annay set down with Fadumo and told her everything that she wanted to leave in Holland in the refugee camps. Fadumo pleaded with her to not to do it. but no one could change her mind. Annay went to Zwolle to ask to become a refugee. she had to go with a number of thing to be able to become a refugee. so in the mean time she leaved in the refugee camp waiting for an answer. she leaved with to girl and they did not understand at all why she covered herself. They said that it did make a differences at all so she did a little experiment she did wear her head cover. And she was that no men came up to her ask for sex they acted as the always did. By the time the said that she could become a refugee she had stopped wearing the cover all together and was now swimming in a swim suit and was wearing shot shorts.
One night Osman Mahamud, came to her door telling her to get all her thing and come home. but she did not want to come home so she said no. Mahamud called the tolka to fit all of this mess. When they got there, they asked her a lot of questions of why she did not want to stay with him and she just told them that she did not want to marry him and that was it. So after a while the say that they respect her answer and that every one need to respect it as well. She was no longer married to Osman Mahamuch anymore. but she had to tell her father, she wort to him that night and 3 weeks later got a lettler saying that for her to burn in hell.
Annay end up going to school and passing with a's. After that she went to colloge to study political science. Annay started working as a interpreter on the side trying to get monye saved up. Annay applied for a two-bedroom falt so that she and her friend could leaved together. 3 weeks after she applied she got a call say that she had got the falt and that week they moved in.
Annay began makeing friend and doing thing that she would have never done when she beleived in god.
In Januray 1994 her sister Haweya come to leave with her. things had gotten really bad with their family and Haweya had gotten abortion. So she left before their father could have done something. Annay friend ended up moving out and Haweya took her place. After spending 4 weeks with Haweya she started to notice that something was wrong. Haweya wasn't acting like herself. but after Haweya moved out she became herself no time
in March 1996 Annay moved into Geesk's student houseing, and there she ment Marco. they ended up moveing in together.
By 1997 Haweya was not doing well she started seeing thing talking to people that were not there and one night she started throwing herself against the wall and floors. People ended having to smash down the door and taking her away in a straitjacket
When I was reading i thought that everything was going to be alright and then her sister goes crazy what is Annay going to have to handle next

Friday, September 11, 2009

class reading # 3

2.5
hours
67-163


When a girl becomes of age they go though a surgery. In their religion they think that going thought with it make them pure, so when Annay and hawneya and their old bother Mahad became of age they went though with the surgery. the surgery is they cut of their genitals and sow up the whole. but they leave a little place for ligid to come out. Their grandmother was the one that made this happen. Their mother and father do not believe in it, they think that it is barbaric. But they couldn't do anything about it though because mother was of on a trip and father was in jail. After that day Hayneya her little sister was never the same again
One day their mother came home so happy, happier then she has been in a long time. They all new that this meant that father got out of jail. On one would say anything to them, because they wanted them to be dumb if the wrong people came asking. So later on that year they moved to go meet their father and live together as a family. They ended up going to Ethiopia, there they meet they father.
After living there for a while the ended up moving to Kenya. Their mother hated the idea the people in Kenya were unbelievers. but she had to do has her husband say, that is they law. they father enrolled them all in school. Annay wasn't really good at getting good grades and for that she got beaten by the teacher and her mother wouldn't do anything about it. In her eyes she deserved it. Thing were going well until there father went out for the night and didn't come home until the next week. After one more month their mother grew tired of it and told him if he went out that door that he should never come back and he did.
When their father had been gone for about 4 years Mahad dropped of the deep end, no one knew what to do they him. So they decide to send him to their father. After Mahad had left things got worse Annay started get beaten by her mother worse and worse. she could never could do anything that made her mother happy it only made her mad and on top of that her took her and Hawnaye out of school and had a man teach them. One day she and her sister locked themself in the bathroom and wouldn't come out for school that day. They tried everything to get them out but they finally gave up. Annay and hawnaye came out of the bathroom when they thought that everyone was gone. Hawnaye left to hang out when friends and Annaye started cleaning the house, she didn't want to get beat for not cleaning but when she went out side to close the gate, her teacher gaped her by the hair, he had come back and he had help. After they had finshed they left her on the ground bleed and badly hurt. When her mother come back that night her started to beat her too for not cleaning the house. and that almost killed her. after that day her mother didn't beat her for 4 more years.
Thing were going all wrong her sister had stopped believing and now she was moving to be with their bother and father. so she was left to live with her mother and grandmother. During the month her sister was gone Annay became a deeper believe, but when it gets deeper into the months that Hawnaye was gone she started to question it a bet. When her sister come home she was so happy to Finally have her back, she missed her so much.
This book has so many things to learn. We get to see how people grew up and lived.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

class reading two

2.0
1-67

I'm reading a book called Infidel, its a true story about a little girl and her family and how her life was growing up. All i have read so far is, about her grandmother, mother and fathers live before she was born. And all the amazing events that have happened to her so far.

Her grandmother is the most interesting person she was taught hard work and not to let your guard down at any point. She had to marry an older man, Named Artan how was already married wife and one daught. she ran away the first ngiht and manged to get to her mother before Artan caught up with her. After that she went back with Artan to not disoner her faimly. she raised eight girls and one boy.

Her mother learned all the things that grandmother taught her when she was little. She learned that woman had to be on guard all the time to watch whats around, so to be raped, they would rather die then be raped because if you were you would bring disoner to the familys name. When she was about 15 years old she left the desert and went to Arabia to live with her stepsister khadija, like three years later her stepfather told her that man wanted to marry her. She had to say yes, i would not disobay her father. she hated the man right off, she had one boy with him named Muhammad. when her fahter did she got a divorce. later on she marryed Hirsi Magan how became the father of Mahad, Ayaan, and haweya. When Hirsi Magan when tooken to jail, gandmother came to live with them

her father Hirsi Magan he grow up in the northern desert, and was rasied by his bothers. He went to college in the united states, he marriyed a woman named maryan how had a daughter named ijaabo he wanted her to stay the and go to college , so she stayed and he went back home. He ended up being a teacher for ayaan mother, he later marriyed her and had Mahad, , Ayaan, and Haweya. When the gov. was overthrown the took him to jail.

Friday, August 28, 2009

class reading

2.5 hours
1-100


I'm reading To kill a Mockingbird, its the most interesting book that i have read so far. i thought that i would never pick up this book because i have heard so many thing from ether people, that is suck but it doesn't.
This book is full of laughs, secrets, death, sadness, gilt, right and wrong. The story is about a little girl named scout and the thing that happen to her and the people she loves. she has a lot adventures head of her in this book and a lot more sad time. I love how every thing in this book hocks together some how and the ending is amazing i love this book so much and I'm glad that i have finely read the book. A lot of people that haven't yet are missing out