First Ramadan in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Salam Alykum its been a long time since I have last posted a blog and thought it would be a good idea to start back up especially with Ramdan just around the corner well actually tomorrow!  most of my Muslim life I have spent Ramadan and Eid in America so being in a Muslim country I think should be an rather interesting experience.... I'm for one very excited for Ramadan for the past few years I have been unable to fast due to my very...

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Allah is good to me!

I was a little lost for words on how I should begin this blog, I wasn't sure if I should start with my first visit to Makkah or talk about my new adventures here in the KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)... It has been 3 months since I have arrived in Saudi Arabia I am always asked have you experienced any culture shock yet? my response..."not really" the first culture shock I had was walking down the stairs from the airplane instead of...

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Family weekend event

First of all can I say what a weekend! it has been a very busy and very productive weekend and week. This week was the week of my sister in law's wedding and there where so many preparations before hand that I am literally exhausted, a week before my sister in laws wedding I had spent a week in Jeddah which is 8 or 9 hours away from the city I'm staying in "Abha"  and stayed with my older sister in law that lives there and spent...

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My WTH moments???

It has been a month so since I have arrived here in Saudi Arabia every experience has been rather interesting  and some  experiences have been like "really"????? Since my arrival I have been dealing with adjusting to the climate and constantly getting sick (apparently to the new bacteria's)  but for the entire time I have been here I have not been able to keep anything down I didn't want to go to the hospital...

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first Saudi wedding

So I finally attended my first wedding ceremony not the actual wedding but the contract signing making it official that they are married after that they normally hold a ceremony... I think I would have enjoyed the wedding ceremony if I haven't been so sick with "climate change flu" and respiratory infection other then that I think that the wedding ceremony was absolutely beautiful masha'allah... Firstly I was under a...

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