new location

we moved to our new location, it's
http://ahmad-banjar.blogspot.com/
come over and stop by we have alot of cool stuff over there :p

before the Fall starts

well ... tonight was the last night for us of total freedom because tomorrow school will start, which is not that bad after all because i am about to get sick of not doing anything productive.

the main thing i did during this 10 days break was moving to my new apartment, i used to live at the dorm which was an amazing experience for me, and sometimes i still think about moving back there because in there you're never by your self, you're surrounded by people whether you like it or not and sometimes it gets really annoying, especially if you have to study or do something by your self.
the place where i live right now is really cool and its not that far away from the campus and it not that small but i would say that its cozy and i live with a really cool guy and he's my best Saudi friend over here his name is Farooq
the thing i dont like about moving out is we have to buy everything, furnitures, dishes, TV basically everything which take time and money but having your own place is a really satisfying feeling.

i did pretty well at the class i took during the summer and if you're interested i took accounting information system (AIS) but i could've done better if i didn't go to Panama beach at the middle of the semester, i dont regret going there i had so much fun i at that time i was so stressed up and i was about to break down so it was at right time but the thing is when i was there there was this project due on Monday and i thought that i'll be able to do it in Panama but i couldn't because i have busy having fun so i screwed up and i got a really bad grade on that project.

and one of the reasons why i am excited about school is i'll see all my friends who were away for the summer.

one of the things i enjoyed this break was the welcome week on campus, which is a life concert and free goodies and all that fun stuff to welcome to freshmen, i wish if our universities have something like that.

thats it for now take it easy and keep coming

US updates

its been a while and i really wanted to up date but right now i am really busy with classes and school.

well i finished the English program like 3 months ago and i finished my first real college class 2 weeks ago and it was individual taxation and it was one of the most difficult classes i ever took during my studying years if its not the most difficult one.
i was suppose to learn almost everything about the American taxation system in one month because its summer classes right now and summer classes are way much shorter than regular classes, but thank got i made it with a B

and my friends and i were suppose to go to panama city beach this weekend but yesterday i signed a lease for a new apartment and my roommate and i paid so much money that we canceled the trip but hopefully we'll go after this semester finish.

i really need a break because i feel that i forgot how to have fun because nothing much goin on here in Tuscaloosa and school are so demanding that sometimes i study all day long none stop, i feel that i turning into a machine.

i am so excited about next semester because the fall semester is the best semester here because there's alot of thing will take place in fall, the football games although i really dont know anything about football but people here are obssesed with football, whereever you would go there must be something related to football, the other thing i'll start studying Portuguese.
the reason why i chose Portuguese is i really love Brazil and i really wanna go there one day and the Brazilian people are so much fun to be around, they know how to have fun.

i am exited and at the same time worried about Ramadan, because this will be the first Ramadan for me away from my family beside it'll come at the middle of the fall semester but its a new experience.

i think thats all i have right now. take care everybody and i miss you all back home

it's a life changing experience

yesterday was a life changing experience for me, its a day i'll always remember and its something that i'll talk about for a while.

the story is i have this American friend and she's like one of my first and one of my closest friends over here, and we hang out together like almost everyday but for the couple past days we hadn't,
i just hadn't heard from her and while i was having my coffee with my friend she just popped into my head and i was about to call her after i finish my coffee but she called me before i do and she said i wanna tell you something because i dont want you to hear it from someone else, i converted to Islam last Thursday, after i heard that i just went blank and i couldn't say anything and i felt my tears streaming down my eyes because I've never been to this kind of situations so the only thing that i said was congratulation and I'll give you a call later.

and about an hour after that some of my friends and I and her were hanging out and we all were talking about it and at a moment i realized that she has to change almost her entire life style and she would has to sacrifice alot of things that she used to take for granted and that must be hard for any one while i am a Muslim by nature and i grew up to be a Muslim and i do alot of things that i am not supposed to do and i am not welling to do these small sacrifices while she's welling to do more than i am, and that just caught off guard and made me thing about my self and the way that i am living life

i am not saying that i am a different person right now but its i am rethinking about the way i am living this life and about my priorities in life

i am really sorry

Sam... yesterday i just realized something really important, something i should have realized along time ago, i found out that you are the most beautifully, the most amazing, the greatest girl i ever knew,

i know i haven't been the guy you deserve since i left to the US. i wasn't there for you whenever you needed me and i always gave you some lame excuse.

i admit and i am not proud of what i did but in some point i lost faith in us, but you never did and you never lost faith in me.

you proved to be that you're a really strong girl and you never give up easily, and i love that about you so much.

Sam I miss you so much and all i ask for right now is just one moment with you, i miss all the good times we had together, all i can think about right now is you and all the good moments we had together and all the crazy little adventures we had together :p

now i know more than ever that you're the girl i wanna spend my entire life with, and i would be so stupid to loose you, i am so lucky to have you in my life.

Sam i love you so much and i am really sorry for all times i wasn't there for you and for all the crap you gone though because of me and i love you for not loosing faith in me while in a moment i did.

i love you and from now on i'll try to be the man you deserve whose not the man i am right now but i promise you i'll try my best to change.

love you

i got my ass kicked by a girl in a karate class yesterday :s
but the thing is she's an experienced fighter and everyone knows that its a bad idea to miss with that girl

free food :p

today i did something i never thought i would do .

i stood in a line for a free pizza and a free soda. and the friend who was with me refused to do that with me and said that i would rather to buy my food than to take it for free.

and after i got my cheese pizza and my pepsi he thought well i am hungry right now and Ahmad got a pizza and nothing happened to him so he got into the line and got his free pizza to :p

there's alot of things we consider unexceptionable but people here see it as a normal thing like the idea of getting free food i dont think i would do that in Saudi Arabia or any other Arabic country but i dont mind doing it here in the US.