Happy Eid
As the clock in the lecture hall struck 32 minutes past the hour of five, five guys in the first row each opened bottles of mineral water/soft drinks and took a sip. Thus ended the last day of Ramadan - the Muslim month of fasting - at LSE. There was a 10-minute break in the 2-hour class where some of them rushed to the prayer hall to offer the evening prayer. Had I been in any of the former places I have had the fortune of spending earlier Ramadans, classes would have finished hours ago and a table-ful of delicacies would have been laid out.
This has been my first "full" Ramadan in a non-muslim country. I shall admit that it has definitely not been easy. It can really be tiring and demanding, especially when in a big metropolis in the West you have to run to catch that bus in the stop or go hurry up and down the elevators in a metro station in order to get to your class in time. You really do need energy to keep you going all day (and tea/coffee to keep you awake on long days).
Happy Eid to all of you. And what does Eid mean, you ask? It means waking up early catching the tube to the station nearest to London central mosque and then head off classes at 9.
Salute to the folks who have been doing this every year all their lives.
This has been my first "full" Ramadan in a non-muslim country. I shall admit that it has definitely not been easy. It can really be tiring and demanding, especially when in a big metropolis in the West you have to run to catch that bus in the stop or go hurry up and down the elevators in a metro station in order to get to your class in time. You really do need energy to keep you going all day (and tea/coffee to keep you awake on long days).
Happy Eid to all of you. And what does Eid mean, you ask? It means waking up early catching the tube to the station nearest to London central mosque and then head off classes at 9.
Salute to the folks who have been doing this every year all their lives.
posted by Omer at 4:10 PM
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Now while some may say the right time for the last fasting day was 4.32 (due to the daylight saving time change a couple of days earlier), the clocks in the lecture theatre is still running on the old time. I wonder if someone will change the time in the clocks. It seems all clocks have still got the old time.
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