Hi, i'm Sakinah. And it's Ramadan

Hi, I'm Sakinah.

I suppose if you're going to be reading my posts, we ought to get to know each other. Or, in this case, you can get to know me. I suppose I'll never really get to know the people who are reading my thoughts each week; but who knows. Maybe if you stumble across Coe one day, you can introduce yourself and we can have an awkward moment of you knowing me but me knowing nothing about you. Anyway.

I'm a senior here at Coe this year. Yep... final year. Provided I can get through the hardest course known to man-- Physical Chemistry. And with that, I should probably inform you that I am a Chemistry and Environmental Science major, with a potential minor in mathematics. No, I'm not sure what i was thinking when I signed up for this. Maybe a job.

Ramadan started just last Labor Day, on September 1st. For the first two days, I was traveling, so I was "exempt" from fasting, if you will. But as soon as school started, the fasting began. 

It's interesting going through the fasting process now that I'm in an apartment. In the past, I would wake up in the morning and have whatever i could fit into my tiny dorm fridge and whatever I could throw into the microwave. It wasn't bad; but it didn't have the home feeling that I was used to from Ramadans past. Nevertheless, this year is a lot better. I can wake up in the apartment, and be able to cook for myself, and for iftar, or the break fast, I don't have to rely on the cafeteria's hot meal hours (which end at 7, despite the fact that I can only start eating around 7:15, 7:30). I can now cook whatever meals I want, and be able to adjust my diet so that I'm getting what I want to eat.

The studying it harder, I'm not going to lie. I suppose this is probably because in the late afternoon you start to lose focus; that and in college, every student is busy 24/7, and when you have a cut back on your daily nutritional intake, there's an effect. It makes me wonder what it would be like if they actually did cut school to half days, if that would make a difference.

At this point, any adjustment in my favor would make a difference.