highlights of fatima's family birthday party:
1a.) as i was walking up to the house, fattie's small cousin who was outside playing looked up at me and said "why are you going to my house?".
1b.) an old lady i'd never seen before opened the door when i knocked. she didn't say anything, she just opened her arms to hug me. it was a precedent setting move. later i found out she was auntie's mother in law.
2.) fatima's bro mo, picking up appa and carrying him into the living room after giving him a right hook in the solar plexus
3.) appa himself pinched my cheek. this is cheek pinching event number 2. number 1 was on the occasion of getting the japan job. he also took a picture of fatima, priscilla and i, (cousin and uncle were in the background) then he said "that's sharp man!" it was the first time i heard appa say so much, let alone using slang such as 'man'.
3.) fatima practically made all the food stuffs in the very large spread of goods to eat. her speciality is the spinich feta pies and the tziki sauce. cousin ate about 50 of the items his own mummy made before it was even time for dinner. speaking of cousin's mummy, she hugged me and called me darling. i hugged a lot of people on this day.
4.) when appa and the others started warming up the vocal chords to start singing the tunes on the karaoke, many of the kids chose this time to make their way outside. fatima, priscilla and i went out on the guise of seeing the bunnies. the bunnies were called thumper and princess but that does not neccessarily reflect their genders, which remain a mystery at this time. brother and cousin and erin (brother's fiance) followed us out. priscilla was too scardy cat to enter the bunny yard. then she was to scardy cat to be outside the bunny yard on her own. thumper was evasive of brother but let fatima the birthday girl pick him up. she tried to hand him to me, but then he started frantically hopping in the air which was a sooprise to us and due to the said sooprise and a fear of hurting thumper like uncle accidentally hurt princess in a previou incident, thumper was released.
5.) we spoke of playing badmintons but the boys beat us to it. instead we sat at the picnic table and fatima began telling of 'the set up'. this was the first of the many installments of the telling due to interuptions for bithday party duties.
6.) fatima stood behind her birthday cake and we sang hapy birthday to her, then happy long life to you, then a non-english song, then we clapped in unison for every year of her long long life, and then innumerable pictures of different groupings of the people there were taken, most of them with little pria in them. after every single person there got a picture with fatima in her bridal indian outfit, then it was an uncle's turn which is a whole other story, one that salma took the time to tell me when priscilla was leaving. i thought i was getting in trouble, but no.
7.) the end of the story of the set up was told in aunty and uncle's room. much of the content having to do with the boccaccini salad and the waitresses' reaction to it.
ah..... i have to go. sorry man.
1a.) as i was walking up to the house, fattie's small cousin who was outside playing looked up at me and said "why are you going to my house?".
1b.) an old lady i'd never seen before opened the door when i knocked. she didn't say anything, she just opened her arms to hug me. it was a precedent setting move. later i found out she was auntie's mother in law.
2.) fatima's bro mo, picking up appa and carrying him into the living room after giving him a right hook in the solar plexus
3.) appa himself pinched my cheek. this is cheek pinching event number 2. number 1 was on the occasion of getting the japan job. he also took a picture of fatima, priscilla and i, (cousin and uncle were in the background) then he said "that's sharp man!" it was the first time i heard appa say so much, let alone using slang such as 'man'.
3.) fatima practically made all the food stuffs in the very large spread of goods to eat. her speciality is the spinich feta pies and the tziki sauce. cousin ate about 50 of the items his own mummy made before it was even time for dinner. speaking of cousin's mummy, she hugged me and called me darling. i hugged a lot of people on this day.
4.) when appa and the others started warming up the vocal chords to start singing the tunes on the karaoke, many of the kids chose this time to make their way outside. fatima, priscilla and i went out on the guise of seeing the bunnies. the bunnies were called thumper and princess but that does not neccessarily reflect their genders, which remain a mystery at this time. brother and cousin and erin (brother's fiance) followed us out. priscilla was too scardy cat to enter the bunny yard. then she was to scardy cat to be outside the bunny yard on her own. thumper was evasive of brother but let fatima the birthday girl pick him up. she tried to hand him to me, but then he started frantically hopping in the air which was a sooprise to us and due to the said sooprise and a fear of hurting thumper like uncle accidentally hurt princess in a previou incident, thumper was released.
5.) we spoke of playing badmintons but the boys beat us to it. instead we sat at the picnic table and fatima began telling of 'the set up'. this was the first of the many installments of the telling due to interuptions for bithday party duties.
6.) fatima stood behind her birthday cake and we sang hapy birthday to her, then happy long life to you, then a non-english song, then we clapped in unison for every year of her long long life, and then innumerable pictures of different groupings of the people there were taken, most of them with little pria in them. after every single person there got a picture with fatima in her bridal indian outfit, then it was an uncle's turn which is a whole other story, one that salma took the time to tell me when priscilla was leaving. i thought i was getting in trouble, but no.
7.) the end of the story of the set up was told in aunty and uncle's room. much of the content having to do with the boccaccini salad and the waitresses' reaction to it.
ah..... i have to go. sorry man.
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