¡Ramadán Mubarak desde Buenos Aires!
Sep 14th, 2007, 11:47 am
The ninth month of the Islamic calendar, a.k.a. Ramadan, started Wednesday night in Buenos Aires. My first Ramadan outside of the US, and my first Ramadan without any family to enjoy it with. Nonetheless, I’m excited to see how Argentines celebrate this holy month.
But I’m even more excited to see how they celebrate Eid down here. Word on the street is that girls show up at mixed Eid parties wearing tank tops and miniskirts. How interesting. You don’t see that in the US!
Muslim life around the world fascinates me.
Plans for Ramadan:
- Read the Qur’an for at least ten minutes a day.
- Log into facebook for no more than once a day. Believe me, this is gonna take a lot of self-control. I would love to just deactivate my account, but it’s a good way to keep in touch with family and friends.
- Not listen to music during the daylight hours.
- Study hard.
- Not use any chat programs (e.g. AIM, MSN, Gmail Chat, etc.).
- Check my e-mail no more than twice a day.
- Spend quality time with friends.
- Take advantage of the fact that many more Muslims go the mosque to collect data for my research project about Argentine Muslims.
- Not idle around.
Perhaps I should limit my blogging to twice a week or something… But I just have to let everybody know how life is in this part of the world for someone from such a unique background. I mean, how many other Bangladeshi American Muslims that were born in Salt Lake City and raised in Oklahoma, Florida, and Illinois and majoring in sociology and political science do you know that live in Argentina? Zero.