So I have been telling this story a lot lately and I thought the 3 followers of this blog would like to hear it BEFORE the big Thanksgiving Point day re-cap that Lamiaa Hadi said she was writing by Saturday - she didn't of course say WHAT Saturday, so stay tuned...
Anyway... my Gina Larson - who I could say SO much about here and I never really know what to call her so I am settling today on MY Gina Larson - sounds good. She invited the silly monkeys Seema, Lamiaa and Gabriel to do a presentation at her LDS Young Women's/Men's group at their Wednesday activity. Now I don't worry one tiny bit about these presentations as they have done MANY. I did get some traditional treats to share and that is about it. Of course being a slacker mom, I have never stayed for a presentation and this time I did.
Gabriel started off the presentation talking about Palestine and how close he lives to Bethlehem and showing pictures of his city etc. He talked about his experience in Utah and what all he has done and did a very nice job of showing who he is and his values and culture.
Then he started talking about American teens / students perception of all of them as exchange students as they are from the Middle East or for Miaa a covered Muslim woman - well he explained that many people think they are ALL terriorists and they are NOT. He said what do we look like we are carring bombs and going to blow up S*&%. I secretely hoped that the audience of young adults thought with his accent he said ships. I think they got it though.
In the car I hit him - ever so gently on the shoulder - and said, Gabriel, you don't say S*&% in church. What the heck (or close to that) were you thinking. He says, I don't know it just came out.
We all giggled and said the only thing Gabriel has in his backpack is chocolate, not bombs!!
The moral of the story is - you decide.
Photos from the night.
Anyway... my Gina Larson - who I could say SO much about here and I never really know what to call her so I am settling today on MY Gina Larson - sounds good. She invited the silly monkeys Seema, Lamiaa and Gabriel to do a presentation at her LDS Young Women's/Men's group at their Wednesday activity. Now I don't worry one tiny bit about these presentations as they have done MANY. I did get some traditional treats to share and that is about it. Of course being a slacker mom, I have never stayed for a presentation and this time I did.
Gabriel started off the presentation talking about Palestine and how close he lives to Bethlehem and showing pictures of his city etc. He talked about his experience in Utah and what all he has done and did a very nice job of showing who he is and his values and culture.
Then he started talking about American teens / students perception of all of them as exchange students as they are from the Middle East or for Miaa a covered Muslim woman - well he explained that many people think they are ALL terriorists and they are NOT. He said what do we look like we are carring bombs and going to blow up S*&%. I secretely hoped that the audience of young adults thought with his accent he said ships. I think they got it though.
In the car I hit him - ever so gently on the shoulder - and said, Gabriel, you don't say S*&% in church. What the heck (or close to that) were you thinking. He says, I don't know it just came out.
We all giggled and said the only thing Gabriel has in his backpack is chocolate, not bombs!!
The moral of the story is - you decide.
Photos from the night.
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