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hello..so yeah I read more of my book today...here's what went down:
Amal wore her hijab to the mall when she went with her mom to get cloth for new hijabs because she has decited to go along with her plan of wearin it full-time. When she was there, she got a lot of stares and looks and some comments, which she is hurt by, but can still handle it. In the food court, she saw some other women with hijabs on and she suddenly felt a strong connection to them. She felt really pure and true to her religion and they all smiled at eachother when she walked by, which made her feel really good about herself. When Amal was praying with her family in the morning when she was wearing her hijab she felt a new sense of her religion and felt really spiritual and calm.
Tia Tamos, Claire Foster, and Rita Mason all gave Amal crap when she first wore her hijab to school on the first day of the new semester. They would give her up-downs and snicker to one another. Amal was hurt by that, but I think that she felt worse when her crush, Adam, wouldnt even awknowledge her at school. She talked about how Adam is all sporty and pretty popular and how cute he was, despite of his slight unibrow and zits or something. Which is gross, but whatever floats her boat. I guess that everyone at her school knows that Adam wants to be a doctor when he grows up, so that means that he has to do good in all of his classes.
There was a lot of controvercy with her principal and letting Amal wear her hijab to school. Her new school she attends is very strict about uniform and equality between students and Amal's religion attire didn't fit into her school. She is the only one who wears it (how brave would you have to be to do that) and it was a big problem for a while. I thought that was really stupid because it's a part of a student's religion not a threat to the school. I thougtht that the principal was really rude to question if she could wear it or not. That's good that she let her, though.
K DONE.

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Hey. So I read more today and I'm now on page twenty nine. From what I read, I learned a lot more about the main character. I guess she is very fashionable, loves to shop,and speaks some Arabic words with her family. When she was younger she used to think her name was "Yaamal" because her parents say "ya" in front of her name, like "Oh Amal...". I thought that was weird haha. Some of Amal's friends were introduced and she is very nervous about what people will think when she decides to wear the hijab. The main event in what I read today was when she told her parents that she was thinking about wearing the hijab full-time. She expected them to be very proud of her and be happy that she is becoming more religious. Their reaction shocked her and made her very defensive. Amal's parents told her that they were worried that she wouldn't fit into her new school with it on. It kind of made me mad that they said that because I think parents should always be supportive of their child no matter what.
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Hi

<--thats my book

Amal Mohamed Nasrullah Abdel-Hakim's inspiration-->

<--example of a hajab

I havn't read over the weekend.

so..

My thoughts on this book are that it's pretty good right now even though I'm not too far into it. If i were Amal Mohamed Nasrullah Abdel-Hakim, I don't think I would be brave enough to start wearing the hijab if i never had before. I think that she should though, because her religion is very important to her and she wants to make this big step in her life. If I were Amal, I wouldn't choose to start wearing it one day during my teen years because I would have started earlier. I don't think that Amal should be so concirned about what other people think about her wearing her hijab full-time. If she's worried about her crush not liking her when she wears a hijab, then that is stupid. He should like her for who she is not what she is wearing. So that's dumb. He'll probaby end up liking her in the end of the book anyways...cause that's just what happens. &&Personally, I don't think that you need to wear a hijab or anything to be faithfull to your religion... you can be religious without wearing something on your head.

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Dear Blog Deal,
I'm on page twenty one now. Basicly what's happened so far is that she realized that she was ready to wear the higab because Rachel from friends inspired her. Amal (the main character) seems like a normal teenage girl and she is just trying to be accepted in her new school. She talked about her mom and dad in the beginning. Her mom is a clean freak who's obsessed with diets and stuff. She has the typical hate-hate relationship with her. Her dad's just kind of there. More about the higab...I guess she is trying to proove to herself that she's strong enough to wear this important badge of her faith, not just during times of worship. Her and her friends call wearing the higab all of the time being "full time". Her friends are shocked that she is thinking of making this big step for herself. So far i like the book better than I thought I would and it's acutally interesting from what I've read so far.
K DONE.

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The book i chose is called "Does My Head Look Big In This?" by Randa Abdel-Fattah. I have no idea how to pronounce her name but her last name sounds like fat to me. It has some girl on the cover and a bunch of polka dots and it looks rediculous. But the ladies at Barnes and Noble don't know what the heck they are talking about. So anyways. The author is Australian-born-Muslim-Palestinian-Egyptian-chocoholic I guess. And she campagins for Palestinian human rights and all that good stuff. She currently lives in Austrailia. The book is soposed to be about an Australian-Palestinian girl living in a suborb of Melboune. Which sounds pretty weird to me. Shes pretty worried about wearing the "hijab", or the Muslim head scarf, i geuss. It shows a deep sense of her faith and she makes a big decision about it. And I'm probably going to start it on Wednesday because i found another book I'd rather read now :). Okay. Love.

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