Dirt and Robots

       "I don't want to go" I say, holding on to my mom the night before moving into my senior dorm. "I didn't make you go, you chose this." My mom responds. I still continue to be nervous until we pack the car and head to Queens, a borough of New York City so our uncle can drive us up to move into my upstate school's dorm. We planned to leave a day earlier due to my uncle not being able to drive 3 hours straight upwards and 3 hours straight downward on the same day.  PAUSE! REWIND!      Where's my father? you may think. My father was doing a journey to Mecca in Saudi Arabia called Hajj (phonetically pronounced with the a pronounced as aw), or pilgrimage in Arabic. Unfortunately, this journey is incredibly expensive for many so there are two options: save up an insane amount or there is a cheaper version, called Umrah (Oom-raw). Umrah is also in Saudi Arabia, but it is a lot shorter than Hajj. FAST FORWARD! RESUME!       Anyway, goi...

 Hello everyone, Hidaya Syed here. Since our stats show that we have a lot of international readers, I wanted to bring attention on this blog that we are moving to a new website! It will be way more organized, have exclusive content that isn't on here, and easier to access for a lot of you guys! We will post the link in early 2026, when everything is finalized. These past 4 years with you guys have been some of the most wonderful times of our lives. You allow us to sit here and tell you about all of our ideologies (both right and wrong) and let you into our world. We are so thankful for you, the readers, for tuning into our blog and being on this journey with us. We will meet again! Thank you for everything!