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Dalya Abubaker Dhaliwal. P 636203 ENG 3U0-G March 21, 2017 Family Comes First On July 17, 2015, it was a very special day, it was a special day because it was an Islamic celebration known as Eid. Eid is an Islamic festival that marks the end of Ramadan (end of fasting). This day all started at 8:00am in the morning, I had woken up early in the morning to get ready and go to the mosque to pray. One of my cousins had already came over the night before so we could go to the mosque and pray together. All our clothes were brand new, I was wearing a flannel that was blue, red, and white, with a blue tank top and navy blue jeans. My new shoes were Nike with a nice design, it was black, blue, purple, and pink and it was all laid out on my bed. I put the clothes on and all the girls wore their new hijabs and put on their makeup. Then we left to go to the mosque, but we couldn't eat breakfast because we were running late. I was trying to put my hijab on it was like outing in something greasy because it would not stay and my mom was yelling at me saying "HURRY UP, YOUR G ONNA MAKE US LATE!" When we got there, it looked very beautiful inside the mosque it had a chandelier hanging down from the ceiling and sparkling lights designed near the chandelier. When we sat down I saw some of my family friends. I approached them and said, "hey happy Eid" they replied with the same response. As me and my friends were catching up on our lives the imam was calling everyone to prayer. (An imam is a person that leads a group of people through prayer and gives us a meaningful speech about the Quran, life and how to succeed). After the imam gave his speech everyone got up and went to put on our shoes, went to the main foyer and we ate. There was food and drinks setup along the tables. We ate and talked to some of our family friends but sadly we had to go home early because all of my cousins from Toronto were coming over and my mom was stressing out because the house was not cleaned and the food wasn't cooked my cousins were coming at 2 pm it was 11:30 we only had 3 in a half hours to c ook and clean before they came. My mom was so stressed out and frustrated she kept shouting at us, giving us orders, and stuff to do "stop siting down and going on your phones and come help me get the house ready". I tired to help my mom cook the food but she was yelling at me because I was doing it wrong and she didn't have time for me to mess up everything so she pointed to the stairs and expressed how done with me she was and told me to "just go upstairs". Later that day all my cousins, aunts, and uncles all came to my house. All the kids were upstairs waiting for the food to be ready so to pass the time we were playing cards games like crazy eight, signal, and president. But after years of playing the food was still not ready so I decided since it was very hot in my room we should go to the park that's near my house. Once we got to the park we all ran to the swings but only four of us got to the swings the rest of my cousins went on the slides or the big blue tower. Then one of my cousin who was wearing blue shirt with black pants and blue and red shoes, he is three years younger than me begged me to ask everyone to "get off the swings and come on the big blue tower so we can all climb it and I'll even push it PLEASE" the way he begged me was so adorable with his chubby cheeks. I wanted to say this in the nicest way I could so I told him "no thank