It has been a week since I arrived in Tuscon, Arizona. Today is the second day of Ramadhan, Sunday Aug 23, 2009. Indeed, this is the second day I celebrate Ramadhan abroad, far away from my country, family and friends.

Alhamdulillah, I got a chance to talk to my mother and father via Skype this morning. I asked them to mail some instant food, a graphing calculator, a packet of anchovies and some bottles of minyak gamat because  I desperately need all of these things. However, the conversation with my parents did not last longer because I got a plenty of mosquito bites that made almost all of my body parts itchy!! (I made a Skype call with my parents outside of my apartment, so no wonder there's a lot of mosquitoes). These mosquitoes were really annoying and exasperating. I was really satisfied to have beaten and smashed a mosquito to the glass window. Fuhh..

I was worried about the food that I should prepare for breaking my fast. So, I asked my mum some recipes such as ayam masak macam turkey and fried rice with the cube knor (given by Khaliza). Alhamdulillah , I was lucky to have these recipes with me- I typed the ingredients on my computer while my mum was telling me the steps that I should do to prepare these dishes . I was relieved because today I managed to cook the fried rice, some fried chicken and some hot dogs. How about the drink? Well,  I made a glass of grape juice out of the grape concentrate. I poured some orange juice into the grape juice in order to make the drink taste a bit sour.

What a yummy menu today!!!

My roommate, Ridzwan, cooked spicy red fried rice together with some carrots, beans and eggs.

I suppose he has improved his culinary styles as the fried rice looked better than the fried rice that he cooked yesterday.

At night, we (aliff, ridzwan, wani, khaliza and Hariz) went altogether to the Islamic Center, which is situated a few blocks from the International Student Center, by foot in order to pray solat terawih in congregation. Even though the Islamic Center is quite far from the Sahara apartment (my "house" here in Arizona) I enjoyed the walk with my friends as we could observe and explore many interesting places around the university. Indeed, this night-walk  has helped us familiarize with this place.