You pple and Qabil!!!!!GRRRRRRRR X-(
I was in Mogadishu last summer for the first time EVER!!! I didn't know what to expect but I wanted to satisfty my curiosity. My family wasn't speakin to me coz i wasnt listening to them, so they jus said their goodbyes and hugged me like a zillion times each....where were this hugs b4? My friends!!! especially one who's Abdullahi Yusuf clan i think, was bout to go out of his mind when he heard I was preparing to leave for Hamar....he was more worried than my mum!!!
Which I came to understand why when I got there....ileen pple from Mogadishu aren't fond of MJs (Not that am one, that friend of mine is though) and vice versa.
Anyway so I went, when I arrived at K50 (Kilometre 50), I had to pull out that borrowed jalbab from my bag and put it on!! Before I was inspected for khat!!!!
On gettin to thee town, it wasn't what I expected AT ALL!!!
Nothing like I had imagined... I was shocked to see that many people there to start with! I saw a cocacola factory and i was like...Noooo!!! u know!
I wont even mention the communication sector of that city coz boy! it is untouchable. I went to one of the houses there and there's a phone in the living room( down stairs, yes! there r two storey hses there!!!!), one the living room upstairs, another in the dining!!!!! All from different service providers, I heard of Olympic, Soma, Hormood,etc!!!! And I called home after like every hour...
I couldnt believe it!!!
Then my first day came...At 5am, was woken up by gun shots. I jus went down and mummered the Shahada before someone came to me and said.."it's alright, there's a gun garage near by and that's just testing" Oh My!!!!!!!!Gun Garage? What on earth! Jus testing!?! my heart had stopped for a while.
Then came the thing I hate most!!!Pple askin my qabil!!! The shock they didnt get!! I acted a fool, told 'em I had no idea what I was and it helped coz word spread that I didnt know my qabil so instead of the stupid question, I got questioning looks!!! Whatever!
I went back in November!!! And we used the Mogadishu International Airport!!!! From the excitements I saw and what I heard, it hadnt been used since the war!!!! How cool? I sure felt something knowing that!
Am goin back this summer again,hopefully it would have coolled down by then inshallah.
So whatever they were, even if they made me wear jalbab, 'em sheikhs did something I believe.