Happy New Year!

Assalamualaikum and welcome again (for a long time), readers!

Alhamdulillah we already entered a fresh new year 2016! I wish all of you a happy new year and may all of you achieve your goals for 2016.

I am very sorry for being so late to update my blog! I barely have a chance (although I really wanted to show the pictures took in Port Dickson), ut now I'm here and I'm going to tell you all about my new year.

As you may know we started going to school on the 4th of January 2016. When I woke up with my cousin, I wasn't in the mood to go to school after a long holiday. We were actually quite nervous and excited to enter our new class, Dar-Izzah, a class that follows the Cambridge O-Level Examinations syllabus. There were about thirty students when we arrived, forming a circle on the floor of an enormous classroom that looks more like a restaurant with a kitchen cabinet at the back. Even the front door was grand. When we excused ourselves to put our bags and shoes at the back room (our own Muslimah Corner!), the other part of the room came into view, which looks more like a classroom, and it's split into two.

The first week in Dar-Izzah was awesome. There were no lessons yet, but we started with introductions, physical activities, decorating, classroom jobs and the school tour. We also had the chance to prepare tea time. The classroom jobs includes a class inspector, trash disposal, Imam, Tazkirah, librarian, dishwasher, waiter, Teacher's assistant, toilet cleaner, table arranger/wiper, etc. Each person has to choose a job every day (no repeating jobs in a week).

That was the first week. The second week felt longer than that. It felt like a month or more. We started our lessons in the second week which includes English, Mathematics, Science, Critical Thinking, Writing and Journal, Islamic Studies, Life Skills, Experiential Learning (Debate) and Practical Life. We need to write journals, lesson summaries, research about cells, make a model of one, write essays about ourselves, develop writing skills using laminated worksheets we call Work Box, run in a marathon (or walk, and vomit afterwards), get injected, draw timelines, write more journals and lesson summaries and choose which co-curriculum to participate in. It was a very long week indeed.

Students in Dar-Izzah are really nice to be friends with. We have six new students this year. The teachers who teach us are also good. Sometimes we have an hour with the director, Mr. Fauzi, for the lecture of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey. We also have Independent Time or Immersion Schedule to finish up our assignments that keeps mounting up. We were very busy and still are. I still haven't start writing Thursday's journal and I have to write Friday's too, and my Skill Summaries are not finished yet and I haven't search the structures and functions of the organelles in the cells, nor have I built a model or drawn atimeline for Mathematics, or ask for words from Teacher Hafizah for vocabulary!

Well, lesson learned, don't be too lazy and procrastinate. We have to do important things first. Like what Teacher Nafeesa said yesterday,"The things in this world (dun-ya') is not for us to enjoy, but for us to use." We are all caliphs of Allah, so we have to do our part in leading the people on Earth towards the righteous path, as Allah trusts us to do.

I hope you're not mad at me for not writing for so long and enjoy this first post of the year. I promise it will not be the last post of 2016 In Shaa Allah. Assalamualaikum!