As starting a new semester, i moved to another apartment around campus and having new housemates as a routine every year. This year my housemates are mostly turkish (as always honestly lmao) But different than previous years, most of them speak english fluently.
We're 6 people living in typically turkish apartment close to campus (used to be 7 actually because one of them moved to campus dormitory recently) and i really get along with them. Only 2 of them are still in preparatory school learning english starting from A1 which means they only speak turkish now. (Lucky me i speak turkish so we don't have any miscommunication. Alhamdulillah) However others are turkish who have lived abroad in USA, Holland and Georgia and the rest are me and a girl from Columbia. I think this is what make us get along vey well as we share the same struggle life as we're living abroad in Turkey now. Honestly, Having housemates never been this fun as we are quite close towards each others, considering to my previous house that i only could get along only with my roommate. But here, we do silly things together like watching some funny vines while having dinner, singing some the Beatles songs while playing the guitar and piano all along in the midnight and the best part is we keep doing the prayers together. We wake up each other for Fajr prayers, my roomie always ask me whether i did Isya prayers before i sleep (she's the one who came from Netherlands and always having her mom calling her for Fajr prayers so we wouldn't miss it). Mashallah alhamdulillah, my parents must be happy if they could see me living with good people here. Oh yeah actually i wanna tell you something. There's a moment that hit my head and make me think about what i've been doing in my entire life (exaggerating lol) . It was Sunday night and my cooking day. I couldn't cook that day so i ordered Pizza. All my housemates were so happy to see me coming home with 2 big boxes of Pizza. I entered the kitchen and started preparing the drinks while the girls were serving the pizza. Each of us got more than 2 slices and we almost get them finished until one of my friend asked me whether i check the halal label on the box. Wait, halal label on a pizza box? In Turkey? How come the non-halal foods are traded in the majority muslim population country? Well, as i said i couldn't find the label, some of them started to be confuse whether to eat or not. I knew they couldn't handle the eager to eat the pizza (because i've made them starving lol) but they didn't want to eat non-halal foods as well. And in my conclusion, i think they feel bad because i'm the one who buy the pizza, then they keep eating them by peeling up the meat part from pizza and start to eat the rest cheese, olive etc. Some words for this.... "Wita, have you ever bee considering the food you eat? When your Thai friend offer you Tom-yam that she cooked using special recipe from her country or when you eat a bucket of chicken in Popeye or a burger in Burger King. Have you ever thought whether those foods are halal or not? Do you really care about the halal-ness of the food you eat?" Okay my friends sounds so religious (yes they are) but don't ever think they are those girls who wear very big scarf, abaya etc. only some of them wearing scarf and others couldn't because of some political issues (i'm sorry i can't tell more due to the confidentiality about this). Yeah that's the point that i wanna talk actually. I was surprised by my friend's consideration about halal food while their 'appearance' is not showing them as 'religious enough' as people that always giving comments about other muslimah's scarf that is not long enough to cover the front part. (Wait wait please don't get me wrong. I'm not saying long scarf is not important but lemme continue my phrase...) That halal-labeled-pizza-moment just gave me a smooth reminder that we should be more considered about the foods we eat. That is important for us as a muslim to be more careful about this issue. Moreover, Never judge others as "not religious enough" because of their appearance. Because everything needs process and let's focus on the process we made for ourselves. Let's say you might be already in the Level 20, so let's be focus on reaching another higher level without underestimating others who are still in Level 3. Well, without any intention to offend or insult anybody, here I just want to write a reflection journal after months. For further information about Halal-food, you can search it through this youtube link below... http://youtu.be/yO-XaMku7uc Best regards, Wita Koto.
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