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May. 30th, 2005 12:14 pmyesterday was a doozy - we got home from K's at about 11 AM after finishing ROTK, and had to be to Malika opa's by 1pm. I also had to make chocolate cake in that time, which came out amazing and I even managed to make a ganache-like peanut butter frosting.
Our trip to Malika opa's was very productive, I learning the rest of Mo'gulchai Navo and got through most of Talqincha Mo'gulchai Navo, R taught english lessons to the girls, and I got measured for my concert dress which should be ready by friday for the concert.
The family was having their yearly read through of the entire Qur'an yesterday, which takes about 10 hours. We were there for the tail end of it and it was very nice, but it put the whole family onto the subject of religion, which made me less than comfortable in the end. Malika opa is fairly relativistic with her beliefs, but her two oldest children (and some of her siblings) are more devout. She had a rumol (the Uzbek headscarf) on for the first time when I've been around. After the finishing of the reading, the reciter, who was a cousin, came in a prayed for us all. Before that Malika opa and I had talked about religion and morals and how to raise children, etc. She's worried that because I don't ascribe to Christianity or Islam or any other religion that I won't have a strong moral base to raise my children from - I tried my best to assuage those worries, but I agree that it is a worry. My parents seemed to do a pretty good job with me, so I'm not that concerned, but I think it is a valid point. After the prayer, the reciter just started going on and on about religion and how Islam is superior to all others, and how both the bible and the torah contain prophesies of God's final prophet Muhammad that people have cut out so as to keep Christians and Jews in the dark. He made this metaphor about how Islam is like university, Christianity is like highschool, and Judaism is like junior high - they are all education, but Islam is far superior. It got very tiring, and I have a hard time discussing these issues in a foreign langauge when I feel that they will not accept my relativistic position, even though I accept their position. The last thing he said to me as we were finally getting out the door was "I hope you think over what you heard today and eventually convert so that we will see each other again in Heaven."
Our trip to Malika opa's was very productive, I learning the rest of Mo'gulchai Navo and got through most of Talqincha Mo'gulchai Navo, R taught english lessons to the girls, and I got measured for my concert dress which should be ready by friday for the concert.
The family was having their yearly read through of the entire Qur'an yesterday, which takes about 10 hours. We were there for the tail end of it and it was very nice, but it put the whole family onto the subject of religion, which made me less than comfortable in the end. Malika opa is fairly relativistic with her beliefs, but her two oldest children (and some of her siblings) are more devout. She had a rumol (the Uzbek headscarf) on for the first time when I've been around. After the finishing of the reading, the reciter, who was a cousin, came in a prayed for us all. Before that Malika opa and I had talked about religion and morals and how to raise children, etc. She's worried that because I don't ascribe to Christianity or Islam or any other religion that I won't have a strong moral base to raise my children from - I tried my best to assuage those worries, but I agree that it is a worry. My parents seemed to do a pretty good job with me, so I'm not that concerned, but I think it is a valid point. After the prayer, the reciter just started going on and on about religion and how Islam is superior to all others, and how both the bible and the torah contain prophesies of God's final prophet Muhammad that people have cut out so as to keep Christians and Jews in the dark. He made this metaphor about how Islam is like university, Christianity is like highschool, and Judaism is like junior high - they are all education, but Islam is far superior. It got very tiring, and I have a hard time discussing these issues in a foreign langauge when I feel that they will not accept my relativistic position, even though I accept their position. The last thing he said to me as we were finally getting out the door was "I hope you think over what you heard today and eventually convert so that we will see each other again in Heaven."
