Hey again.

Slow recent few days. It’s the first time in a while i’ve felt like sitting down and writing a post without life going by too fast for me to write it, or me having too much to do. Its a bit boring, but really nice honestly. Im sitting at and’ll be at a friends house for the remainder of my time in jeddah, which should be around 4 days. Should be, because the flight home hasnt been booked, which is odd. The longer it isnt booked for, the less likely ill leave soon, so it very well might be longer. Though as much as I would love it to stay this way longer, my parents are going to have to pay a lot for the flight the longer I stay and the sooner they want me back, so hopefully the find an affordable flight back home soon.

So, let’s lay things out flat so you can see how the week has been. Since I made that last post, I went to bed (obviously). Next day was spent at a cousin’s house, which was fun (even if very exhausting). Instead of going back to my grandparents house though, we ended up staying at a different cousin’s house for the next two days. It was fun, we had a fun time ordering food and watching titans on netflix, which was pretty lame imo.

Probably in part because im used to teen titans, though I get that’s its own thing and itd be unfair to critisize it by a childhood favorite of mine, but just because it took itself so seriously without being all that well written. I felt that the most with raven, dont get me wrong she was fun a lot of the time and I fuck with the lore, but some of her lines made my face sour into the back of my skull hard. Also havent gotten around to seeing cyborg yet, which is lame. I want my hip hop loving cyborg back pleasse >:/. Ill get around to finishing the first season at some point to get a better picture of things, heard it gets better and im already some of the way through. Or ill just drop it, im a bit salty and want my old titans back (biased as hell I know leave me alone).

Anyways, that was just the first day of the second cousins house. The next day yet ANOTHER cousin, decently older than me and the second, took us out to bowl with his brothers and some friends. That was cool, me and the second cousin got some chinese food and had a good time, I lost BIG TIME (I was like 8 points away from second to last at the end leave me alone) but it was fun :). Besides, I end up winning another bowling game l8r. Im getting ahead of myself though.

We finish bowling and head for dinner, and at this point its already 3 am, which we did not feel in the slightest. Me and 2nd cousin already 8, so we sat by a donut shop while everyone else had their dinner at a burger place, we stuck together, it was fun >:). 3rd cousin came to see us after dinner and we talked, and at that point everyone was getting really tired so we finally went home.

Finally, on the next day I figure out things with some friends, which I was trying to do since I was at my grandparents. My parents take us back to that 1st cousins house, but I ended up booking it to a friends house before we had lunch.

If you cant tell already at this point (though your pretty smart im sure you have ;)) by day 4-5 while I was at my 2nd cousins I was EXHAUSTED. I genuinely cant understate that. All this cousin and family talk + visiting, and my weak arabic acting as a bit of a barrier making things harder (though my immediate and extended family have been very accepting as usual god bless them <3) have me pretty tired. Which is why going to my friends house was such a goddamn relief. It was also quite emotional for their mom, since ive been coming over since I was a kid and one of the brothers just moved out for university a couple of months back.

All in all, and especially given the circumstances, it felt like I was back home again. My second home. Dont get me wrong, being around my immediate family and being back in riyadh for that day was AMAZING, I missed it a lot, but damn did this one hit harder given the circumstances.

As for what we’ve been up to, we went bowling the first day with a couple of other friends who also slept over (here’s the match I won >:)), then over the next couple of days had a couple of hour long talk sessions, went to the corniche, and walked around the neighbourhood.

Now here we are, both other friends have left and theyll be coming back soon, tomorrow or after, to hang out. As for when im leaving, I learned as of writing this that the flight back to riyadh is booked for thursday morning, around 6, so thats that.

So, 2 more things id like to touch on before I call it a night, since im writing the latter half of this post about 2 and a half movies l8r in the day. One is Ena’s Dream BBQ. I played it back when I was in leeds the day of release, but didnt have the time or energy to mention it last post. ITS AMAZING. Holy hell it was worth the wait I loved it. The art style ALONE kept me genuinely elated the whole way through, I honestly wouldve been just fine with the first few cutscenes (as silly as that sounds) but the game JUST KEEPS GIVING. Not to mention oliver buckland, still one of my favorite artists, composing the soundtrack, which SHIIIIIIIIIIIT. HE DIDNT HAVE TO GO SO HARD ON SOME OF THOSE PIECES. Like, the crane game? Unnecessarily amazing for such a small minigame and I absolutely ADORE IT. The game honestly feels like there’s so much life breathed into it, even ignoring the FUCKING STUNNING character designs, it never feels like a single part of the game isnt filled with life. Honestly the opposite, the game is JAMMED WITH SHIT, I honestly dont know if I can catch so many nooks and cranies its great. I cant wait to replay the game when im free again, bet your ass im getting the supporters edition because this shit being free is and will continue to be a crime against humanity. Like seriously, you dont even have an excuse if your reading this ITS LITERALLY FREE GO WATCH THE TRAILER PLEEEEEEEASSSSSSSSSSE.

(chapter 1 trailer: https://youtu.be/incjV3-C9Cs?si=_8BXBa2TfK3xae9m) (btw I fucking love the russian cat go find him <3)

Last thing now, small but wanted to mention it. Im gonna be adding spotify onto the site soon, like how ive added discord and instagram. Ill do that after ive updated my playlists, because honestly im not happy with them. Most of them are fine but id only ever make them public when I KNOW ill actually listen to them regularly, and also the cover for each playlist having different dimensions rn is getting on my nerves. Expect that sometime (no promises) and good luck figuring out what the numbers are for. Not that hard to do tho :v.

Even though the past couple of days FINALLY slowed down, im quite excited to see where things go till wednesday. Whether I end up staying home all day, just wandering around the neighbourhood as per usual, or things start moving faster than expected, ive been in a much better mood since I made it home. Hope it stays that way.

That’s it for now, thanks for reading AGAIN, or maybe for the first time which if so thanks still :). Ill see you all next sunday.