Hello hello hello! It has been a while!
I hope everyone had a lovely New Years and has had a good start to the year!
I apologise for the lack of blogs I've been putting out and I also thank and appreciate everyone who has been understanding and has been waiting.
Now, I told the story about how my Halloweens' were back in the UAE so why don't I share a little on how I used to celebrate New Year's!
I remember the mornings being fairly normal. It was between afternoon and evening when things would start. As I mentioned before, I lived in a walled off community (a compound) so we were free to run along outside and stay out until dark without too much worry from parents. I'd go out and play with my friends and one of our families would start a barbecue so the food would be ready by the time it was dinner time. We'd go and play until then, eat together and then go play some more. We'd play all sorts of games! I remember hide and seek being one of my favourites but we also played dodgeball, football and a game we had called Liner (four people in different corners of a square grid, trying to strike the others out by passing a ball between us). Or going into the back yard of one of my friend's house and use their trampoline to see distant fireworks. So many things we'd do.
And once the clock struck midnight, chaos would ensure as we had a monthly tradition called "Pinch, punch" where we would pinch then punch each other on the first day of the month while saying "pinch, punch, first day of the month" and add "no returns" to the end so that our victims could not get back at us until the next month. Everyone would scramble to get each other as we'd already be in close proximity and to get someone else on New Year's Day was big. It still lives on with us even now, years later, albeit being through text of course.
We'd then go play some more until we got tired and headed in for the night.
There was one time where I couldn't sleep so instead, I sat on one of the walls around my house and watched the sunrise there. It was really pretty and I'd love if I could do it again in the same place some day but it's probably impossible at this point. But I can dream hehe!
So that's usually what my New Years looked like back in the UAE. Surrounded by somebod my closest friends and having fun. I look back in these memories fondly and always hope that one day, we'll be able to do something together again in the future.
Thanks for reading along this far!
I'm quite tired now so I shall leave it at that.
I hope you all have lovely days ahead! Good bye for now and see you on the 15th hopefully!
Good niiiiiight!
Mei 💚
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