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I think the older I'm getting, the more I'm starting to understand my mom's paranoia. I mean, raising your eldest unmarried daughter in a stranger's land? Can't imagine how hard that would be. She tells me that I'm a good girl and that I've made her proud. I'm just like, omg, mom. I'm so average. lol

My parents warmed up to the cinemas thing awhile ago, its my awoowe who still says he will habaar us if we go. I got to make sure I'm not chewing gum when he's around too, because gum is for trashy girls.

InaSamaale wrote:My parents warmed up to the cinemas thing awhile ago, its my awoowe who still says he will habaar us if we go. I got to make sure I'm not chewing gum when he's around too, because gum is for trashy girls.

Inaasamaale

Are u dhulbahante?

Basra- wrote:

InaSamaale wrote:My parents warmed up to the cinemas thing awhile ago, its my awoowe who still says he will habaar us if we go. I got to make sure I'm not chewing gum when he's around too, because gum is for trashy girls.

Inaasamaale

Are u dhulbahante?

Will it warm your heart if I said yes?

for my mom , since i was young until today, hanging with somalis! she freaks out if she sees we talk to somali person. she forgets her self and front of my father she would say; somali maha idin barey! wallah wan ka yaba.

Somali parents generally have a rule. If your parents are strict it's usually because they themselves had very colourful pasts. If they are more easy-going, its because they had a strict upbringing.

Sometimes I think my dad was a player in his days.

hyperactive wrote:for my mom , since i was young until today, hanging with somalis! she freaks out if she sees we talk to somali person. she forgets her self and front of my father she would say; somali maha idin barey! wallah wan ka yaba.

abdi.ismail wrote:Somali parents generally have a rule. If your parents are strict it's usually because they themselves had very colourful pasts. If they are more easy-going, its because they had a strict upbringing.

Sometimes I think my dad was a player in his days.

I heard through the grapevine what my Dad was like in his younger days which sometimes has me but then that automatically becomes

Did your parents not go to the movies in Somalia?

My dad always talks about how he and my uncles would go out at night with someone driving them to the cinema after a day at the beach on Fridays. This is 1970s Mogadishu.

My mother and aunts also went from what they tell me whenever they discuss those times.

Fah ur parents r secural while 2013 parents r relgious

hyperactive wrote:for my mom , since i was young until today, hanging with somalis! she freaks out if she sees we talk to somali person. she forgets her self and front of my father she would say; somali maha idin barey! wallah wan ka yaba.

Am I the only Somali girl who's ever been scolded for eating dinner in public?

SavySallySupersedes wrote:Am I the only Somali girl who's ever been scolded for eating dinner in public?

or chewing in public, drinking in public, talking too much or loud in public! Should I continue? loool