markaan hadlayo ama qoslayo I cover my mouth with my hand. shalley a new collegue said to me ' insert my name, whay do you always cover up your mouth with your face', is it cultural thing?
he is not an English speaker and is over here for a programme exchange. I then said ' oh I am fasting...so do not want people to smell my breath'. he replied ' why are you fasting? is it something personal'. I said no, it is a fasting month for us ( I did not say Muslims). I said it is ramadan. He took out his note-book and wrote 'Ramadan'. He is going to google it
my answer about the breath was quite unthoughful
He has been with us for a about a week and going back next month. I was so surprised that the guy does not know I am a muslim. He likes sitting next to me from the first day and we worked on the same programme.
I am wondering if he 'discovers'' that Ramadan and my fasting is something that relates to Islam...and that he never made the connection between me and Islam.
I do not know whether I should have explained Ramadan bit more insead of letting him do the work. But he made the note in his note-book so quickly.
