So, it has been a long time since I whiled away the hours on the old blogger. So, after the prompting of a certain Long Islander, I have made my bottom sit on a chair long enough to knock this out of me.
Over the Christmas vacation, I got on a big plane and flew home. (I had stop over in Chicago - can I tell you how beautiful Chicago is as you fly over it at night? One million postcards could not capture this; my wee olympus certainly couldn't, shame.) I had a really precious time with my parents, sister and brothers; time flies so fast.
The day that I arrived home, my mammy took me to the Trafford Centre - Manchester, England - we had our lunch from Marks & Spencers; I love Mark's sandwiches, so tasty! You do get what you pay for! So, after a lovely luncheon of Pork Pies (seriously, a country that ingests as much bacon as we do over here really should discover the delights of pork pies - so unhealthy - divine!) crisps, and Mark's sandwiches, we wondered around a wee bit. To my surprise ;o and shock :o I saw at the end of one of the floors a prayer room! Dun dun dah! A prayer room? In a shopping centre? This I had to see! (And my wee olympus did catch this, as you may have gathered.)
After talking with my mammy, we decided that there was a prayer room for the high islamic population who pray five times a day. They would not be able to work at the shopping centre without somewhere to go and pray. The room, to me, was quite clearly e. At first I was a wee bit annoyed, not because the Muslam community had a prayer room, not because we had to share, but, why, before, had it never been enough to make a prayer room when we were just a Christian country?
And then I thought maybe we didn't ask ... Crazy the things that manage to get you all rilled up!
3 comments:
hm.. I wonder who the wee long islander was...haha.. It's good to see a blog from you. I just watched in insane movie today in psychology about the Islamic extremists and all about how they believe that they are fighting a holy war for Allah. Oh man that stirred up some questions for me, but that's for a whole other entry!
Good to hear that your visit with your family was good.
Can't wait to see you ssssoooonnnnN!!!!!!
love you!
Did you know that in the Munich airport, they also have a prayer room. Michael and I found that very interesting. It's so nice to see that you posted. I miss youlike crazy!!!
Most airports have them; the Chaplain at Manchester Airport is actually, (or at least was,) a Salvation Army officer.
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