The following scenario is real... reported by a Kuwaiti Tenth grader..
Setting: School, Recess (aka. break)...
Everyone is enjoying their lunch break... You can see all the groups of kids chatting, playing some sport, eating, rushing to complete their late homework... or as we all can guess, checking out their blackberries...
Suddenly, most of them get a msg...
"Flana leflani tara feeha chethi oo chethi... oo elyom betsawii chethi oo tara ehya eli thak elyom kanat mwa3daa after school... xoxo gossip girl.."
The msg reaches the students and all of them stare at the gossip girl victim of the day...
Hilarious!
Mo 9ejj... I still can't get over hal salfa walla its a joke! 6ab3an I need not tell you how the students took care of gossip girl when her identity was exposed... It was NOT pretty.
What happened to childhood? Seriously? I look at fifteen year old girls going to school... Its like they wash up and change their clothes, wear six of the latest cartier bracelets on one wrist and another two hermes bracelets on their other wrist... throw on a pair of van cleef earrings... ballerinas... carry a God knows what side bag... then off to school they go..
I remember a simpler time, when puma shoes and Jansport backbacks were the "7addi a9lan mta3ba nafsi oo kaashkhaa" attire! I still remember the pair of orange puma's my friends and I got together. We thought that looked hot. Now when i look back, i realize how loser-esque we were... But isn't that part of childhood? Having fun, doing simple things to build bonds with your new/old friends...
I don't think its acceptable when teenage girls try to reenact TV shows imagining they're part of a high school in the upper east side, NY... Since when do 14 year old girls wear the same clothes and attitude as 28 year olds.. Tara kelshay 7elo eb stages even if its with something as minor as clothes...
On one hand though, its only natural that children want to imitate sophisticated grown ups... But its the grown up's JOB to allow children their right to childhood..
They have the rest of their lives to enjoy the limited amenities of adulthood..
i am completely convinced ena no one enjoys their childhood anymore...which really is a shame
ReplyDeletethere's no innocence anymore either
ps: so2al, hathy gossip girl lail7en she's doing watever it is that she was doing...i thought she closed her blog and stuff
Madre etha we're talking about the same gossip girl.. ana g3da atkalam 3n wa7da in one of the schools.. oo kanat etdez bbm
ReplyDeleteOMG time of jansport and puma (y) and finding the perfect navy pants for school
ReplyDeleteLol don't forget the polo shirts! a7la shay besalfa el polo shirts! walla kenna simple and we experienced childhood to the fullest extent! Hell, i'm still a child!
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