Live in Newcastle, United Kingdom

I came to Newcastle on 7th September 2012. I came with my husband and daughter. We came here because my husband takes his Ph.D in Newcastle University. He didn't want to stay away from me and our daughter, so he wanted to take us with him.

Newcastle is a nice city. My first impressions about this city were calm, the transportation was very good, the traffic was not really busy. Other things were the masjid, we could find many masjids in this city. We also could find lots of halal food stores around this area. We could find halal meets easily. I thought that would be difficult to find halal stores, but now I don't need to worry about it.  

One thing that we still struggle with is cool weather. It's really matter to us. When winter comes, we don't want to do anything. We just want to stay in our room hiding behind our duvet. My daughter feels so lazy to take a shower, until I insist her to do it. But she likes the snow very much. She like to play with her pink sledge and make a snowman.

My daughter was very sad several weeks after we arrived in Newcastle. She felt lonely, she had no friends to play with. She felt bore because she got no school placement yet until 2 months later. Just stayed at home in a new situation made her homesick. She missed her old friends, her grandparents, her old toys, her old bicycle, her rabbit, and everything left in our country. Fortunately, she was getting better when she started to school. She got lots of new friends and her English was also improved.

Time flies very fast, unwittingly we have been living in Newcastle for 2 years. Everything is getting settled down now. My husband still busy with his third year's work. I hope he is doing well with his study. My daughter loves her school, she doesn't even want to go back to our country. In here, the school doesn't give the students much homework, and have more school holidays than in our country. But we still miss our country, we miss our foods, our family, and also miss the warm sunshine.

 

 

Ayat hari ini:

Surat Al-Kausar (Sungai di Surga) ayat 1-3

1. Sungguh, Kami telah memberimu (Muhammad) nikmat yang banyak.
2. Maka laksanakanlah shalat karena Tuhanmu, dan berkurbanlah (sebagai ibadah dan mendekatkan diri kepada Allah).
3. Sungguh, orang-orang yang membencimu dialah yang terputus (dari rahmat Allah).