Kandahari Ella New member intro

[Laila]

Haha, same here. I feel like I'm stealing Omar's thunder. I've made his post about me and what I'm doing. When it should have stayed at "I'm a humble, down to earth and spontaneous type of gal". =) So tell me about this site? Does it have stalkers on here? jk. =) You should go there! It's a little fun place to hang out at. It does prepare you, but remember everyone and their mama's are going to be apply as bio majors. Have something else that distinguish's you from the rest of the applicants. Had on another major, something that comes really easy for you. I have way to many people in my life talking about the MCATs.

Yeah I've looked at a few down there. Insha'Allah I'll see how things go once I start getting acceptance letters.

LOL wow....then we live really close by then ha ha i dont think Omar minds, i mean you are new too.....stalkers here? no not really. But this site is public and you may never know with the situation with the net. So yeah. Thats its preferred not to put your exact location, name, pictures,etc.

I love the fountains. I used to go so many times with my friends after shopping at Galleria. Now its busy, busy with college, even on the weekends lol.

i know a girl that goes to a law school in SF...and she loves it. ha ha yeah my major is plain old bio, but i have an emphasis on embryology....and i wont start that until after i transfer. So hopefully that kinda makes me stand out. If not, i will go to PA school :D lol

[Admin Khan]

Welcome aboard.

Da Kandahar da kam zai ye?

[Fahd]

welcome here kandaharai ella :P
ba khyerona raghli

[amna.]

So happy to have you here.

[kandahari ella]

Kandahari ella. Welcome here, such a pleasure and honor to have you here. Stalkers? There are none we women run this site. There are at least more than a hundred active women and since your Kandahari, they are all mainly Kandahari. I look forward to your posts.

Thank you Jasmine! I was just being sarcastic about the stalkers! =)

[kandahari ella]

Welcome to pf, are pashtuns/muslims in californ-I-A liberal? Just curious.
good relevant discussions here!!!

Thanks! Do you mean if their political liberal? Or just liberal overall? In regards to Muslims, you have your liberals one and conservative ones no matter where you are. I don't think the California ones are any different. Masha'Allah we have big Islamic communities all throughout California and we do have a lot of people really involved in those communities. With Pashtuns, I've noticed that their culturally conservative, yet Islamically liberal. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but that's the deal with Pashtuns in California. They enforce culture on their children, yet when it comes to Islam, the kids have no idea what's going on. Honestly, I'd rather be one lost Pashtun, not know a single word of Pashto than to give up a part of my religion, or not know what my religion is. When it comes down to it- I'm a Muslim before I'm a Pashtuna. Hope this kind of answers your question. =)

[kandahari ella]

Kandahari ella welcome. I am also Kandahari but I'm from New York.

New York is so much better than Cali.

New York, especially NYC has soo much to offer and there's always something to do, but frankly, I'd rather save a few $$ and not live there. I'd love to visit time and time again, but home is where the West Coast is. =)

[Laila]

Lots of Pashtuns live in California. I think it is the weather. It reminds them of their land lol.

Thats good to know that Pashtuns have kept to their cultural traditions their. I know that Persians have lost most of their culture there, and was curious if the same has happened to Pashtuns.

Welcome to PF again!

Yeah...there are many areas that remind us of Afghanistan. Like Placerville kinda looks like Salang. My city looks like Laghman. Its because we have open land which Pashtuns can relate too. The Sierra's look like Swat. I mean California is beautiful.

[kandahari ella]

I'm sure it does to other Pashtuns. To me, unless I'm surrounded my mountains, it doesn't remind me of Afghanistan. =) But I have heard its because of the weather and the parks.

[kandahari ella]

Pa New York key muzh bekhey der Kandahrian laro.

We have an entire neighborhood dedicated to us haha. We are in thousands. What are you studying? I am soon to get my Masters degree in Mathematics at NYU.

I've heard that there are literally thousands of Kandarharian. Especially in Queens. That's kind of cool though. I finished up school last year. I'm now applying for law school for next year Insha'Allah.

[kandahari ella]

Ya, In Flushing. Flushing should be renamed to Kandahary village.

Flushing you can walk in just meet Kandaharis on every block. Mashallah many are either Hafizs or working on Ph.Ds.

What about in California? Have they all turned Disco Kandahari?

Masha'Allah that's really good. I'm soo annoyed at people in their mid 20's not wanting more education. Afghans here are trapped in the theory that "lets make money the fastest way possible" and have given up on education. But the younger crowds the less the 22 year olds are realizing they need to be in school which is pretty awesome. California has closet "disco Kandaharians". They preach and go to school during the day, and at night their other sides come out. =(

[kandahari ella]

Your Kandahari friends from Cali might be on PF.

Mayana who is part of the Pashtunforums adminstration is Kandahari and she too is from California.

Pashto kho bajhey kamzora na ye? Were you born in Kandahar?

They might be, I'm from Northern California- so if she lives up North I might know her. Zama Pashto sama dama da. I hate the whole Pashto-English spelling. That throws me off so sadly. So I avoid typing in Pashto-English altogether. My grandparents are from Kandahar, Kandahar. I was born in Kabul.

We have Afghan basketball tournaments here as well!

[kandahari ella]

Yeah, my aunt went to a soccer one that happens in Northern California as well.

[Zayam]

I knew a man once from Karaj in Iran, who had also spent much time on the Caspian Sea, and he said Northern California close to the Oregon border (they often call Middle California the Northern part incorrectly-though Northern is further North than the San Francisco Bay area) reminded him of the Caspian Sea region, that it even smelled right, and I have heard that the same area reminded a Pakistani of Swat Valley.

[Laila]

I knew a man once from Karaj in Iran, who had also spent much time on the Caspian Sea, and he said Northern California close to the Oregon border (they often call Middle California the Northern part incorrectly-though Northern is further North than the San Francisco Bay area) reminded him of the Caspian Sea region, that it even smelled right, and I have heard that the same area reminded a Pakistani of Swat Valley.

Yes i have drove there before...its beautiful its so green there. Swat Vally looks like Eastern California. Northern California includes Bay Area (San Francisco) the state Capital, and the mountain, valley regions up north of that.