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Continuation from yesterday's post:)

CHET Presentation was.... unexpected yesterday. Groups were called at random to present their report on their previous visits to a medical or health facility. For the past two presentation classes, M16 was not called up. So this being our final CHET presentation, my team mates were silently praying under their breaths: "M16... M16..." And Allah answered our prayers because ours were the 5th (i think) group to present.

So this time it was me and Najah's turn to present. I started off with an attention grabber and I think I went quite smoothly going over our cognitive objectives. I was looking at the audience- and the unexpected happened. I don't know how and I don't know why but when I made eye contact with her, I smiled and she smiled. And we suddenly burst out laughing.

It's all fine and dandy if we were laughing at a corridor or if we were both sitting at the seats. But imagine this: she was sitting amongst the audience while I was presenting and there were all eyes on me. She wasn't doing anything in particular. We just happened to look at each other and smiled; I guess I've not been hanging out with her for so long... So I laughed. Infront of my batch mates. And the two lecturers conducting the class. They must have thought me insane. Or demented.

And when I finally regained composure, I actually looked at her again and we burst out laughing again. The lecturer actually turned around and asked what was so funny and asked if "there were some people making signs at me".

I've never learnt in Toastmasters how to handle a sudden bursting out into a laughter moment. I lost the momentum there. Of course after my presentation, I strangled her:P She wouldn't like this but... Kak Atikah, I won't look at you the next time I'll be presenting.

Fortunately or unfortunately, my sports match yesterday was cancelled due to the heavy rain. Allah answered my prayers. Not that I didn't want the match to happen; but the fact that please let whatever happens be for the best.

When we reached home from the match though, I was actually still enthusiastic to be outdoors. So I told Najah I didn't want to go in. She looked at me and I looked at her. And she said, "Okay, let's dance in the rain." Of course I didn't dance in the rain but we walked through it to the lake and spilled our heart's contents to our heart's content (This is not a typo).

And fortunately or unfortunately, MMU TMC meeting was cancelled yesterday too.

I think I was having quite a long day; full of anticipation for some things which were not expected. But when I reflect it over, when I see that there are times I can frown and cry- there's just too many other things to be smiling over:)

Like for the fact that many of my batch mates congratulated me over my CHET presentation (although they were quite perplexed at my sudden burst). And instead of the match, I caught up with Najah and we enjoyed the drizzle. And Zahid reminded me that handling a club is not going to be easy and we should be tough and strong through it because these things will happen through our lives again and again. It's good to be surrounded by so many supportive people:)

Like Faz said; Alia, you're only 19. You're going to go through much much much more.