12 Before 12 (Updated)

School is on the doors! It's my last year! (Can't wait till I'm over with high school. Really.)

I'm so sad summer's over, it went by so fast :( And, I'm not excited for school. At all. Especially because of the pressure of grade 12 and official exams.

There is so much I need to do before school starts, below are 12 things I should accomplish before I head to grade 12:

1. Clean my room: Typical end of summer activity. Boo  Done: Friday. Sept. 13th
2. Finish working on Rawafid's library wall: In case you didn't know (I'm sure you didn't), I'm working on a huge drawing (which is practically little drawings around a quote) for Rawafid School. I still need to color it. I'll blog about it later! (It's taking so much more time that I thought it would!! And I can't work now, anyways, I'm too caught up with school :/)
3. Put all the healthy recipes I've been collecting and bookmarking and taking screenshots of together in one place.
4. Work on my book. I haven't worked on it for a while now, like a week. :(
5. Spend a day out with Leen.
6. Get back on track concerning my daily walks.
7. Finish reading at least 3 books.
8. Update my gallery on Snapshots. (I did start on this before school, I really did, but my laptop ran out of battery and the rest is history..)
9. Buy new glasses! The ones I have are too old-fashioned. (Can't go back to school with the same old fashioned glasses, now can I?)
10. Practice what I learned about InDesign and Illustrator this summer. Really need to do this but the CD I got won't work. (CD isn't working)
11. Buy new school supplies! Each year, I wait until after we start school to buy my notebooks, and that leaves me with tons of pages to copy. Not practical.
12. Decorate my converse. They're getting old anyways, and I saw this great tutorial about decorating converse shoes.

I'll update this post after school starts; hopefully I'll finish doing all those things. Other than those 12 things, I'll be mourning the end of summer! Are you happy to get back to school/ work/ college? Did your vacation end yet? :]
So I finished 5/12. Not good. (But I did start school earlier than I expected I would, since I changed schools.) 

Out at the Mountains

My aunt & uncle invited us for a feast at the mountains yesterday (Aug. 10th). The place we went to was nice; there were lots of trees and lots of kids. We arrived a little late, and a little late  was just in time for lunch. Lol. Anyways, we had meat and salad and potatoes and onions etc... then we had desert, cakes and fruits. Leen & I went for a little walk, & Leen took tons of pictures.

Lots of people were invited

Special Dish: 'Sfeeha' with a bee!

Lots of people=lots of water

The biggest salad bowl. Really, you had to see it!

Onions & potatoes

Mega watermelons

This looks yummy, & tastes even yummier. Can you imagine!?

Healthy Greens

Idk, maybe I'll never understand what people like in coffee.

Why would anyone need this in the mountain? Hmm..

Leen & I go for a walk

And of course, 'bizir'  was an essential (for Leen, not me)

Beautiful scene #1: you can see a lake in the distance

Beautiful scene #2: my  piece of watermelon

Then, le familia (smaller familia, me, mom, dad, sibs) went to the lake. I was feeling very inspired and I wrote some pretty nice stuff (I'm not even joking). We splashed in the water and Yaman stepped on a dead fish and freaked out. It was funny because he wouldn't go neat the water anymore!

Kara'aon Lake

Cool foam. Really, it's cool- I've never seen anything like this before!

Not so cool dead fish.

Le dad with kids

Le mom with kids

Le me with le converse

Guess what? I love you. (Me talking to my ice-cream cone)

In case you thought those cool pictures were taken by me, then you're wrong. Pictures courtesy of Leen Khateeb-my sister. (Check her out on instagram: @KhateebLeen)