Hello Girls-Born-Abroad :D *happy thread*

[farrah]

@PunjabiRose

One should note: it was a Pakistani girl that grew up in Pakistan that started this thread. Not an Amreekan ladkhi who is out to “tout her own horn”. lol. The OP had a natural curiousity about differences in girl’s lives growing up/living in the west and she asked us questions about it as well as well as asking for our opinions in comparisons to girls living in Pakistan. Girls are doing just that… they are answering her questions and giving her their opinions.

Plus I dont think the thread was about “how productive life is” … it asked us what activities we do, how we spend our eids, our curfew times, etc. etc. etc.

She started this thread in good spirits and has responded positively to our answers to HER questions. I really don’t get why some people are getting so bent out of shape about this and taking it so personally.

Farrah - bring on more questions!

lol … …logooo meray thread ko unhappy mat karo … the intention of it was nothing more that PR has written here, and it’s spot on! lol …
as for more questions … heheh … in another thread

@Sara516

… I’m not saying my life is perfect, by any means, but I do cherish my independence and freedom and I wouldn’t be able to give it up for anything.

i think this is really the gist of it … the freedom and independence, in combination with the lifestyle that requires self-dependence. nobody is really there to do it for you. so you just have to get up and get in charge of your own things.
and i also really appreciate the amount of volunteering thats going on. in pakistan thats next to impossible. NGOs and the sort are considered corrupted organizations. and i really dont know why it is more of an issue for parents to have their daughters do volunteer work than, say work at an office. it is more of an honor-risk to be in an NGO thing.