Some Ayyam-i-Ha activities

"It behoveth the people of Baha, throughout these days [Ayyam-i-Ha], to provide good cheer for themselves, their kindred and, beyond them, the poor and needy, and with joy and exultation to hail and glorify their Lord, to sing His praise and magnify His Name... "

(Kitáb-i-Aqdas, paragraph 16)


I am really learning a lot here at the BWC about Ayyam-i-Ha and different ways of celebrating it. Seriously, there is so much going on throughout these days! What i love the most is the atmosphere of fellowship and festivity.

We had some prayers and a gift exchange in our Office, each of us got something very cute and special.

I also had aprivilegee to be invited to a children Ayyam-i-Ha party at one of the homes. It was so much fun! There was a dinner, fun games, music, we sang some songs, they did some face painting, played piano together:):):) I think I enjoyed it more than kids:):)

We had a Philippino Ayyam-i-Ha party last night with lots of non-Philippino friends.
Here we had some performances, people prepared songs and dances and performed their talents for everyone:) We also felt like little kids and played some crazy (!!!!) games with a lot of noise and laughter.

I was hoping to post some pictures but Blog refuses to do so. May be tomorrow i'll be more lucky and will be able to illustrate my stories:)

Peter's photography

i love these photos!

Showering Muts

Soon she'll be wearing it:)
Unrapping the presents
We tried our best not to embarrass Muts during her Bridal Shower:)

Happy Birthday to Noushin!

Tomorrow, 6 February, is Noushin's birthday! yey! She is happily studying now in Canada. We are orientations mates and used to be good friends when she was here. I don't know if you know what i mean but we connected from the first time we talked. It felt so easy and fun to be around her! We had that cheese cake lesson once with Mateen, after which i still don't have any idea how to make it, all i remember is that it was FUN! Congratulations and may you have a beautiful birthday, as beautiful as yourself!

Last weekend

Friday morning I volunteered in Bahji gardens. It was freezing cold at 6:30 in the morning, raining cats and dogs, but amazingly pleasant transplaning baby santolinas to bigger pots:):) (too bad i never used the clippers, i was excited to do some clipping)

After a few hours of transplaning, I and Amir had a staff visit to the Prison Cell of Bahaullah. This pictures were taken after the visit, while waiting for our sherut to go back to Haifa and attend a wedding of our friends Radostina and Shadman.


Entrance/exit of the prison. I am trying to get a hold of Sabina who organized a sherut for us:)















...still waiting for a sherut













...i and Sabina are not wasting time waiting for a sherut












...finaly in Haifa, before the wedding ceremony, taking pictures with friend Matthew, his gorgeous wife, Carol, and my gorgeous former flat mate Stephanie









...beautiful Radostina with her new very proud husband Shadman taking picture with Emem











That night we went back to Akka after the talk. I stayed with Tahirih and next morning we went for the morning prayers in Bahji together. After lunch we went for a walk in old city. Here are some pictures taken in old Akka.




...in front of the House of Abbud

...just a cute combination

...Amir is videotaping Karavan saray

...I thought this was a nice dialog of two epochs...

Finaly, we went for a devotional at my orientation mates Nancy and Ramraj's place for their future baby. She is due in mid April. There was a very warm nice company, some Mauritus food and prayers in different languages. We had a great time!

...on our way to Hamegenim to Nancy's devotional...

...I am touching a very hard belly of very happy Nancy...

after this devotional we rushed to a farewel party for my russian-speaking friend Kevin:)

wow!

that was a busy weekend!