How lucky we are to be sisters!
November 11, 2006by Tazeen Siddiqui
The MSA & TMA Sisters’ Eid Celebration was held on Thursday, November 2nd in the Arbour Room of Hart House, when 40 sisters gathered together to celebrate Eid with games, food, gifts, and henna! I arrived promptly at 5:45pm for the 5:00pm event (Paki Standard Time in full effect). The fun was waiting for me to begin!
After a quick round of intros and finding out the sisters’ guilty pleasures, we were treated to a wonderful speech on great women in Islam. It was then time to raid the food. Oh the food!!! This starving student will eat just about anything, but GOOD food is always a welcomed surprise. And yes, there was indeed free cake.
Can you quit with the pictures and bring us our food before our plastered smiles wear off!
How very happy we are to be here – Part I
How very happy we are to be here – Part II
Great food, great company – what’s not to love about the MSA?
With henna-ness running in the background, sisters ate and chatted, laughing all their university worries away. But then it was time for some real fun. Out came the games and prizes!
Henna artists at work
Some sort of game, apparently
Another sort of game, apparently
Not realising there was a colour theme to the evening, I began to question why so many sisters were wearing pink. Turns out that all those who had dressed in pink and/or purple received roses, as did at least one non-pink/purple-wearer whose confusion earned her enough pity to warrant an un-warranted rose. The evening ended with a gift exchange and some Spongebob Squarepants pinata fun!
Roses for the brave souls in pink and purple
Spongebob’s Angels!
Exchanging gifts
The joyful bunch
This year’s event was a blast! Thank you to all the volunteers and the awesome sisters who attended. To get involved in Sisters’ Events and help make the rest of the year’s events equally as fun, if not more, please email msa.exec@utoronto.ca.
One final picture to cherish the memories 
It was a lot of fun! To all the sisters who didn’t come out, there will be more chances for you to get involved inshaAllah!
The brothers really missed out
Tazeen did a pretty good job of reconunting all the things for an event that she came oh so early for and left oh so early too….hmm.
Just a small comment,
I think MSA should keep some disclaimers and tell others while taking pictures if they want to publish it either in TMV, displays or on the website. In the past pictures have been published of both brothers and sistas without asking anyone’s permission or letting people know such pictures will be posted.
Oh Sadaf…tsk tsk…don’t you know by NOW?!?! Tazeen’s the International Woman of Mystery–do not doubt her abilities
Looks like a lot of fun!!