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My First "What are You Wearing" Conversation

bismillah. Alhamdulillah, I am in my second week of the semester. All praises be to Him, to whom I owe my life, every single bit of tears and scars and smiles. Who provided me with the necessities, and gave me the presence of Islam to help me along the way. Alhamdulillah. So this week, I got to meet some new...classmates. One of the new girls was recruited into my rag-tag team of besties-who-apparently-make-great-assignment-partners. She is from mainland China. Let's call her DJ. So, DJ and I didn't talk at all during class. I was shy, and thought I needed some time before actually talking to her. See, the chinese people around my campus talk using their mother tongue when they're around one another. That made bumping into conversation very unlikely. Though English is the first language here, well, when we meet people of our own, we tend to use our natural language, right? Anyway, that was what happened between DJ and I. Until late that evening, when we were