My Spring break

From the first day of classes, i got very stressed, due to the homeworks and quizes and i was not very satisfied with my grades. However, since its spring break. I get to take a rest and enjoy my time wondering around Tempe for a short period of time.

The first few days was not excited. I just stayed in my apartment, relaxing, watching TV and i was sleeping almost the whole day.
Then, i decided to change that routine, because basically i would not want to waste this vacation for nothing. I applied for my driver license at the MVD, the test was not that difficult,though i had minor problems with the writing test, so i had to re-took the test again. I passed both my writing and driving test and i got my license finally.

Since i got my license, me and my friends rent a car for five days. We had some issues with rent price, it is spring break and everyone wants to rent a car, therefore all the rental companies raised the prices up high. But we sorted everything out and rented a Dodge Charger V8. We were supposed to move out of Tempe and move to LA to have some fun, but we could not there was no enough time to do all that. Although, instead moving out of Tempe, we cruised around Tempe.
Honestly, i did not know that Tempe had so much interesting and fascinating places like: Hookah cafe's, Curry Corner, Downtown Tempe, scottsdale road, ETC.
I stayed in my friend apartment, we haven't had much sleep, we were too busy partying all day long.


All in all, I enjoyed this amazing break. It gave me the best opportunity to know more places around Tempe and enjoying my time with my friends at the same time.

About me

I go by the name Ahmad Mohammed Al-Baker, an 18 years old male. My name derives from being thankful and praise. I was born in the 11th of August, 1993 in my hometown Doha. 

I have done many sins in my life, and one of the biggest sin has to be getting addicted to smoking. As a kid, i have never thought of smoking, or even getting close to it .However, i used to hang out with a couple of friends that used to smoke every now and then, so i thought in myself, one cigarette won't hurt me and i got cheered up by them to try out smoking, and they said that it is fun and makes you feel better. So after trying it, I liked the feeling that came into me, though I coughed for 15 minutes, because it was my very first time. My friends said that it is something normal because your body is not used to it yet. And from that day, i used to smoke two to three cigarettes each day, but overtime the amount of cigarettes got bigger and bigger to half a packet a day. My family knew that i was smoking, and they immediately try to stop me from doing so. They were advising me everyday to quit, but i didn't listen to them. They also tried to ground me in home, but that didn't work either. By the time i got 18 years old, my family said, we are not responsible for you anymore, you choose to smoke and you must do something about it before its too late. These words were  very tough to me, because i know that my family loves me and wants the best for me, so i decided to decrease the number of cigarettes from three to four a day and hopefully quit smoking for good. 

Since i was a teenager, i always had the love of sport. It was a passion that no one could describe it. My favorite sport is Basketball and i have been playing since i was 15 years old. When I was in High school, All schools around Doha arranged a major basketball tournament. So, our coach told us about this tournament and how important it is to our school. We were practicing and working out every single day, We didn't rest much. In instance, we all wanted to win this tournament in order to prove and get respected by the other schools.The day had finally come, we played against four schools. We won two games and lost in two. My team mates were feeling bad, because they obviously wanted to get the first place. So, i was trying my best to cheer them up, i said we didn't lost nothing, because what matters is that we proved ourselves  to them and that we are a strong and hard working team. We took the third place in the tournament. Our coach was extremely proud of us, he didn't expect us to accomplish that much. That was one of my biggest accomplishments in life.