Never put away your shoes

a story by Ibtissam Bawazeer

Last december, my family and I decided to go on a trip to Saudi Arabia.

Actually we used to go a lot there.

As a matter of fact, Saudi Arabia symbolized so many interesting things for me because it is the

origin of my religion: Islam

I expected people to be honest, sincere and strict but infortunately something strange

happened to me.

After we had a rest, we decided to go on tour of « KAABA » the way we used to do everytime

we came there.

First of all, we took our shoes off

and started going around « KAABA ».

We were doing this for seven times but I didn’t feel tired at all because I enjoyed it.

Unluckily, we had to return home and leave this magic and sacret

place.

To my big surprise!! While I was looking for my shoes which I already put next to my father’s

ones, I couldn’t find them.

I was walking barefooted

for a long time when I saw a women waving to me.

I was asking myself why she was doing this.It took some time before I understood that

she was selling plastic shoes

I was delighted to go back home with shoes on.

Even if this incident happened to me, I was

extremely happy because I had the opportunity to be in

that great place.

The End.