Ouija Board Experience

Last night was again one of those random crazy summer nights. It started with my friends and I going to a hookah cafe. My sister and I walked in and we quickly realized that a few of the men who go to this religious/cultural center that my parents go to often were there! I should mention here that my parents are fairly conservative and old-fashioned Iranian people. Growing up, I was never allowed to wear anything even slightly revealing. I still can't. This means, no sleeveless or cleavage showing tops, and no skirts above the knee. And of course, nothing too tight. Obviously, I never comply with these rules and so I frequently have what I like to call "costume changes" in the car. Or, I just put a jacket, pantyhose, or tights on and take it off later. Lately though, I just try to dress a little bit more conservatively simply because I believe it to be more elegant. In my teenage years, I do believe the constrictions caused me to dress a little bit more revealing then I do now. I still never dressed skanky or anything, nothing Mariah Carey-esque...I know it's somewhat funny and kind of sad that at the age of twenty one I still have to go through this but that is life. Any persian girl with strict parents will tell you that you must simply hide a part of your life and self from your parents at all times.

Moving on, though, we realized that one of these men were my ameh's (aunt from dad's side) husband! And me and my sis were BOTH wearing sleeveless tops. We both looked at each other and said fuck! My cousin thinks they didn't see us. Either way, we chilled there for so long that they left eventually so we never had to find out. Phew! Very close call. Note to self: never, EVER go to a place with a lot of middle eastern people and wear anything even slightly revealing. EVER!

So aside from that, as we were hanging out, somehow the conversation turned to the experiences a particular girl friend of mine had with the Ouija board. She seemed to have researched a lot about it and her and her roommates had even bought one. In fact, she was an Atheist and after playing the game, decided she believed since if spirits are real, then everything else must be as well. And then, her boyfriend suggested we go buy one and play. I really didn't want to. I am a firm believer in God and do believe the Ouija board works and just didn't want to mess with it. However, my sister has been dying to play. She really loves ghost stories and believes in stuff like that. As do I, but I'm freaked out by it whereas she finds it fascinating. Anyways, I had no choice but to tag along.

We all went to Walmart to buy it and it turns out that they didn't have it. So we bought the supplies to make it ourselves. Then we went to my friends house, turned down the lights, and they began (I didn't participate). It started out slow and then they made contact with one spirit. We figured from him/her that there was only one spirit present and he didn't want to be bothered. Every question we asked, the pointer would move to "goodbye". After the third time, we got the hint and tried to go outside my friends house in the backyard. Nothing happened there. So then we decided to go to this water wall in the surrounding area. Over there, there were a lot of trees and supposedly, Jin's live under trees. At this point I am really paranoid and try really hard to not even look at the trees for fear of seeing one. They say if you ever see one and they know, they will ruin your life.

Anywho, we picked a spot in this small grass field with a sidewalk and played there. This time the speaker was a friend who kind of took things as a joke. And because he was laughing and stuff, when he asked "are we bothering you?" the spirit said "u yes". We thought that was trippy. So then they switched his spot with another friend and he was able to make contact.

He asked how many spirits there were? 5.

How many guardian spirits there were present? 5.

If one of them was a particular friend who was playing's guardian spirit? Yes.

His name? Russ.

Anything after that though was rubbish. So we said goodbye and decided that spirit was just messing with us. Then we went to different places in that area and tried to again but nothing happened. I even attempted a couple times, but nothing.

All good though, I won't be messing with stuff like that again. It gets exciting and then I can see how it can become a sort of "fun". I can also see how it can turn into trouble. So no more for me!

Anyways those are the significant things that have happened so far. I also discovered this website that sells cute handmade type things. Check it: Etsy. Haven't ordered anything from it yet but maybe one day if something really catches my eye, I will. I am just not that big of an online shopper.

Eh, o.k. tired of typing for now. This blog turned out pretty long!