Personal Narrative Essay: Taking An Arranged Marriage In My Life

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It had been more than seven years since I saw my family, so I decided to take a vacation and see them. The moment I landed at Cairo airport, I saw my older brother. All the way from the airport to my family house, which is in in a small village four hours away from the airport, he was showing me pictures of girls on his phone and asking me what I think of them. Even though I knew his plan, and why he is showing me these pictures, I ask him I pretended like I did not understand. He looked at me and said: “pick one; you are here to get married.” I looked at him, and in my mind, I want to turn back and take the first plane back to the U.S. I told him, I am not here to get married; I am here just to visit. He said “okay...”, but all the way home he was talking about the girls that he showed me. I know that arranged marriage is normal in Egypt, and most of my friends got married this way, but I did not want to get married this way.
When we reached the village, I was shocked by how everything looked so …show more content…

I ended up agreeing with them after all the pressure they put on me. I picked one girl from the ones they showed me. This girl leaves for college all week and only comes to the village to visit in the weekend. The first weekend was my birthday, so my sister and my nieces invited me to spend the weekend with them. I went to my sister’s house which is far from my house and spent the entire weekend there. By the time I went back home, the girl had already left to her college, and she was not coming back until the next weekend. The only way to get out this is to find a way to get out of the house on the weekend. The second weekend I went to see my old college mates and spent the weekend with them. The third weekend, I did the same thing and went to my sister house again. The weekend before, I come back to the United State. I had already had my bags packed, and Sunday was my last day, or at least that's what I

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