Heaven’s gates won’t open up for me With these broken wings I’m fallin’ And all I see is you These city walls ain’t got no love for me I’m on the ledge of the eighteenth story And oh I scream for you Come please I’m callin’ And all I need from you Hurry I’m fallin’
AIRPORT:
Adil: (reciting inside head): ok Adil this is it, your getting on another airplane and your close to being late, you can’t afford another “random security check”. Just keep reminding yourself, your Adil Khan and not a terrorist, you were born In Doha, Qatar, not a terrorist nation. Man who am I kidding I’ve been stopped everytim
::::::::FLASHBACK TO HARVARD MODEL CONGRESS:::::::
Adil: Hey Katie Watch this (Adil steps past guard)
Security guard: excuse me sir, can you please step over hear for a extensive search
Katie: WHAT?
Adil: don’t worry I’m used to it by now
:::::END Flashback
(Adil walks past the first checkpoint and security guard)
(security guard looks at Adil and allows him to pass)
Adil (thinking in head): wow Hollister and Curly hair make me look white enough to get past the gaurds
Hurley: wow you made it
Ms.Hurley: these two were determined that you wouldn’t make it on time
Adil: yeah no random security checks this time.
(At the baggage claim)
Hurley: well me and Jake have our bags, we are just waiting for Adil
Adil: yeah I don’t see mine
INTERCOM: WILL ADIL KHAN …(says other names)….Please come to the front station
Adil: darn I knew it was to good to be true
(Adil finds out his luggage “didn’t make it”, he files paperwork and comes back)
Hurley: did you identify your luggage
Adil: yeah it’s the only one with Arab Emirates stickers on it
Hurley: Hmm…. I wonder why it didn’t go through
DALLAS/FORTWORTH
(Adil enters room and looks out window)
Adil: what in the world?, it looks like a scene from Star Wars, all I see is random turrets and roads there is no trees or anything
Jake: ha the beds don’t even have cushioned head boards
Adil: Noooo this is too much
(Adil turns on Tv and Batman Begins is playing)
Alfred: what do we do when we fall?, we learn to pick ourselves up.
Adil: a very deep quote for a movie.
In the competition
(during a speech)
Competitor: Marijuana is not bad for you, according to Marijuana.com…..
Adil (thinking in head): Are you kidding me? Marijuana.com is reliable?
Competitor2: Marijuana is not bad for you, I know from personal experience….
Adil(TIH): yeah, like this morning?
Competitor3: NOBODY HERE CAN TELL YOU THAT MARIJUANA IS BAD FOR YOU!....
Adil(TIH) OK That’s it!, these people are idiots
(speech ends)
Presiding officer: are there any speeches against this bill?
(Adil Throws up HAND hitting the guy next to him)
Presiding officer: Senator Khan you have the floor
Adil(TIH): time to show them some real stats
(Adil gives speech quoting the CDC and American Cancer society from this year)
(next speech)
Competitor4: Senetor Khan tried to show you how marijuana was bad with using some really unreliable sources that were outdated….
Adil(TIH): I’m gonna need some anger management after this session
The Posting of Semi’s
Jake: yeah Adil I’m gonna have to do research for you for semi’s
Adil: don’t worry jake I think you could make it too
(Adil walks up to list of who qualified)
Hurley: umm….. Adil, I don’t see your name on their
Adil(TIH): this can’t be happening……….
Jake: guess who made it, Mike Educate and Brad Dlatt
The breakdown after
(Adil, Jake, Mike, and Brad walk into room)
Brad: well I think it’s time I start researching for semi’s
Mike: yeah, damm we are gonna rock this
Adil: umm…. I’m gonna just go for a walk
Jake: What? Adil… where you goi………
(adil walks out of room)
(Adil leaves hotel)
Adil(TIH): this is it, the end of my debate career? Why like this…. And WTF doesn’t Texas have any sidewalks, Maybe because the people are too fat to leave their air conditioned room …….
(Adil vents on for twenty more minutes but as he crosses the road his cell phone drops and Adil accidently hits the green call button)
(cell phone calls most recent caller: Claire Christensen)
Phone: Hi you have reached Claire, I’m not hear right now leave a message after the beep
Adil: hey, Claire this is Adil, umm I just hit the green button on the phone, yeah…. I didn’t make it, and I just wanted talk……….
(twenty minutes more of walking)
(a cop car puts on it’s lights and stops over)
Cop: excuse me sir stop over there
Adil: umm, is there a problem
Cop: what are you doing wondering around these areas?
Adil: well I was just at a debate tournament that didn’t go so well, and I just needed a walk. Is there any sidewalks around here at all?
Cop: (looks into Adil’s eyes)
Adil(TIH): god he must think I’m high
Cop: well there really isn’t, your actually in between two terminals at an airport…… if you want to go somewhere take the shuttle
Adil: thanks….
(Adil heads back to hotel)
(Phone rings)
Phone: hey Adil, what’s going on
Adil: hey……Claire……yeah, things aren’t going to well here………
(Adil enters room)
Jake: Adil, Where were you
Adil: I just needed a walk
(on the TV Dallas loses to Miami)
Adil(TIH): good, the State of Texas can go to Hell
The Adventure begins
Mike Maione: let’s go play pool
(Adil, Jake, Mike walk downstairs)
(start a pool game)
Random kid: hey, you guys in the national tournament
Adil: not anymore
Kid: cool
(Adil, Jake and mike Continue game)
Kid: wow you guys are probably the worst pool players I’ve ever seen. See I teach pool at this place……
Adil(TIH): somebody has a big ego
Kid: here let me play
(kid hands Adil a five dollar bill)
Adil: ok
(The kid plays a game of solids and stripes team while being on Adil’s team)
(Adil and the Kid lose
Balls made in by Mike: 4
Balls made by Jake: 3
Balls made in by Adil: 5
Balls made in by the Master pool playing kid: 0
(The game ends)
Kid: yeah I’m just not used to the felt, the table’s felt is just to tight, not like the ones back home……
Adil: ok, umm … .we’re gonna go…. Nice knowing you
Kid: bye
Jake: Nice knowing you? He isn’t gonna die
(The group enters the hotel room)
(Adil looks out window)
Adil: hey Mike, the cop told me if we get on that shuttle we can go see other places.
Mike: The cop?
Adil: Mike take me there
Mike: umm I think I know how to get on that
(five minutes later the group enters a bus)
Mike: I think this takes us there
(the bus goes far away from the airport)
Adil: umm I don’t think we are going the right way
Bus driver: Don’t worry, I think you guys want to get to trinity rail station, just hop onto Bus C
Jake: maybe we should tell Hurley first?
Adil: don’t worry about it
(ten minutes later)
(the group exits bus and find themselves in a full on Train Station)
Adil: umm, Mike… I don’t think this is the little blue shuttle I wanted to go on
Jake: I think we should head back…..
Conductor: THE TRAIN FOR DALLAS WILL BE LEAVING IN TWO MINUTES, NEXT TRAIN COMES IN AN HOUR
Adil: hey Jake, wanna go to Dallas?
Jake: umm…. I don’t know, I guess we could?
Adil: Let’s go!
(the rest of the story is way to long to post hear and it loses it’s value when not told verbally, but it involves a drunk driver, The West End, a mysterious appearance by Adil’s far away cousin, a tower to far, and more luck than a shamrock at the end of rainbow attached to wood that was struck by lightning twice.)
(after we come back)
Brad Dlatt: hey we picked up our medals for qualifying for semis, hey Adil… Did you pick up your medal yet? (laughs)
Adil: (gives an evil stair)
Adil: I will melt your medal and make a bullet out of it like in the Patriot, then I will shoot you with it.
Back Home:
Adil: I don’t know, I just can’t get over this feeling of being Incomplete. So much more I could of done at Dallas.
Claire: you did your best and that’s what happened
Adil: sigh…. I just don’t know
Claire: I'll be a nerd and quote from batman begins, "what do we do when we fall?........ we get back up"
Adil(TIH): She couldn’t of said it better
Person of the Blog: Jake Grubman
It’s been great knowing the future Captain of the Debate team through this trip. It was great just hanging out with a kid, watching him joke around about common stuff, seeing people stand in awe of his afro and just seeing him as a person outside of debate. I roomed with Jake before at one of the debate tournament and he has changed much since. Like an Allstate insurance policy, I know the Debate team is in good hands with Jake. |