OOC: Application Take 2~~~~~
OOC:
name: Stitch
experience: Feliciano and Conner from Lolocracy~
e-mail / IM: hatterismadder (aim)
IC:
nation: Republic of Somalia
name: Aziza Jawdat Macalinweyne
nickname(s): Az or Zizi
age: 29
date of birth: July 1, 1982
hometown: Mogadishu, Somalia
occupation: Shadow Assistant dance instructor at LU
residence: Apartment at Centralia apartments, 5th floor
family: Arabic mother: Nashwa Seif (55), Somali father: Nadif Macalinweyne (57), Cousin: Jo (South Africa), tons of cousins [other African nations?]
first impression: Holy shit, what is she wearing?!
TEN TRUE FACTS AND A SECRET.
1) Aziza’s parents separated when she was 6, mostly because Nashwa couldn’t stand being in the capital and hated how often Nadif was gone fishing. Aziza spent most of her life living with her father, one of the best fisherman on their side of the Somali coast. Her life was pretty much run by chaos when she stayed with him but the girl thrived on it. She begged her father every night to tell her tales about the high seas and random skirmishes in the streets, absorbing the details like a little sponge and applying them to her own self. With all the fighting breaking out from political problems she also learned to fight from her father and older brother. Her goal in life was to be a great fisherman/mercenary like him. In contrast, when she visited her mother, things were on the opposite end of the spectrum. Nashwa was always on the move with her side of the family, always in one part of Africa or another visiting. Aziza was expected to be a good little girl, learn to weave and make pottery and all those other things she had no interest in when she was with her. Still, she’s a very diverse woman from the two methods of being brought up. The reluctantly cultured warrior at your service~
2) The only reason Aziza is in America is to move further along with her career in dance. She may never go beyond teaching and small competitions but America has far more opportunities for those things than Somalia. Her father wouldn’t allow her to join his trade, her mother only wanted to marry her off to some nice boy from Ethiopia or another from Kenya, or that one from who knows where, and all the traveling and being told she couldn’t follow in her fathers footsteps bugged the hell out of her.
Things got really hectic when she was 19 and the civil war broke out. Boy did things get ugly and fast. Her father joined a gang of men to become a widely feared pirate group that started attacking the huge ships passing their coasts. He father didn’t let her go along and fight like she wanted, insisting ‘Girls should stay at home’, but she did manage to learn how to use an AK-47 and a PKM, along with her knife skills from various neighborhood boys that her father charged to protect her. A few martial arts moves and a mean left hook never hurt a girl either. Life was very dog eat dog after that and she was constantly hiding in the house and darting down the street; she lost count of how many close calls she had after the first 3 months. The bullet scar through her right thigh will always remind her you can never be too careful though.
3) Living by the sea her whole life Aziza is practically a fish. It was one of the reasons she didn’t choose to live in the middle of the US, no matter how much cheaper it might have been, or someplace else far from the water. Liberty was basically perfect. Nearly every day of the summer she’s out on the sands and in the waves, reminiscing about home and having a grand old time. The only thing that would make it better would be if she could finally pay off the man for the boat she’s been eyeing~
Dance. It's one of her obsessions, it‘s her passion, her goal in life besides piracy. It must have been her mother’s attempts at teaching her different dances from a young age, or seeing her distant cousins having all that fun playing music and watching films. She doesn’t like that stuffy type of dancing like ballroom though. Who wants stiff controlled movements that must be done in perfect order? She never gets how people like dancing like that... No, she's more into the exotic and no, not stripping exotic and passionate type of dance. Like belly dancing and the tango and crumping. If it doesn't require a fiery ball of emotion and passion it isn't worth her time. She'd sooner strangle herself with ribbons than wear ballet shoes. She even got in a fight with a ballet major once in college that ended with the girl in the hospital... Thankfully there was no evidence~
4) At 22 she packed her bags, moved to the USA. It was hell trying scrape up money the years before but she’d managed to get enough for a one way plane ride and part of her schooling. Goes to show you that living on less than two bucks a day can make a girl thrifty, every cent she ever got was used. She said goodbye to her father and left him to his pirating to travel across the continent to say goodbye to mother as well and then she was off to the states. She got Major in dance at the Academy of Performing Arts a few cities away, working her butt off with several part time jobs to pay for the schooling and commuting everyday from Liberty. After applying to a handful of nearby places she was accepted at LU and the rest is history.
4) Aziza loves, like loves so much she would marry the screen writers and have an entire harem of them, Bollywood films. Action, romance and old story telling all in one, they are the greatest things on this planet! She actively searches out movie stores whenever she has spare money usually she ends up having to go to the swap meet though to get her guilty pass time. She also buys anything 'Somaliwood' as well and has copies of Xaaskayga Araweelo, Rajo and Warmooge, which she insists are the best and will force anyone who comes over to watch them... they are in Somali though and there are no subtitles other than Arabic so most people don’t understand what’s happening. Pop music of any kind also has a special place in her heart. It’s easy to dance to and always catchy; her collection ranges from Somali to the few good American one to British and even Asian. Techno’s trying to wiggle its way in as well and doing a damn good job at making her fall in love with it.
5)Aziza is a Sunni Muslim, though... not really good one. She grew up with the faith practiced by her father and knows the holidays and religion but doesn't believe she'll be condemned or anything for breaking a few rules once in a while... Like during Ramadan. Staying up all night to eat or watch her movies isn't an option if she wants to terrorize the teacher and students be functional at work the next day. Of course there are also the times she forgets that it's even the month of fasting and only remembers after a few days. Sticking to a few of the beliefs though, she will never eat pork (knowingly) or gamble, but does indulge in the occasional drink or two, or several.
6)Along with the random mixings of bodily assault she can inflict upon an attacker she also carries along two little friends wherever she goes. And no, not the guns she learned to use back home. Those are illegal… though so are her little friends. The first is a gorgeous switch blade that she hides in her top. It was a present from her dad on her 13th birthday so she could defend herself. The second is a dagger that is strapped to her thigh, hidden under her skirts/sarong. So far she hasn't had to use then, or been caught with them, and she hopes that luck continues.
7) Surprisingly, Aziza wasn't always the bodalicious babe she is now. Them curves came naturally, eventually, and her childhood friends and cousins found it hard to believe she was the same girl. She was a rather late bloomer, like age 16 late, and when she went around some something other than long skirts and a dress she was mistaken for a boy. Which was often since she lived along the coast and hated the dry breezes lifting her skirts. Even when she did dress properly though she was still thought to be an odd boy in his sisters clothes. There were plenty of bruises and scratches for her male cousins who teased her and 'mysterious' hair accidents with some of the more pushy female ones. They learned to stop being little dickholes when she did mature though. Who looks like a cross-dressing boy now?
8) She may be dirt poor ( being a teacher doesn't pay good at all ) but she can be good at spending and saving alike. Blame her upbringing and the fact they lived on 2 bucks a day. Sure her apartment is crap but its comfortable with piles of pillows and blankets and she only owns a few pots, pans, bowls and the provided stove and fridge, has to use paper plates most of the time along with plastic silverware filched from restaurants, but she still has some money. Enough to own a rather crappy TV with an ancient DVD and VHS combo player and a dinosaur of a desktop computer with a stolen connection. She got both at the swap meet and the computer loves to crash and die on her. Though that might just be because she's a pirate and illegally downloads everything from recipes to music to nail tips. So far she hadn't been caught by Liberty's finest though.
9) Her favorite things to make in her shitty apartment though are either home classic from Somalia or spicy foods. Spicy food triumphs though, the mixing of spices and seasoning make a fiery mix that reminds her of dancing. That and its plain freaking amazing if made properly. It’d be wise to not accept food from her if your tolerance for heat is low - be warned because she often adds more “oomph” than a dish really needs.
10) Sugar cane is one of her few weakness'. Not the crappy imitation American shit but the good, old fashioned imported stuff. Give her some proper sugar cane and she'll probably be convinced into nearly anything. Adding a good, new Bollywood film that isn't in her collection wouldn't damper your chances either. And some curry or other spicy food.
11) Back home a man was held in high esteem if he could recite poems and tongue twisters without faltering to his guests and hosts alike. Growing up around it the idea has ingrained itself in Aziza's mind that men who speak well are rather charming. To put it simply, she has a secret fetish for eloquent men.
THIS IS ILLEGAL, SO THEREFORE A SECRET:
• Not surprisingly back home things were rather lax on just about everything and anything from firearms to drugs. Jaad was common all around for gunsmen, students and those men who went on drinking binges every night. Aziza is no stranger to the drug and managed to smuggle a small bush of it from home that she keeps in a pot in the corner of the apartment. Along with a few bags of already dried leaves she occasional seeps for tea to keep her up, less hungry and more aware on the more sleepy days.
THIS IS EMBARRASSING, SO THEREFORE A SECRET:
• Aziza has a toy camel that has been with her since she was very little. It was made by her grandmother on her father's side and got named Cardamon, after her favorite spice. It has several patches by now and is missing an eye but is still her most prized possession. Bad talk camels in her presence and you'll meet a perfectly manicured punch to the face or gut.
name: Stitch
experience: Feliciano and Conner from Lolocracy~
e-mail / IM: hatterismadder (aim)
IC:
nation: Republic of Somalia
name: Aziza Jawdat Macalinweyne
nickname(s): Az or Zizi
age: 29
date of birth: July 1, 1982
hometown: Mogadishu, Somalia
occupation: Shadow Assistant dance instructor at LU
residence: Apartment at Centralia apartments, 5th floor
family: Arabic mother: Nashwa Seif (55), Somali father: Nadif Macalinweyne (57), Cousin: Jo (South Africa), tons of cousins [other African nations?]
first impression: Holy shit, what is she wearing?!
TEN TRUE FACTS AND A SECRET.
1) Aziza’s parents separated when she was 6, mostly because Nashwa couldn’t stand being in the capital and hated how often Nadif was gone fishing. Aziza spent most of her life living with her father, one of the best fisherman on their side of the Somali coast. Her life was pretty much run by chaos when she stayed with him but the girl thrived on it. She begged her father every night to tell her tales about the high seas and random skirmishes in the streets, absorbing the details like a little sponge and applying them to her own self. With all the fighting breaking out from political problems she also learned to fight from her father and older brother. Her goal in life was to be a great fisherman/mercenary like him. In contrast, when she visited her mother, things were on the opposite end of the spectrum. Nashwa was always on the move with her side of the family, always in one part of Africa or another visiting. Aziza was expected to be a good little girl, learn to weave and make pottery and all those other things she had no interest in when she was with her. Still, she’s a very diverse woman from the two methods of being brought up. The reluctantly cultured warrior at your service~
2) The only reason Aziza is in America is to move further along with her career in dance. She may never go beyond teaching and small competitions but America has far more opportunities for those things than Somalia. Her father wouldn’t allow her to join his trade, her mother only wanted to marry her off to some nice boy from Ethiopia or another from Kenya, or that one from who knows where, and all the traveling and being told she couldn’t follow in her fathers footsteps bugged the hell out of her.
Things got really hectic when she was 19 and the civil war broke out. Boy did things get ugly and fast. Her father joined a gang of men to become a widely feared pirate group that started attacking the huge ships passing their coasts. He father didn’t let her go along and fight like she wanted, insisting ‘Girls should stay at home’, but she did manage to learn how to use an AK-47 and a PKM, along with her knife skills from various neighborhood boys that her father charged to protect her. A few martial arts moves and a mean left hook never hurt a girl either. Life was very dog eat dog after that and she was constantly hiding in the house and darting down the street; she lost count of how many close calls she had after the first 3 months. The bullet scar through her right thigh will always remind her you can never be too careful though.
3) Living by the sea her whole life Aziza is practically a fish. It was one of the reasons she didn’t choose to live in the middle of the US, no matter how much cheaper it might have been, or someplace else far from the water. Liberty was basically perfect. Nearly every day of the summer she’s out on the sands and in the waves, reminiscing about home and having a grand old time. The only thing that would make it better would be if she could finally pay off the man for the boat she’s been eyeing~
Dance. It's one of her obsessions, it‘s her passion, her goal in life besides piracy. It must have been her mother’s attempts at teaching her different dances from a young age, or seeing her distant cousins having all that fun playing music and watching films. She doesn’t like that stuffy type of dancing like ballroom though. Who wants stiff controlled movements that must be done in perfect order? She never gets how people like dancing like that... No, she's more into the exotic and no, not stripping exotic and passionate type of dance. Like belly dancing and the tango and crumping. If it doesn't require a fiery ball of emotion and passion it isn't worth her time. She'd sooner strangle herself with ribbons than wear ballet shoes. She even got in a fight with a ballet major once in college that ended with the girl in the hospital... Thankfully there was no evidence~
4) At 22 she packed her bags, moved to the USA. It was hell trying scrape up money the years before but she’d managed to get enough for a one way plane ride and part of her schooling. Goes to show you that living on less than two bucks a day can make a girl thrifty, every cent she ever got was used. She said goodbye to her father and left him to his pirating to travel across the continent to say goodbye to mother as well and then she was off to the states. She got Major in dance at the Academy of Performing Arts a few cities away, working her butt off with several part time jobs to pay for the schooling and commuting everyday from Liberty. After applying to a handful of nearby places she was accepted at LU and the rest is history.
4) Aziza loves, like loves so much she would marry the screen writers and have an entire harem of them, Bollywood films. Action, romance and old story telling all in one, they are the greatest things on this planet! She actively searches out movie stores whenever she has spare money usually she ends up having to go to the swap meet though to get her guilty pass time. She also buys anything 'Somaliwood' as well and has copies of Xaaskayga Araweelo, Rajo and Warmooge, which she insists are the best and will force anyone who comes over to watch them... they are in Somali though and there are no subtitles other than Arabic so most people don’t understand what’s happening. Pop music of any kind also has a special place in her heart. It’s easy to dance to and always catchy; her collection ranges from Somali to the few good American one to British and even Asian. Techno’s trying to wiggle its way in as well and doing a damn good job at making her fall in love with it.
5)Aziza is a Sunni Muslim, though... not really good one. She grew up with the faith practiced by her father and knows the holidays and religion but doesn't believe she'll be condemned or anything for breaking a few rules once in a while... Like during Ramadan. Staying up all night to eat or watch her movies isn't an option if she wants to terrorize the teacher and students be functional at work the next day. Of course there are also the times she forgets that it's even the month of fasting and only remembers after a few days. Sticking to a few of the beliefs though, she will never eat pork (knowingly) or gamble, but does indulge in the occasional drink or two, or several.
6)Along with the random mixings of bodily assault she can inflict upon an attacker she also carries along two little friends wherever she goes. And no, not the guns she learned to use back home. Those are illegal… though so are her little friends. The first is a gorgeous switch blade that she hides in her top. It was a present from her dad on her 13th birthday so she could defend herself. The second is a dagger that is strapped to her thigh, hidden under her skirts/sarong. So far she hasn't had to use then, or been caught with them, and she hopes that luck continues.
7) Surprisingly, Aziza wasn't always the bodalicious babe she is now. Them curves came naturally, eventually, and her childhood friends and cousins found it hard to believe she was the same girl. She was a rather late bloomer, like age 16 late, and when she went around some something other than long skirts and a dress she was mistaken for a boy. Which was often since she lived along the coast and hated the dry breezes lifting her skirts. Even when she did dress properly though she was still thought to be an odd boy in his sisters clothes. There were plenty of bruises and scratches for her male cousins who teased her and 'mysterious' hair accidents with some of the more pushy female ones. They learned to stop being little dickholes when she did mature though. Who looks like a cross-dressing boy now?
8) She may be dirt poor ( being a teacher doesn't pay good at all ) but she can be good at spending and saving alike. Blame her upbringing and the fact they lived on 2 bucks a day. Sure her apartment is crap but its comfortable with piles of pillows and blankets and she only owns a few pots, pans, bowls and the provided stove and fridge, has to use paper plates most of the time along with plastic silverware filched from restaurants, but she still has some money. Enough to own a rather crappy TV with an ancient DVD and VHS combo player and a dinosaur of a desktop computer with a stolen connection. She got both at the swap meet and the computer loves to crash and die on her. Though that might just be because she's a pirate and illegally downloads everything from recipes to music to nail tips. So far she hadn't been caught by Liberty's finest though.
9) Her favorite things to make in her shitty apartment though are either home classic from Somalia or spicy foods. Spicy food triumphs though, the mixing of spices and seasoning make a fiery mix that reminds her of dancing. That and its plain freaking amazing if made properly. It’d be wise to not accept food from her if your tolerance for heat is low - be warned because she often adds more “oomph” than a dish really needs.
10) Sugar cane is one of her few weakness'. Not the crappy imitation American shit but the good, old fashioned imported stuff. Give her some proper sugar cane and she'll probably be convinced into nearly anything. Adding a good, new Bollywood film that isn't in her collection wouldn't damper your chances either. And some curry or other spicy food.
11) Back home a man was held in high esteem if he could recite poems and tongue twisters without faltering to his guests and hosts alike. Growing up around it the idea has ingrained itself in Aziza's mind that men who speak well are rather charming. To put it simply, she has a secret fetish for eloquent men.
THIS IS ILLEGAL, SO THEREFORE A SECRET:
• Not surprisingly back home things were rather lax on just about everything and anything from firearms to drugs. Jaad was common all around for gunsmen, students and those men who went on drinking binges every night. Aziza is no stranger to the drug and managed to smuggle a small bush of it from home that she keeps in a pot in the corner of the apartment. Along with a few bags of already dried leaves she occasional seeps for tea to keep her up, less hungry and more aware on the more sleepy days.
THIS IS EMBARRASSING, SO THEREFORE A SECRET:
• Aziza has a toy camel that has been with her since she was very little. It was made by her grandmother on her father's side and got named Cardamon, after her favorite spice. It has several patches by now and is missing an eye but is still her most prized possession. Bad talk camels in her presence and you'll meet a perfectly manicured punch to the face or gut.