I helped my cousin sister with her homework today – it was fun you know, even though I took over – I shoved her out the way like a maniac and rearranged it all to suit me.. rather than her – oh gosh, it was lethal, it really was.

I hope I helped though, because homework is hard and stuff and it’s crazy the amount they get and um (ok I’m looking for excuses to excuse my weird geeky overdrive). The topic was Real Superheroes (yes I think the Superhero part is why I was so crazy). Real Superheroes, so who are they really? It’s true you know, we do think about Superheroes being Superman and the rest of Justice League but seriously what about the ones without the healing properties, or web-throwing whacka jacka (yep I made that up.)

So does the term ‘Superhero’ have to be used on make-believe characters with the special gifts and powers? Perhaps not.

What about mothers and fathers and protesters and firemen and policemen and some celebrities and authors and um um um!?

Anyway back to the homework thing. Her homework was a catch-up for missing school on Friday (because of Eid) I sweaarrr we never got catch up work that we had to go in and get if we missed a day! Weird. Plus it says to spend four hours on it – Independent Learning it’s called. My cousin and I spent SIX hours on it – non stop (except to pray and eat which ok cuts about an hour but still – 5 hours!) This actually doesn’t surprise me. I have a thing about getting things wrong – mainly in my writing and the layout of stuff. But my cousin, I must have tired her out – correction I DID TIRE her out.

But it’s done. Yay – on Real Superheroes – the ones she chose were from a list given to her by a teacher out of which she selected: Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela, oh and Anne Frank (she chose this one herself – I wonder if I could write anything as inspirational as her diary – what I would I name it? Kitty maybe – I kid. Probably like Khadija or something – grinno).

I did find that there weren’t too many people that could be considered as inspirational on that list so I fixed that and selected a number of pictures off google to illustrate who I thought was inspirational (ok no I didn’t select. My cousin helped so WE selected.) Some of my input was Native Deen, John Register’s Café and Will Smith (heh.. heh.. heh whatttt! They were for decoration), while hers were more real, Yusuf Islam, Amir Khan and Muhammad Ali (‘brap’ – I’m getting the hang of this really!)

Oh and we ended with a sort of slogan (likewise I’ll end this with the same one – *copyrighted* ahem)

‘Real Heroes continue to inspire both the Present and the Future.. KaPow’