My family and other animals

(My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrel is an AWESOME book, just saying)

I don't know if its too soon to introduce you to my family...I know, its a big step. Oh, don't worry about thaaaat, I know they'll love you! My mum will stuff food down your throat, and my dad will talk to you about everything under the sun...and my brother, well you won't see him, he's studying in his cave.
Nah shame, I'm being too harsh, its just that he stresses a lot about these things. And since he's doing his honours, I guess he needs to study and all of that. You see, we're both studying the same thing. He's just two years ahead of me - which to some people (not me) makes me the luckiest girl alive!, and to others (me) not so much. I mean, yes, I'm lucky I have his notes and guidance etc etc, but looking at the amount of work and effort he has to put in, its a little off-putting. Who needs a science degree anyway, housewives are probably the happiest people alive!
Probably.

Anyway, my family loves to travel - in a last-minute kind of way. The kind of way where we go all the way to Kashmir and starting hunting for a hotel to stay in. Of course, at the time, it was super fun. Trying to find accommodation for 9 people, I mean. Now, I realise how disturbing it is. You can't just travel halfway across the world with nowhere to stay!!! What if everywhere was booked?? Would we have to sleep in the van (that smelled of coconut hair oil) with the driver? I never realised how eccentric the adult members of my family are.

Of course they never listen to the children because they are always right. Ha! Sometimes, in small matters, its not too bothering, but when you're hiking up Table Mountain and all my cousins and my brother and I are explaining that we're walking on the wrong path to my parents, uncles and aunts, its a different story. Especially if that small deviation took us about 2 hours to get back on the path. While trying to lug up jackets and roll up your long sleeves because "Its going to be cold! You will FREEZE in what you're wearing now!" Fun times with the family.

Even though my family is a little crazy - yes, I have the odd cousin who cuts off her eyebrows by mistake - I really couldn't have asked for a better one! My mum is the most hardworking, loving, AMAZING person on the earth; my dad, the most funny -both intentionally and unintentionally and my brother, well, he's one of the coolest and most irritating! Ag I love you guys! :D

Okay, okay, no need to get emotional, mum.

My name is Shreeya and this is FWMIF, yo.

[PS I wrote this ages ago...just forgot to post it, sorry!]