Hello and welcome back to another project! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (THIS PROJECT IS VERY BIG AND WILL GLITCH A LOT, SO PLEASE SPAM THE FLAG AND WATCH 2-3 TIMES OR USE TURBOWRAP FOR BETTER QUALITY AND ON TIME ANIMATION) TurboWrap link for smoothest and best result : https://turbowarp.org/1045570561 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ayyy finally posted this burden that has been lying around in my unshared projects since almost last year XD So I have been working on this project since AUGUST of 2023 and kept losing motivation, but then when I got motivation back, I didn't like my project because my skills had improved and the project contained old skills I had, so guess what? I redid the entire thing. I was pressured by school, exams, competitions, and life basically, so I left the project for a while and worked on other content that would be easier and faster to make, but then went back on this project to finish it up after Ramadan since this project contains music and I restricted music completely during Ramadan. So this is the journey of this project! Thank you everyone for your beautiful respect and patience with me on Scratch as I cannot always post content depending on the type of project and how much time I have available to me. I appreciate you all my friends, fans, supporters, and followers!! ~~~ Sorry for the looong intro, now time to get into the explanation of the project!! It's quite long, but will help understand the project. BUT FIRST before you read it, the character you see most often, a teenage hijabi girl (with her hijab on and off) is me. My mom in the beginning and airport part, and my 2 little brothers in the airport part. The memories after that get messy with the characters, but they are basically my relatives. I decided to put the explanation into the Credits section which I never use but I did due to it being too long to fit here, sorry about that ;-; ~~~ Now getting into some stuffs.... The characters of my relatives got deleted while I was working on this project due to me switching my computer since my old one broke, so the characters probably/may look different sorry about that. I know the entire thing looks lazy and put together last minute, but I actually spent over 12 HOURS or something like that, not 12 hours STRAIGHT, but spread over around a few 10 months or so. As I said, I lost motivation for this project when I started it around August 2023, but around June 2024 I forced myself to finish this old project. It took me a ton of screenshots, over 120 screenshots to get this thing together. ;v; This is probably one of my biggest projects, since in my opinion, it's actually pretty long. When I got back to this in June 2024, I actually have forgotten a lot of Gacha animation skills, so it took me a while to catch up on those, so sorry if the animation doesn't look very well ;v; This project is what I call, "one of my de complete messes." If you are confused about the project, please read the explanation I put in the credits section I never put stuffs in, because this is about my Iraq journey. This trip is very emotional and important to me, so this is why you see so many projects that are made based off of Iraq. ;v; Despite all of that, I still hope you enjoy my hard work on this project and thank you for taking your time in this project! I think that's it for de desc. :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CREDITS ~ Code : mostly me, plus some other scratcher for the smooth glide codes ~ Characters/Art : me, Gacha Club, and Scratch Vector for some parts and the edit in the end ~ Audio : Stereo Love by Edward Maya, edited and slowed by Music Factory (YouTube, YouTube MP3 Converter, slightly edited by me on Scratch and Audiomass) ~ Inspo : by Daniel on YouTube ~ Other : Cool Symbol Font Generator, PineTools, Microsoft Edge/Bing, remove.bg, I think that's it :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think that's it for today! tysm for viewing my project, and have a wonderful day! <3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Uni >:D
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EXPLANATION : (I put it here cuz it dont fit in the desc ;-; sorry about that hehe) I realized many of you don't quite know the story about me and Iraq, so here's a brief and very simplified backstory. BACKSTORY ~ When I was younger back in the early years of elementary school, I used to live in Iraq. I lived most of my life there from when I was born there till I was halfway through 3rd grade. ~ During those years, my family used to visit my relatives on both sides VERY OFTEN, which included my uncles, aunts, grandparents, and MOST importantly, my cousins. Since we visited them so often (almost every week!), I got very attached to every one of them at a young age, and even started calling them my "family" (and I still do XD) ~ Once I hit 3rd grade, my dad started thinking of how he could provide a better future for us, since the conditions in Iraq aren't the greatest. He was thinking of going outside Iraq, to the U.S. He worked hard and did some stuff till he got a chance to go to the U.S. My dad let us know of this. ~ At that time, I was an 8 year old who was super excited to see the snow and yellow school bus in the U.S., so I immediately accepted the idea. My mom did too, but thinking we were going to go back, since my dad was only thinking of trying out the U.S., and not a final decision. My brother was a 3 year old at that time, so it didn't really affect the case. So we went to the U.S., saying goodbye to our relatives, not knowing when we will ever see them again. ~ And so we went into the U.S., I struggled at first but them thrived greatly. It was all going well, and I did not miss my relatives too much and not badly at all since I was astonished by the U.S. Everything was great, until I hit the age of 13. ~ Once I turned 13, it had been 5 years since we saw our relatives, since we can go to Iraq, but can't come back to the U.S. because of some VISA problems and ect. As you know, when people become teenagers, they start to notice more things and become emotional. And so, I became emotional, and started missing my relatives really badly. ~ I started having breakouts, bad days, and all I could think about is, "will I ever be able to see them again?" I'm a kid who doesn't like crying in front of their parents, but from the pain I was experiencing, I actually for once broke out in front of my mom, when I saw a photo of my relatives all gathered up on a Ramadan iftar (dinner). This was when I was 13. It was one of the worst times of my life during that time. ~ MAIN STORY ~ The story begins with me asking my mom if we could go to visit Iraq, which simplifies the breakouts and my urge to go back to Iraq. My family WAS NOT restricting me from visiting Iraq, but it was because of VISA problems ad ect, as I have described. ~ My family actually made it a surprise for me by one day just suddenly signing up the tickets! I had exactly known 2 weeks before we went. This is described in the part where it looks like I am calling someone and telling them the news. ~ The part of me running and the airport part was to describe the basic units of my journey. No clarification is needed for them :) ~ The second part where it shows me running towards my relative(s) shows basically how much I've missed them and what actually happened. ~ The rest of the "middle" section is REAL memories I have made with all of my relatives, which I tried best to create using Gacha Club XD These memories are pretty breif and don't show much because I am limited by using Gacha Club to show them ;v; ~ FINALLY, last but not least, at the end of the middle section it shows when I finished my trip in Iraq and had to leave my family, really painful part for me ;( ~ And the edit shows how I felt when I was in the plane, knowing I won't see my loved ones for another 2 years or so ;( It was the worst part, because I was trying so hard not to cry so I won't hurt my mom or brother and make them feel sad, and this was my last view of the Iraq city lights, knowing this is the last time I might ever see my loved ones and my homeland... Damnnnn you read all that? if you did, comment "I did the impossible" just so I could see who read it XD I wrote half of this entire desc during August 2023, and finished it around June 2024, so there might be some differences hehe sorry this is probably the most messed up project you are ever going to see XD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
