Eid Mubarak! I'm Saffia and I'm at Newnham College.
My name's Ibz Mo and I'm a second-year
Psychology student at Wolfson College.
So today is the celebration for Eid and we've done a garden party here at Harvey Court gardens.
Just for a place for people to come and celebrate it's also kind of a leavers' event as well,
to say goodbye to the ISoc members
that it's their last year, which is quite sad.
We've got food, henna, performances and it's just nice for everyone to come together not everyone
can go home so it's nice for there to be
something that they can come to.
We've just finished exam season and we've just
finished Ramadan so it's the perfect way
for students to come out and celebrate, we've got
quite a lot of members in Cambridge who are Muslim,
so it's just a good way to get together regardless of whether your home is thousands of miles away;
Cambridge can be your home as well.
So I joined ISoc from day one and I
come from somewhere that doesn't really
have many Muslims so I was really
excited, I know there's not a lot here
but there's still a nice community feel and I was really excited about there not being the only one.
So I joined straightaway and honestly this is really
cringey but ISoc has been amazing
for me it's been so supportive
most of my friends are from ISoc and
it's been really nice, they're always
there if you need it and now I'm on the 
committee I'm the publicity officer
so I would like to make sure that the next 
freshers coming in have the same experience.
For me, so I'm a second year here and
in my first year I didn't join ISoc at all,
I think that's just because I
didn't know that much about it and
I came from a Muslim background at home
and to be honest I didn't know how to pray
I didn't integrate with my Muslim 
community until I joined this year, so even as
a second year I was still able to integrate with the community with the students here and it's been great,
I've learned so much even about my own religion, in
the sense that it's really helped my spirituality.
It's just made me feel a lot more comfortable
and I think that when you're surrounded
by students who are similar to you it
definitely makes you feel comfortable in
a place like Cambridge where
you're supposed to study nonstop.
So it's been really good even as a second
year joining late, I've still got a home here.
Everyone's welcome!
