WHIT I WILL DO IN THIS BREAK?

       I have a lot of things I want to do in this break. first, I want to have a little vacation time in turkey or United arab of emirates which is gonna be planned in the next week or so and after that I will visit my back home country for two or three weeks.
    On top of what i mentioned, I will try learn to drive the car. Also, I hope I can fInd some time to do volunteer at my kids school because of this, I'm thinking to stop my English classes two months or more. I hope what I will do is convenient for me and for my family.

WHAT I LEARNED THIS SEASON

         This season, I had issue with my kids' school , so now I know that communication between parents and the school staff is very important because It makes our kids happy,and feel safe, also that makes cooperation between the parents and school staff very effectively .                                                                          
        Actually ,when I talked with my kids' school, It makes me very comfortable and makes me know the details I need to know. But also I discovered one thing that I think it is more important for anyone, who deal with kids directly, needs first to earn the mandatory skills.

PART OF MY DREAMS

     I have always wanted to help people in pour countries or the people who live in places that are in war . almost all the people who live in rich countries don't care about these kind of problems  or busy with there business . they never stop and  think about them .  for me I think when my kids grow up I will go there and try to help them. that it is part of my dreams . I think every one has ability to support them .We just need to be positive than we can change the world to  be better .

AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT

       The day when I was in middle  school in the recess time.  My shoe ripped, while I was playing with my friends racing,so I couldn't play any more with them because that I sat in the corner for rest of the time,after the recess time finished every student should return to there classes ,so it was necessary for me to go with them, so I walked bare foot ,and I was praying that no body would look down ,and see my foot, but  my best friend saw it  ,and she asked my what happen ,so I told her every thing .it was a surprise for me, when she laughed aloud and a lot .She thought that was funny ,but for me it was very an embarrassing. 

KAUST

       KAUST is an abbreviation for a king Abdullah university for science and technology which is an international university founded near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at 2009 to serve saudi arabia, middle east region and the whole world. It uses English language as an official language and concentrate on graduate studies and advanced research in the fields of Life Sciences, Engineering and Computer sciences. It started by a unique architecture which you will find in the attached video. It has spectacular design and mainly set up for a distinguished saudi and international students who are going to dedicate their career for research. The professors are from allover the globe and online teaching is one its modalities. I am proud that it is part of my country. Also, you can access the following link to know more and more about KAUST.  http://www.kaust.edu.sa

Jeddah Shopping Malls

     Before I came to the states, I was living in Jeddah which is one of the beautiful cities in my home country, saudi arabia. It has roughly more than 20 malls throughout the entire city. When the shopping comes to my mind, I always remember that I missed Jeddah Malls where the shopping, dinning, diversity and kids entertainment. For most of the times, We used to go to the malls as a family where I spend my time shopping in the different stores while my kids having a great times in the theme amusement area and ice skating which almost every single mall has them. Also each shopping center has a Mosque to pray and do your worship.  On some events throughout the entire year and particularly on summer and some of the holidays, the shopping malls prepare a huge stage for different activities, kids and family competitions and having a fun time. Some of these shopping malls have small museums for kids for  entertainment and learning purposes like Jeddah Science Oasis. Here will provide some documentary photos as well as a website of one of the malls that i used to shop in.
 http://www.alandalus-mall.com/en/Home.aspx

My best friend as a child

             
              When I was a child in the elementary school, I got to know one of my best friends who was a girl.  She was honest, patient, nice and tolerant. We played together and shared our stuff. We never be mad from each other.  One day, we met by chance on the beach, we played a soccer and boxing together. she used to win over me all the time except that day on the beach when I dropped her to the ground by mistake so she got injured and we brought her to the hospital where she treated. I thought she was going to hate me but she wasn't even angry to me. When she healed, we played again and continued to study, joke and hangout almost every single day.
           We used to meet in the yard every day after school and every one has seeds to plant the flowers. As the flowers grown up, we were very happy and proud with what have been done. It was a great days and non forgetful memories. 

My Favorite Song

                                                               HEALING'S SONG

            The Song I like is Healing for Sami Yusuf. It has words with great meaning. I learned that we can help and heal the people with even a smile. The Smile is life especially for children. We all can help each other. We don't have to have a lot of money or to do something difficult but instead we have to treat and feel good with each other. You just believe that and practice it in your daily lifestyle. If you make it part of your believe, it will be easy to practice it.

            This singer is a unique star since he can sing with different languages like English, Arabic and others.              

My Hurricane Isaac Evacuation Trip

    We started watching media since Saturday and initially Isaac was Tropical Storm. The expectation was to be upgraded to category 1 and then category 2 which is the one going to hit greater new orleans area. fortunately, it is only upgraded to category 1. My husband was working on Monday and when he came back we decided to evacuate to Houston, Texas  by the next day. On Tuesday, we collected the essential things like documents, food and clothing. After that, we drove  through I10 west after we ensured that the routes are OK. we made arrangement with a hotel to stay and we arrived at 4 pm. We enjoyed three nights and we continued monitoring the weather, road routes and power outages throughout the trip. By Friday, there was no more wind or rain and the power was so we decided to go back through the designated road routes and finally got home at 10 pm. No real damage happen to my home.

EVACUATION PLAN

               How to evacuate effectively from Hurricane? 
    Here are some steps on proper evacuation:
A) you need to be on contact with the emergency management services in your area which is going to be through various methods include; traditional news media, 9-1-1 or reverse 9-1-1, U.S. coast guard marines broadcast, social media like Facebook or twitter and also national weather channel.
B) If evacuation is mandatory, the key is that you and your family respond quickly.
C) Learn proposed evacuation routes, any potential shelters and safe areas
D) Ensure to take essential things like documents, enough food and clothing for anticipating couple days out of your home.
E) Develop good communication plans between family members as well as important personnel to you like friends and neighbors.
F) Plan the transportations to the shelters or wherever the safe area
G) Turn the car radion ON to the emergency alert system and monitor the media closely throughout the whole event.
H) check the road routes and the power outages before deciding to back to your home.
I) Finally, Safety is priority in such an event so STAY SAFE!!!!!

Bkhor

Bkhor

   We ,in Saudi Arabia, always use special perfume  Named in Arabic as a Bkhor and  in English I think it named as incense. It is the type of wood taken from a special kind of trees. Usually we bring it from east Asia. It has a good smell. We use it in weddings and we also use it for a newborn shower party or when guests come to the house . We take a little incense and put it over hot coals and then smoke comes out of it with a great smell. We use it all the time with every celebration we have.  We also consider it as a great gift we can give to others. Some of the incense are very expensive and some of it is cheap, this depends on the kind and quality of the material and the tree  from which extracted. 

    Here is some Photos to this tradition:

That's me

I am Mona assiri from Saudi arabi. I came to USA with my small family. I live at kenner, LA. I am studying English. I am planning to study master in political studies