today was one of my longiest and full of stress day. After sleeping late yesterday i coudnt wake up 2day morning, I even thought to go to the college late, but I couldnt because i didnt practice for the presentation and it was NATIONAL DAY OF UAE. So i got up and dressed up. I wore uae flag's colour dress and this is my first time iam putting a red color lipstick.

My younger sister came with her freind to the college with me. When some of my class mates saw my sister they were shocked and didnt bleive that she is my sister, because she is white + tall+ thin and very quite and spoiled.
We started our presentation with the national anthem, because it is national day & we know that nobody celebrated because of the work load and to make the girls interested. I prepared well for the present, i even loved my topic. However, in the presentation i got i little tensed becaue because only ten mins was left for me and my part takes more than 10 mins. but i managed to finish my part in ten mins. We got good respond from the girls. they gave us good feedbak ( love my classmates)
after the presentation, me and my group went out to eat sth, we were starving. mr. tridip bougth kushari for us :). then we returned to the class to finish our peer teaching plan :(. After finishing it, @ 4pm I left for the college bus to get back home, but my sister was lost in the college Lol she is so slow looool. so the bus waited for her 20mins but she was still lost, so i had to get off the bus to find her. then me & my sister waited til 6pm for my uncle to pick us from the car.

and now iam writing this blog, & iam gone sleep now. GN

Dubai silicon Visit

today 24th Nov, our whole class went to Emirates Islamic Bank with ms.fahmida. Manager of retail banking and manager of marketing department wanted to see us regarding the EIB awerness campaign that our class did. the managers asked us questions and discussed with us about our opinin and we have learned. the meeting was quik and sweet. and that day me and my gruop stayed till 8 pm to do MIS project...:(

after the meeting, me, saro & nouf went to dubai silicon oasis for an interview with the finance department there. the place was beuatiful it was like iam entering a mall and not a company. the staff was very freindly and smiling. then, we waited for some time in the HR department because they said everyone is busy in finance department. and suddenly the HR depatment said the finance manager wants to see us for the interview. we were shocked because our questions were simple and silly, the question is not apopriat for a manager to ansewr( the interview was for english course). but we didnt have a choice. we were very afraid about wat the manager gona think of us ( finance students with silly quetions), to make my freinds calm down i jokinly said dont wory the manager will be an old indian guy, so its ok.....but when we entered the manager's cabine it was a young local guy, we were shocked to see him, because he was too young too be a finanme manager.

the manager was very freindly and welcoming. he was too kind because he was suddenly informed that some gurls are going to interveiw him+ he was tooo busy. he was answering our quetions + doing his work. I like the manager because he wa talking with us as he knows us and as we are chatting an not intervieng him.

ofter the interview, me saro and nouf went to festival to have lunch @ chilis. then as always, we had to return to the college because we had alot of things to do.

Airshow + parents meeting

Yesterday 18th Nov, I went to Duabi Air Show 2009. Many things happend this day. Shaiyom had an accident in the morning. It wasnt her fault, but still her car was damaged and she had to wait at the accident area for 30 mins and she was late for the college. However she and 9al70 managed to arrive before the bus leaving. Next, because my best freind saro had an interview @ 3 with Al Rostomani, she asked Mr. Tridip if she can drive by herself to the Airshow and surprisingly he agreed so i asked him if i can go with her and obviously he agreed :).
We (saro & Me in the car) were following the bus but @ the intersection we went to wrong direction, but in the end we managed to reach the right place yuppppi. the funny thing was that nobody felt or saw that we went to wrong direction :p.

when we parked the car @ dubai terminal 1, we sat in the college bus while waiting for the tour guide, but suddenly the bus moved but we remain silent because we (saro & me) thought that the bus driver will take us inside the airport because the cars are not allowed. but we were going out, when we were on the road saro asked mr.tridip wats happing? he replayed that the arrshow is in the other terminal and not this and we are going to terminal 2 O.0. Saro said that her car is in terminal 1, but she was clever :p she said its ok she will take taxi to terminal 1.

then we took the public bus to the airshow area, it was fun because this was my first time iam siting in the local transport :). but walking from the bus stop to the airshow for more than 10min in the hot weather wasnt fun :(. finally when we reached there they wanted our IDs for stupid security reasons. and once again saro didnt bring her ID >.<. ms nancy was toooo anoying she was interfering in everthing that we were doing, even when saro forot her ID she said leave her in the reception ( @ that time i was going to kil her), but shaiyoom asked her father fo solution and he sent his freind to give us a VIP ID. so finaly we could enter. then, we attended a workshop of a german defence company which is incharge of UAEs defence. I liked the topic but the presentation was tooooooo boaring + i was hungry. If they talked about there products how do they work ya3ni about there company, i may me interested... after that we had so much fun in the airshow. we saw the VIP planes, we even sat inside them. the most excitin part was when we went to see the UAE militry halicopter. it was black in color. corously i asked if i can sit in the halicoprt, mlitry officers said ofcourse. Me and shaiyom got excited and he said one by one so shaiyom went first, but it was my turn, many guys came to see so i said no i wil not. while we are chatting with the officers a philipono lady cam and asked if she can sit too, but the officer said: NOOOOOO, so she got angry and asked if it is not allowed why sahima sat, he said they are students :). when even went to eat in the organaizeers place ( shaiyoms father sent us the passes) it was so much fun :). & then we saw the planes show, it was 3ajeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeb. on the same day, me and saro karam had to present infront of the parents :(. we were too tired. many parants came that day. me & saro presented & abeer's sister ghadeer was answering the question, she was was amazing. i liked her. after all of that i reached home @ 10 pm, thats why i couldint write the blog..... this day was full of fun, action.

Interview with AMAN insurance company

On 5th Nov, me and group visited AMAN insurance company for an interview. It was a part of Marketing financial services course.
In the morning of that day @ 8 am, me and shiro borrowed a recorder from the library to recode the interview so it will easy for us to have all of the answers, but unfortunately it was useless bcoz didn’t work. Then, Shaiyoom picked us from the college and we went to her house bcoz our interview was @ 11am. Then, Salha came to shaiyooms’ house by her car and all of 4 of us sat in shaiyooms’ car and drive to AMAN. Sara came by herself to the company. The company was in the 1st floor of Gulf tower. We interviewed the deputy manager and manager of marketing department, they were very welcoming and very nice. Eventhough it was 2hrs interview they were patient and answered all of our Qs. Shaiyoom started the interview, then sara and the salha. But when shiro started to ask Mr.Rashid, the deputy manager asked me to asked before shiro, I was shocked and got little angry and I said that I have only few and fat Qs so I will ask in the end. But mr.rashid insist on me asking berofe shiro, at tis point I got very angry (but I didn’t show it ofcourse) and started to ask but I was just looking at the other manager :p and ignored mr.rashid.
After the interview finished, mr.rashid took us for the company tour and shiro took lots of pictures.

Later we went to dubai mall to have lunch. It was amazing, we realy enjoyed our time.

And after all these good stuff, we went back to the college for mr.philips’ class.

School Personal Finance Awareness Campaign – Reflection

Yesterda, on Wednesday 4th of November 2009 we visited Dubai National private school in Al Tawar. We arrived there at 8:30 and started our session at 9:00. We were supposed to meet with 30 students from grade 12, but we met only 17students due to exam conditions. One of the supervisors welcomed us and took us to her office while waiting for the students to finish their class. After about 7 minutes we met with the students in their class room. They looked friendly and little bit unsure about the purpose of our visit.

At first, we wanted to fix up the projector with Sara’s laptop before introducing our selves. Unfortunately, we faced some technological problems. We already had an extra copy of the presentation and the video on flash USB in case of emergency. After many tries to fix the projector it finally had been fixed. We started introducing ourselves and the purpose of our visit. Then, Shaima promoted DWC by giving them an idea about the facilities that we have for example, the Gym, the annual Bazaar activity, sports day and the library. Also we talked about some projects that we did like EIB campaign.

Furthermore, we talked about Al Reem account focusing on the features specially the "zero minimum balance for DWC students" feature. This promotion was done by distributing the book markers from the EIB campaign. After that, Sara played a short video to let them guess what our topic will be about. Most of the students enjoyed the video and guessed the topic. Later, Sara started presenting by going through the slides and the students looked interested.

Next, Salha came up to explain to the students how they can use a simple savings method if their parents didn’t agree to open a savings account for them. The idea was to give the students 6 envelops with a label on each envelop where the student writs the budget for the month, the expenses, the remaining amount, and “My goal for this month”. They all were happy to receive envelops and we mentioned the reason why we gave them only 6 envelops rather than giving each of them 12 envelops. The reason was to make them more interested in savings and boost their creativity as young people.

After all this, Shaikha distributed the feedback to the students and she was in charge to explain and solve any difficulty students might face and later she collected the feedback and give it to Shaima in order to analyze the results. What's more Shaikha was also recording the presentation on the video camera. Shirin was responsible for taking photos of students, presentation, group members and the school. At the end, Salha wrote her Email address on the board in case of any inquires students need regarding DWC or about what we presented.