Blabbering About Things I Want To Remember!

(*Bliary = Blog+Diary)

Okay, Dear Bliary*,

For the past three months I've been through so many new and beautiful experiences that I wanted to blog about as soon as I've been through each and every one. This is supposed to be a diary.. You know, a day by day or an event by an event thing? But, unfortunately for me, there's this thing called procrastination. And what's even more unfortunate is that I give in to it. (Something new to add to my goals: STOP PROCRASTINATING!)

So, because the longer it takes, the less that I want to work on it, I'm gonna tell you the most important events that happened since March!

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One:

At the end of March, my family and I had an amazingly beautiful trip.

We headed to Frankfurt, Germany, then to Paris, France, after that.

I didn't even think it could be this beautiful of a trip. I honestly didn't.

But I'm not going to talk about it here and now; talking about it needs a separate blog post. And I have yet the videos of the trip to make and upload on YouTube.

So, until then,

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Two: (April 23rd, 24th)

Aramco's Library Week Event of 2015!

I was the photographer volunteer of the event, so, naturally, I made a video. [And took photos, too.]

It was such a good thing to do before the final exams.

The two days that I worked as a volunteer with them were at the King's park in Aramco. And the first day was in the outdoors, but the second day was inside the library because of the suddenly windy weather.

The writer, Sadeem Al-Nahdi

There were writers in the event. Different kinds of writers, and what's really special about the writers thing is that there was a children's book, a very educating one,  and the writer is nine years old! Wow. Ma sha'Allah..

Her parents made her right the lesson that she learned from something that she did. The name of the books is "لن أفشي سراً بعد اليوم", which means "I will not reveal a secret after this day".

It is a very beautiful children's book!

I hope one day I'd be able to teach my own children to write from a young age. ❤️

Since it's the "Library Week Event", there has to be books in there, right? Right.

There were so many books to buy there..

I bought three books; two by Dr. Saud Al-Shaalan and one by Ms. Hitaf Al-Ammar. (All three books were signed by the authors to me. And it makes me so happy!)

Plus, Dr. Saud is a graphologist, SOOO, I had my handwriting analysed :D

* Graphology is the study of handwriting especially for the purpose of character analysis.

The dinner at the end of the event with
the entire crew, the writers, and the volunteers.

It's been such a wonderful time, and a wonderful experience. Especially getting the time to talk to those writers and getting into discussions with them.

That day, I realised something.. All I really need to have fun is a good friend, accomplishments and myself.

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Three: (April 30th)

MIS3!!!

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM'S
THIRD GATHERING!

The purpose of this gathering is two main things:
1. Enlighten those who want to get to know the Management Information System's major a bit more.

2. Give the opportunity to MIS students to share their graduation project ideas and other MIS students to share different projects and topics related to the major.

Organization Committee - The Day Before MIS3

Of course, in order for this forum to be a successful one, all the teaching faculty of MIS put their hands together and made different committees to organize the gathering and make it as best as it could be.

I registered in the Informative Committee. (The one responsible of the photography of the gathering, posting and updating the information on the social media of the event.. and so on.)

There was a good number of some talented girls with me in the committee, Ma sha'Allah.

I will always remember the teaching faculty of our major.. Those instructors are few of the most amazing people that I have met.. Mr. Osama Badawi, Mrs. Noor Al-Arji, Ms. Asyah Al-Kaabi, Ms. Rana Al-Zumaie.. They are wonderful instructors and wonderful people. I will always be thankful to have had the chance of meeting them.

Ms. Asyah Al-Kaabi, who was the supervisor of the committee, is such an amazing person that have been helping us, listening to what we have to say and guiding our way through everything! (plus, I appreciate her genuine patience with all of us).

HACKERS AND APPLE WATCH (just because)

My three friends, Nourah, Najla'a, Rnyah, and I participated in the exhibition of MIS3. This exhibition has only a few ideas and enlightening subjects concerning our major to share with whoever wants to listen. (There were high-school students, students from different colleges, and visitors who just wanted to attend the gathering).

Okay, here's the thing, there's no grades for this thing we participated in. So, it was honestly just something to experience. (And have fun in the process).

We wanted more than one subject, we were four girls, two of us wanted the Apple Watch and the other two wanted to talk about the Hackers. (*whispers* I wanted the Hackers idea). Anyway, when we asked for permission to talk about them both.. WE GOT IT! *yaaaaaaayyy*

The best thing about it, is that all four of us wanted to do it for the mere experience of it, so it was a fun process and we worked together to make it easy on the eye and attractive. (Thank you, Rnyah!) *Rnyah is very talented in decorating stuff..

Nourah and I were responsible of the Hackers subject, and Rnyah and Najla'a were responsible of the Apple Watch.

I won't bore you with the long, long details. So, here's a very cool collection of short videos that I gathered in one video to project on the screen.. COOL HACKERS!!! (but a bit of a criminals) (enjoy it anyway, it's cool)

 Since we cannot be taught by male instructors directly in our college, it was hard for me to comprehend talking to our instructors directly when I first heard that our major's male instructors were coming to talk to us about what we were presenting, and it was the first time ever that this happened in our college.

So when the time came, at 4 p.m., all our instructors and the dean of the college came and talked to us. (WE WERE THE FIRST CORNER TO TALK TO [!!!])

I didn't know what I was supposed to say, so I stuttered a little bit, but it worked out just FINE. And I enjoyed the fact that I wasn't horrible :D

At the end of the day we all got our Appreciation certificates.

Everyone who participated in the exhibition and/or the committee got one.

And, since I participated in both, I got TWO Certificates of Appreciation!!!

To be honest, to be completely honest, I have never in my life thought that I could participate in anything.. Do anything worth mentioning. But, that day, though I didn't sleep nor eat that day, I went back home full of adrenaline.. Completely happy and proud of myself.

That day was so important to me, because I finally disentangled this knot in my mind about my imaginary inability to.. Be.

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Four: (June 5th)

My.. Hair..

So, what about my hair?

June 5th was the first time in my entire life that I cut my hair.

Now, because I wear hijab, I unfortunately cannot describe how I cut it and what's the length of it.

But, I can say this:

The day I cut my hair, is, for me, one of the most HUGE steps that I took in my entire life.

Because cutting my hair, I realized, wasn't just physical. It is mental. As soon as I cut my hair, I felt free.. of sorts..

Nobody even can know how many people have told me NOT to do it. The closest people to my heart actually tell me not to cut it all the time that I started feeling that maybe they would actually hate me if I did it.

But you know, I did it. I did it because I wanted to. Not because I hated my hair before. Not because I wanted to be stubborn. Not because of anything but the mere need to do it.

You know how people go on trips around the world or just simply go out of their ways to try and find themselves? Well, that is exactly what I did when I cut my hair. I found the capability of exploring myself further.

And I honestly, honestly, HONESTLY, thought it would look absolutely HIDEOUS when I cut it. And, even then, I wanted to cut it just as bad. But, you know, it's not even close to being bad.. It actually suits me better.

What I felt after cutting it was true freedom. It literally feels like I'm whole different person, even if it was just physically. When I look in the mirror, I feel like "Yeah.. this is me. Maybe I am on the right track to find myself after all.."

If somebody asks me, what is the best decision that I made, I am, truthfully, going to say that it is cutting my hair. (Until a better decision changes that).

My lesson to myself:

DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, BECAUSE YOU WILL ALWAYS KNOW YOURSELF BETTER THAN ANYBODY EVER COULD.  

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Five: (June 7th)

FIELD TRAINING! 

(AKA A Productive Summer!)

I received a question 10 days ago asking about the field training, but since I already wanted to make a blog post about it, I thought I would answer it with the blog post instead of writing the answer twice..

But before I answer the question I'm going to give general information about it:

Name: AimHigh (for Organizing Exhibitions)

Purpose of the company: literally organizing exhibitions :p

At first I wanted to take the summer training in the Computer Science college, but, subhan-Allah, that did not happen for some reason and I got accepted with AimHigh. (And I'm the only trainee there).

Though exhibitions are not my thing, organizing stuff is.

So, here I am, half way through the third week of the field training.

1st: How is/was it?

It's actually pretty cool, the company is a new one so there is a very small number of employees. Which leads to having a lot of things to do there.
And having a lot of things to do is the best thing you could wish for when your goal for summer is to busy yourself!

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2nd: Advantages?

Field Training/Modeling Done Right

I modeled for them, for one. Haha! It was once.. But, wallah.. It's cool!

And the second is, since I love organizing stuff and not attending the exhibitions, it's an advantage for me to see all these 'behind the scenes' and be able to be a part of the organizing team.

One day before the actual exhibition

The third, and most important advantage for me is this: MAKING VIDEOS!!!
They absolutely loved the idea of video making, and I've made over 5 videos for them so far.
(This is a video of the entire last exhibition. I posted it on their channel on YouTube, but they still haven't shared it in the social media).

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3rd: Disadvantages?

Of course there are disadvantages in everything, so, the disadvantage in the field training for me is that the regular working hours are from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., so it feels like it's in the middle of the day and there's not time do anything in the week days, because I leave home at 8:30 a.m. and get back home at 5:30 p.m. and that's it, the day is over. (Ramadan working hours are from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Which is better).

Another disadvantage for me is that I have so many things to do for the company, but I don't have the authority to do them. So I have to have my supervisor close to me at all times.

Other than that, I'm absolutely thankful for it and for the ability to do something with my time. Because there is nothing that drives me crazy and gets my spirit down more than sitting around, doing nothing.


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4th: Anything I want to say about it?

I WANT A SIMILAR CALENDAR!!!

I absolutely LOVE their calendar..
I really, honestly do!!!
It's so beautiful and very well organized.

I also want to say that, I am thankful for doing what felt like it was right and not going after the field training in college.

Because this is giving me an actual experience outside the virtual borders of college.

It is giving me the ability to know how things actually work in different places.

And I am happy for taking the field training as a summer course!

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“Will power is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.”