"Little Princess" preview

“Little princess” is a book written by Conor Grennan, who explains to us the meaning of his journey to Nepal and how it changed his life in a drastic unexpected way. After working 8 years for the same company Conor gets bored of it therefore he uses his savings to pay for the expenses for volunteering in one of the poorest country in the world. His first thoughts about the trip was to make himself feel better and impress his family and friends which was something he did not accomplish. He spontaneously makes a decision to take a one-year journey, which includes three months volunteering in Kathmandu, Nepal. The 18 orphans he took care of during the civil war were children from poor families that could not keep their children safe. The downhearted conditions and purity of the children’s feelings toward Conor made him soften his heart with them.  Knowing that the children could not take care of themselves brought sorrow to him plus the way of living life was very undeveloped. From spending time with the orphans side by side, the children became like his own family, which furthermore gave him the strength to want to improve the lives of the orphans.  He made a promise to return to them and he did.

Life and living conditions became more familiar to Conor after a good amount of time had passed by making it easier for him to care for the children and help them better. With this increase of interest Conor became aware of a different orphanage that had children that had encountered similar difficulties living. Conor knew that by helping the kids he was capable of doing anything to make a difference in their lives.

 Conor did a fantastic job at keeping the reader engaged in the reading. The content of the book was explained well, easy to follow and was very interesting since he made it more personal. At the beginning I didn’t think the story was going to follow the path it did but I was intrigued with the events taking place. Conor was very good to the children and it amazing how little things can make big differences and especially for those children that at that point had little hope. 

I would highly recommend this book to everyone because it’s not only interesting but it’s also educational. Personally I did not know much about Nepal so my knowledge grew about this country in a way that I least expected.

           

Developing My Writing

 

We are group# 7. Here are the names of the members of the group:

1.       Ahmad Aljahdali

2.       Hasanain Alfarajullah

3.       Zaid Bugshan

I-             Introduction: Everyone should know how to write not just read and listen. Our challenge as international students is how to write in English, so my group and I are going to help you guys with steps that will help all of you with your writing skills.

II-            Body:

Use a variety of writing sources. The sources can help you develop your writing skills, some are very common and some you may have not even considered.

Use internet is also another collective source of writing techniques, and they are not hard to find.

Do some researches. This important step is necessary to give your writing some added value for your readers. While it may not be the most fun aspect of writing, it is something that every writer should be willing to do. Whether you are a weekend book reviewer or a corporate speech writer, your readers will certainly recognize your hard work and quality writing.

Develop confidence. If you don't have confidence there is no need to worry, it may be easier to come by than you think. I always think one important thing to myself, "I could have written that."

Take break if necessary, to combat stress. It helps to step away for moment. Fresh air, a glass of water and cup of coffee cloud provide you with approach to your writing.

Read as much as possible. Exposing yourself to what others have written is a great tool. Read books, newspapers and magazines. This will help you with style, sentence structure and word usage.

 

III-           Conclusion: Finally, I believe that if you put anything as a goal for you, you can reach it there is nothing impassable in this life, we are still learning how to write in English but hopefully in the end of this semester we will be improving our skills so we can become good writers.

Evaluation of "Who Am I"

I evaluated these three people because I have learned many interesting things about their life. The top three posts are:
1.  Faisal Alhajri
2. Ahmed Almnasef
3. ChuYan Gao 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnP8jO60Ju_SdFRrT0FlVlpibjBDaE16VHRLZGVhVkE&usp=sharing

Little Princes

 

 After looking at many adventurous volunteering opportunities he decided that going to Nepal was what he needed to do. Conor had graduated from college eight years ago and needed a radical change in his life. He enjoyed his job yet after working there so long he was bored of it therefore he decided to spend his money on a good deed, volunteering. His previous job had been at the East West Institute, an International public policy think tank out of the Prague office. At this point in his life he was not looking to settle to have a family. He hoped that volunteering in an orphanage would impress his friends to think he was not selfish. Conor was single, did not have a wife nor kids therefore he had enough money saved to spend for a year around the world. While in Nepal one of the worlds poorest country, he went through a dynamic change in his way of viewing the orphans. He knew that He had gone to Nepal for other reasons not the orphans but when he continuously grew closer to the orphans they became like his family so he made sure to let them know that he would be back in one year.

Who am I ?

Everyone in this world has their own personalities, traits, habits etc. its not easy to describe ones self personality because others know you best yet from what I hear continuously Ahmad, myself of course is a Saudi caring person. Caring because when it comes to helping others I don’t see obstacles. Helping others is a way of showing love, is a way of expressions ones feelings and most important of all it makes the person being helped feel great. All of us can think of a situations when we just wished someone would give us a hand to make things simpler, that’s what I like doing making a difference in a person’s life to the best of my ability.

I’m a friendly person. I have countless friends. Sharing silly, crazy, sad, happy moments is leaving a trademark in yesterday’s history. The people I cherish these moments with are a second family to me.

What is honesty? Honesty is what describes me the most. I can’t take a lie from anyone and if I can’t have someone lie to me I cant lie to them either. One thing always leads to the other so why continue on a lie that had no end. I’m not perfect. No one is. We all make mistakes but if we keep things clear form the beginning than there should never be a misunderstanding.

We all deserve respect. I respect others so I have the same expectations of them. It might not work this way but I’d like to think it does.