Just another day at university

I didn't write much in this blog because I couldn't thin of anything to write; because I couldn't think of the purpose of this blog and everything I could think of writing about sounds personal and so I just post it somewhere else.

From this day, this blog is to write about my life. I will write about every day's incidents in my life; a young Muslim and Arab women enjoying her years in university.

A group of university students from America visited the university and I was one of the students who represented our university and met them, which was really interesting even though at some point it felt as if the main purpose of this is for our university to take pictures and write about it in newspapers which was really frustrating.

It took place in the Medicine College since that is the only university campus in which female and male students can have easy access. They first made a presentation and then showed a very boring video about the university, almost everyone was falling asleep while watching it and then suddenly it said 'laptop is running out of battery' and turned off, which was really fun and everyone woke up and laughing and was happy again.

After we went to a conference room and the students met the vice chancellor and asked him few questions. When he left they took the 'male' students to another conference room and we stayed to talk with the female students and they asked us many interesting questions and we wanted to talk more but they made us leave!

Most of the questions where about our culture and Islam and our views as women about them all, they said that since they came they never got the chance to talk to women and really wanted to talk more to us, I didn’t even get to ask them anything.

If we talked more they would have realized that we are younger than them, around 3 to 5 years? I'm just guessing here.

We will try to do this again, but next time we will ask them to stay longer and visit all the campuses and meet more students; the university should just realize that the point of it is not related to media, we need these people to come and see and learn more about our culture and religion.

(the picture was taken last spring on Mosaic day in the university when more than 8000 students put a piece of mosaic in the border of the largest mosaic in the world - it's supposed to be anyways. The mosaic is now in the university's Maqam campus)