Spiritual Experience.
As you might know the people who live in this part of the world are, the majority that is, muslims. And I am one of them. I am not an extremist, but I do practice my religion.
In Saudi Arabia there are two holy places for muslims, Makkah and Madinah. I have been to Makkah, where we do Omra every year, but I have never been to Madina till last week. Madina is where the Prophet lived and died and he is buried there. Going to Madina is usually called the “visit” it is like you are visiting the Prophet.
So I was very exited we went with my husbands family and stayed at a large suite in a hotel overlooking the Prophets mosque, it was so nice and spiritual I was crying every time I prayed. And now I can’t wait to visit again. The area was calm, serene and it felt out of this world; like you have to worry about nothing there. I totally loved it.
When you are in a place like that you think about the blessings you have and you find yourself focusing on the real value of life, and my love for my family, my children and my husband grew even more.
I just wonder these days if you are religious, of any religion, you seem to have to defend yourself, how did we get to that, if being a believer is making me feel so good, why should I always find myself in a position to have to defend myself and my beliefs, and I just wanted to say to all believers of all religions, enjoy!...
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Placement
I have no idea what I am going to say. I just feel kind of repressed and want to let go....
OK, does not sound good, let us give it another try.
I want to write about world peace. Ha ha very funny. OK not really funny either.
OK serious now, why not talk about my recent work experience. I needed to do a fieldwork placement for my postgraduate studies course in Information and Library Studies. You only need to do this placement if you don;t have a work experience in the field, and since I did as far as the University is concerned I did not have to. However, I felt that my experience could be slightly limited and decided to take on a placement. I contacted this young college at Jeddah, a ladies only college, things here are separated, there are 2 of everything male-only colleges and female only colleges, male-only banks and female only banks and so on. Back to the point. I particularly felt that my experience was lacking in a sort of conventional library setting so I arranged for this placement.
How did the experience go. As a mother of two I had to make lots of arrangements. I shifted our daily meals schedule, I arranged for my mom to stay with the girls in the morning when I am working. Plus I needed to sacrifice my comfort and the little rest I was getting to do this. Anyhow, I started very exited about it. but unfortunately I was not met with equal enthusiasm, though they seemed very helpful and nice they were scared to give me anything to do, they don’t want me touching the database for instance, I guess they are not used to people wanting to work for free; kind of a strange idea in this culture.
Now what was I saying. I even have no idea when did I start writing this. Not so good I suppose. Well lets see by now I have actually finished the placement and I would say I am 85% satisfied with the outcome. I did experience a more traditional library setting than where I previously worked and I was exposed to all the regularly routine work. I also met some very nice people, the ladies who worked there were extremely kind and nice. If they are a good example of librarians in this country it is excellent.
On another point, my mother who was taking care of the girls in my absence seemed extremely fed up at the end. My husband did not like the schedule and could not quite understand why I am doing this. As for me I did miss the girls so much while I was there, I guess I am like my sister puts it: “Such a mother”...
OK, does not sound good, let us give it another try.
I want to write about world peace. Ha ha very funny. OK not really funny either.
OK serious now, why not talk about my recent work experience. I needed to do a fieldwork placement for my postgraduate studies course in Information and Library Studies. You only need to do this placement if you don;t have a work experience in the field, and since I did as far as the University is concerned I did not have to. However, I felt that my experience could be slightly limited and decided to take on a placement. I contacted this young college at Jeddah, a ladies only college, things here are separated, there are 2 of everything male-only colleges and female only colleges, male-only banks and female only banks and so on. Back to the point. I particularly felt that my experience was lacking in a sort of conventional library setting so I arranged for this placement.
How did the experience go. As a mother of two I had to make lots of arrangements. I shifted our daily meals schedule, I arranged for my mom to stay with the girls in the morning when I am working. Plus I needed to sacrifice my comfort and the little rest I was getting to do this. Anyhow, I started very exited about it. but unfortunately I was not met with equal enthusiasm, though they seemed very helpful and nice they were scared to give me anything to do, they don’t want me touching the database for instance, I guess they are not used to people wanting to work for free; kind of a strange idea in this culture.
Now what was I saying. I even have no idea when did I start writing this. Not so good I suppose. Well lets see by now I have actually finished the placement and I would say I am 85% satisfied with the outcome. I did experience a more traditional library setting than where I previously worked and I was exposed to all the regularly routine work. I also met some very nice people, the ladies who worked there were extremely kind and nice. If they are a good example of librarians in this country it is excellent.
On another point, my mother who was taking care of the girls in my absence seemed extremely fed up at the end. My husband did not like the schedule and could not quite understand why I am doing this. As for me I did miss the girls so much while I was there, I guess I am like my sister puts it: “Such a mother”...
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