The Road of sucess and Happiness :D

Do you ever ask yourself at the end of the daytime, what have you done and how did you make use of your time? Anything in life you missed you can redo and do from scratch, but time, time is the only thing you can never get back, a second is a second, a minute is a minute, an hour is an hour, a day is a day and a time lose never found again. And I believe in a very notable sentence I once read by Golda Meir " I must govern the clock, not be governed by it." As simple as this quote must sound, as much as it is more significant and momentous than everything I've ever heard in my life. Actually, you know what, it is so hard to govern your time but once you got, you got it and nothing can easily change it. Time is much more precious than a hundred million tons of gold. In my point of view, there are a million of things that you can buy with money, but things such as time, love and a good character you can never buy with money, you buy it with intelligence, kindness and most importantly is that you buy it when you believe in it. Nevertheless, you have to have some fun in your own life. I am not saying that you should work in every second of your life, but work when you have to, work at school days and the end when you will pass a good year, you will have so much fun and not just any fun, a relaxing and joyful fun with no burdens to hold or pain to suffer. Finally, I can say that the smart person is the one who work, have fun and pass an amazing year. It's Time management, live it, play it and enjoy it.

P.S: " This wasn't a Waste of your time, I am sure that now you are reflecting about time and things you've lately forgot about."

Here are some inspiring quotes about time and its worth:

"Let him who would enjoy a good future, waste none of his present." Roger Babson

"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them." Dion Boucicault

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away." Charles Caled Colton

"Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well." Jonathan Carroll

"But the time we've made it, we've had it." Malcolm Forbes

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough." George Bernard Shaw

"Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important." Mariel Hemingway

"If you don’t have time to do it right, When will you have time to do it over?" John Wooden

"Know how to love the time that is given you." Dario FO     

Money for freedom or Death for revenge??!

                      Since the 25^th of January, we unlocked a new skylight, a new life, we opened a blank page and we typically welcomed changes and a brand new start. In Fact, the situation in Egypt has been unstable, some people see that we made a huge success and others claim that since the 25^th of January life is mysterious, gloomy and full of enigma. Honestly, I believe we got both, we ended with a prodigious success and I deference every person that died during the revolution but I can never deny or nullify that I live in fear since this day. I memorize when criminals escaped from prisons and our men went in streets trying to defend and guard their wives and children. I can remember how my heart beat a thousand times in a second, and cries of my little sisters still ringing in my ears.  But the only event that really made everyone pleased was that finally after thirty years of melancholy and suffers Mubarak and every person who was in authority are in jail. VICTORY???? That’s what I considered but after a while it wasn't victory to me and to many people it wasn't. Mubarak and his followings are in jail but until now after a year and 54 days, they are not yet judged. Actually, what would slaughter too many people is if the Egyptian trial agreed to take money in order to set them free. As in my outlook or opinion, truthfully I don’t know what's right from what's wrong. This question is ambiguous and verbose; as it contains numerous and countless opinions, imagine this: We are 80 million citizens with 80 million opinions, some may be in commune but that's not it. As for me, I have two opinions, firstly I believe that they should be trialed because that was the main goal from the very beginning and their release may probably cause problems all around Egypt and the blood of the youths that was shed would be for nothing. Secondly, I think that in this period of time, we need money to develop and stand on our foot once again and absolutely the money that they will give would be so useful but I imagine that more than half of us would concur on the first opinion. We need a unanimous; we need to agree over one thing in order to make it work out. "A goal that was set in mind can be easily achieved if it comes from our deepest heart." Let's just stand one hand to make it through this chapter, Have you ever read a story composed from only one chapter? It can’t possibly be tangible or even realistic.                          

  

My Personnel Project

Everywhere I walk at school I glimpse little children in C1 and C2 Talking about something they want to do, a new thing for them, the talk about our personnel project. Personnel Projet, two words that defines an entire year. The personnel project is as you can witness something personnel, it’s something you desire to make and no one pull you in it. It's finally the time for us to create what we want without someone telling us you have and you must.

Actually, the personnel project is huge and tough to accomplish and especially in my case. I have chosen to create a touristic guide called "Around the world in 80 pages" that made me go up and down, right and left for a whole year just to do my best in it. The Title is actually inspired from the novel written by Jule Verne "Around the World in 80 days", but in revenge the idea is completely different. I did too much work and I worked really hard to finish it, I had to research 20 countries and it wasn't an easy one, I had to do the following:

For each country:

v  The capital

v  The population

v  The currency

v  The language

v  6 touristic places

v  3 hotels (different classes)

v  Transportation

v  The Kitchen

v  Restaurants and snacks

And after the research I had to read all the information and re-write them with my own words without a single word copied and additional things like the cover and design of the pages, etc.

And as they say Nothings Perfect at the end, after sending my book to be printed I discovered silly mistakes in my book that truly made me cry, because not behind all this work that I have completed several mistakes get a hold in the way and make my guide not as I excepted to be at the end. And the only mistake that really bothered me was that in German, I talked about Amsterdam instead of Berlin, so the title was German and the country I talked about was Holland, It was the shock that felt as if a knife went through my heart deep inside. But in fact it wasn't fair for me since the school first declared that we are suppose to present the final creation at the 16 of February and 5 days before this day, it was postponed for after the vacation. And the problem was that I had already send it to be printed because the man told me it will take 10 days, so I could have had the time to change to many things in 2 weeks but what can I do?

But since it’s my first time to write a guide and to make a huge thing like that, I can say that I am proud of myself and Next time I am sure that I will do better and I hope my work doesn’t go with the wind and that everyone would appreciate my tough effort.       

Friends Forever

            A friend is what we all should be or become. Have you ever imagined your life without even one friend always there with you, supporting you in every bad situation you get into, laughing with you every moment of everyday, making your life more blissful and cheerful, well I don't think so. Having a friend is actually much more important than having money, going to the streets with your best friend is better than travelling to Paris by your own, feeling lonely, wondering why you can’t find a friend?

            Everyone person alive has a friend, only a few people don’t have. A friend should always have some good qualities, a friend should be first of all honest and polite because when you are someone's friend, without noticing you become like him, acting like him and saying what is on his tongue. So it's really very important to know how to choose a friend. A friend also may affect your life and your future, because he might give you good advices and he might give you bad advices. And he should be honest because you can’t build or star a friendship based on lies from its beginning.

            A Friend should also be gentle, friendly, and also he should support you. And also one thing I think should to be in a friend is to be Funny because a friend is supposed to make your life better not a misery. So just know that a friend can last forever and some people we can never forget and they are our true friends.        

The Constitution, Important, right???

            Each country has its own laws and rules and some important fundamental principles, and when these rules or principles are all written down in one collection and put mutually in a one single thing called, by then we call it The Constitution.  This constitution concerns the whole lot that exists among the country, from the lower and minor to the higher and elevated stuff. The Word constitution comes originally from the Latin word constitutio, and earlier it was used to define regulations and orders.And its known that the united states of America has the shortest constitution with 7 articles and the constitution od india in the longest one containing 444 articles and more then 100,000 words.  Actually, a constitution plays a really vital and essential role in our lives because it protects us from all the dangerous around us and it makes a community more organized and it makes it development and expansion better and quicker.   

            So many controversies went on in relation with the first country that wrote a Constitution, I am positive with the intention of what I am going to utter may perhaps sound eccentric and odd to you nevertheless it's by hook or by crook valid information. The initial or the first constitution was written back from 2300 before Jesus Christ was born, and it was in Medina Saudi Arabia by the Prophet Mohamed because there were many records of ancient laws. On the other hand, it was agreed that the first constitution was written in 1710 by the Zaporozhian-Ukrainian Republic, it was called: Agreements and Constitutions of Laws and Freedoms of the Zaporozhian Host and it was eventually the first constitution that suits our contemporary and current understanding to the world and humankind in general.

            Writing and creating the constitution first or having a presidential election primary? Asking this question makes me reflect a lot more regarding what is happening in Egypt these days. Today, 30 January 2012, I've heeded on TV that protesters are planning to create a manifestation composed of millions of Egyptians, for the motive that they want to have presidential elections nowadays not on May 2012. But in my opinion of view, I think we should have a written constitutional before the election since there will be more control and management over the situation in Egypt and if for example if anything goes erroneous on the election, what will we do? There must be laws and rules getting to the bottom of any kind of problems. In addition, if we don’t put pen to paper a constitution, people won't respect any person or the army and it can become a chaos, so there should be a Constitution controlling any situation.         

          

New year's Resolution 2012 :D

            Embarking a new year is like starting a whole new life, opening up the spaces for change and a better life, to see what we have done such as mistakes and attempt to change it and mostly challenging yourself. 2011 was a fine year; things haven’t if truth be told been subsequently well among the whole revolution thing. But 2012 can be an absolute New Year; I have a new year's resolution so should you. All you have to do is park and distinguish and spot what you really like to change in your character and see how to make it real and true, and what's more important than writing a New year's revolution is to truly believe and make it come true, not just write it on a piece of paper and go around saying: " I did my new year's Resolution. YaY." That's not what really counts.  

            For myself, there are things that I saw in myself at the past year that I have been willing to change, first of all the past year I have been really doing my work at the last minute, I really mean it, at the very last minute, even my educational level initiated and started to get lower the last year, and as a result I failed a history government exam in Arabic at the first trimester and I am used to fail in my life and just because I didn’t give a damn about it. So I sat and whispered to myself that I am smart enough to take responsibly of my studies and I decided to offer additional attention to it and since the beginning of C5 I truly made it come true and cared a lot more than I did previously. And to relate this to everyone, any one of you that sees that he is looser and can never be a better person, you are strongly wrong because nothing is impossible and all it took from me was just an extra hard work, but I am not a Nerd as well :D. Also, there is further stuff that I really felt blameworthy of when I thought about it afterward, and one of this stuff was my sister. My sister is 11 years old, for me she is still a baby, anyways, last year I haven’t really been there for her when she needed me, I wasn't her best friend when she needed one and more significantly, I wasn't also her older sister when she needed that. So this year I will care more in relation to my sister and listen to what she has to say and neglect and overlook the part that she is baby and I am a younger girl.

            Maybe these things will seem awkward or not important to you, but small things like that may have a lifetime effect on me. Changes are made for anyone, for any reason and for any time. But NEVER ignore it because there is a day that you will regret things you should've changed a long time ago.                 

Anti-War !!

This Video is a very harmful one that shows us what war did to the whole word and
how can we just help and give a hand to love and live a joyful life.... Together we can.... Together we achieve... and Together we live.

Poetry: A Way to send a message to the World ??!

One hand Can make a Change....

The world is bursting of destruction

And you're until now scripting the introduction

Your heart, your spirit and compassion never lies

And what you see is all made up of lies

The slight girl you saw playing on that guitar

Beyond doubt she never saw a star

She struggled to reach the wonderful spring

However she didn’t found a power on her guitar string

The boy you saw playing and jumping around

Making believe he was blissful

And the next day he was buried underground

Since no hand was helpful

These people never saw the daylight

And they won't until you give them your hand

The boy will finally be bright and see light

And the girl will make her band

So stop writing the introduction that took you ages

And start thinking about the disadvantages

Possibly tomorrow will subsist better

And we will develop a character

                                                                                                                                  By: Donia Atef

GlObaliZatioN: Friend OR Opponent ??!

Globalization is a word that has an exceedingly gigantic meaning, as you can all see, it is draw closer to the word Globe, so just to embark on, it includes and consists the entire world and by reading the subsequent reflection, you will encompass an idea regarding what in actual fact the word Globalization means.

Globalization is the unity or the fact that every country is somehow related to another whether it's economically, politically or even culturally. So they began to exchange products and trade. But the phenomenon of globalization was debated over years, since the ancient societies, so the meaning of globalization varies between nations.  Some nation scientists see that globalization causes the loss of historical trends and cultural norms, while others think that at the end it will lead us all to a utopian world or merely an imaginary and fantasy world. So this is how the controversy concerning the issue of globalization has been going on and until now it's not done.

In fact, globalization has many advantages and disadvantages that will let us be able to get deeper into the theme of globalization. As advantages, the term globalization generates a relation between nations and enlarges it so wars can start to evaporate by time. And secondly, in February 2011 they agreed that globalization increases economic richness in Asia and Africa, which will result to an improvement in health circumstance. And finally, globalization will lower and already did lower the fact that poor countries subsists ever since the economy will by hook or by crook be similar or at least comparable from a country to another.

On the other hand, the disadvantages of globalization are also effecting. Firstly, things can be somehow in disorder, because when globalization will be between lots of countries, they will need a management and a supervision, just to be under control. And also, as it is said in the article that cultures to be shared as well as social norms, so some countries won’t really enjoy their privacy and they won’t have a culture that characterize them from others. And finally it can be the cause of natural destruction.  

Personally, I suppose that the globalization really stands in the way of developing countries, because if globalization gets in a more global way, every country will just be the same and also developed countries will always stay in the first place, and will always be better. And they won’t provide new developing countries the opportunity to even rise a little. It's somehow unfair for some countries; I actually don’t know the right answer but this from my own point of view. And also one more thing, the developed countries may be characterized by their economy but some of the developing countries are marked by their cultural values and remember, one of the disadvantages was the mixture of the cultural values, so by then they will have nothing left to fight for.  

Well, I think it is a threat since it’s a benefit for some countries and a danger for others and we don’t live on planet earth all alone, we have other people we should care about and respect some of their cultures. But otherwise, I believe that the term of globalization should be presented but it has to have a limit and a boundary to not be discriminating other countries.   

             

About Me...

Hi everyone, I am Donia Atef, I am 15 years old, almost sixteen this year in 2012. When I was young, I was in a different school "Mere de dieu", I was 11 when I swap over to oasis International school. For me, Oasis is just right school, at the outset it's an IB school and IB is the unsurpassed learning program in the entire World, because it put together a personality and a first-rate education for me. I can state that I feel affection for everything in life; I care to study since I distinguished that studying can be if truth be told pleasurable if you just become skilled at doing it, just in the vein of everything in life. I love dancing (but I am not truly fine at it) I can just turn the music on and do juvenile things to laugh about myself afterward, but let's say I have fun and as long as I have fun I will carry out to it.  When I was a little girl I never really cared on the subject of music, until three years in the past as soon as I stared find out the splendor of music and that I can really sing (I suppose), I began to be devoted to music as a part of me and my life and nowadays, I can't give it up, it's impossible. In fact, I moreover find irresistible to Art, painting and drawing it's like conveying your feelings in an unusual way, when it's tricky for various people to comprehend you so I take Art classes in school. Talking about sports, I'm not a vast athlete but I can engage in recreation lots of things like Volleyball, Basketball and Tennis because I've did these things when I was young a lot but then I just sort of stopped.

In my school, I wasn't brave at all; I might say that I never passed a 12/20 on a paper, I was sluggish and I sucked at studying, and as well the school wasn't really encouraging, where used to be. But not long, when I came to Oasis and realized how the IB program can be that outstanding, brilliant and how my life is based on my education, I studied actually tough and worked dreadfully well to get to what I am today, but surely at the beginning I had a gang of troubles hanging on me, the first grade I took in grade 5 I memorize was a 0 out of twenty, don’t get the erroneous idea since now I am really different.  

And at this moment within my days, in our day I can be acquainted with the meaning of life and its substance. The immense thing in my life right now is my Personal project, I decided to do a touristic guide called "Around the World in 80 pages" and as you can see enthused by Jule Verne's story title "Around the World in 80 days". Well, it’s a really tough project because it's too long and the researches are enormous, but don’t lose sleep I am on it :D And as a final point I would like to put in the picture to all of to take pleasure in life and do everything you wish for and you love because when you grow up older, some things you will truly be disappointed not making it. ENJOY LIFE.            

Book Report-- A Walk to Remember

         
          "Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful". A walk to remember is a book by Nicholas Sparks, a lovely, touching book that you will never forget. It's a Romance and fiction novel; one might also say it's a tragedy. Nicholas sparks writes about a young man and woman's first and last love, they fall in love and the pain of life and the sorrow will soon appear in the story, one will find himself crying without even noticing, and like Nicholas Sparks said " First you will smile, and then you will cry --- don't say that you haven't been warned."

            Nicholas Sparks writes the Story in Beaufort, a city in North Carolina, and it was in 1958. The story is about 57 years old, telling us his story when he was 17 and how his life changed forever and the love he lost and that he will never ever forget. Landon Carter is seventeen years old high school senior, he is a popular kid that is not really a great example at school and when he meets Jamie Sullivan, The Church Baptiste daughter that everyone hates and he had no one else to ask to the school dance after winning the class president votes he had to go to the dance, well Jamie agreed and later asked him to Participate in the school play, he didn't want to, but he agreed somehow. And later Jamie asked him to walk her home and one time he yelled at her telling her that he don't want to talk to her and he don't want to be her friend and she didn't say anything , but she was hurt badly. So the day of the play came and the surprise is when Jamie enters the Stage looking marvelous, just like an angel and Landon telling that she looks beautiful, one might say he regretted what he said to her. And after the play Landon began spending time with Jamie and loving her facing all the problems and even facing his friend mockery and her father. And the saddest part of the story begins when Jamie tells Landon she has Leukemia and she will die soon. Can one believe this? At the beginning hating someone and when you love that person, she dies? Landon soon turned his life to miser, so Jamie's she began to spend time in the Hospital and before she dies, Landon married her in the same church where he mother married, like she always wanted and then Jamie dies. Their story is unforgettable and as you wipe your tears away, don't wipe this: Love is very powerful, it can change one's life forever and make it better and dreams do come true, even if you have 1 day left in life, dreams will come true, as much as one have faith in god and in himself. In fact, Life can be sometimes painful, but always one can get through it and live it. And another theme of the story is judging someone by their appearance, it's the inter beauty that one should look at not what he wears, his hair or any other thing.

            Personally, till now, this is the most beautiful book read of all, it's just a breath taking story and also one wonder how can this relate to the authors life, cause sure it does and this story had taught me a lot and I recommend every person to read it because it may make one woke up and realize things one didn't know and didn't believe in.   

SOME MOMENTS NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN :D

Vacation is all about having fun, enjoyable times cherishing every moment with the people you can't live without them because they make your life full, meaningful and momentous, hanging out with your best friends, family days, read, amuse yourself, doing things over limit and acting crazy, get into comical and hilarious troubles that each time you remember you laugh till you're out of breath, lots of other things and lastly study.

During my vacation, I didn't travel to another place, I stayed in Cairo. During school times, I can't really do what I want and what I really love, and one of these things is watching movies, I love watching movies and in this vacation, I've watched a bunch of them. I was also reading the book "A Walk to Remember" by Nicholas Sparks, I didn’t finish it yet but it's an incredible book and Nicholas sparks is a marvelous and startling writer.

Hanging out with my family was one of the things I've done a several times in this vacation, we would all go out and have dinner together in some place, talk about our lives and mostly get to know each other better every time. Family is an essential part of all of us and of our lives, you can’t just let it go away, you have to hold on to it and enjoy it and its presence as much as you can. And I didn’t really go out with my best friend because she was out of town for two weeks so all I did was talking with her on facebook and I couldn’t even call her, I really missed her so much.  

And Finally, I studied, at the last five days, I was studying, doing my home works, working on my personnel project, it’s a really hard one, no. not hard but it takes a huge quantity of time to get done, but I like it and truly, I didn’t study for government exams, I just didn’t find the time.  

I Wish you all have a great time, :)