Holy Day in Jerusalem.....After 10 years !!!

At last, I made it(YES!!!)

I went to Jerusalem yesterday, Made an interview in the US consulate after passing through 11 or 12 revolving irony doors of the Israelis', showing permits and ID(s), leaving stuffs, bags, phones, cameras and waiting on long queues.

We went to the interview, they also did more than double check to all of us (me and collegues-Shafeek,Rawan and Osama) then we were called by speakers to sign on the visa papers , then called again to take our hand prints, then again for the interview.

After that the guy who interviewed us said ..."you are qualified for the visa",

then I asked :when can we take it?

he replied "as soon as possible", it seems ASAP means on Monday !! so the flight will be on Wednesday June 2nd Inshallah.

Then we headed to the old city and to Al Aqsa mosque, the Dom of the rock , prayed there and took great photos.

It's one of the unforgettable days in my entire life....

June 6,2008

Today is Friday, the last Friday before Summer course starts.

The summer course statrs for this year the day after tomorrow 8th June.There will be three days 8th,9th,and10th of June as a final opportunity for students to add and drop their courses on Zajel.

As for me I'll be registering for ZERO hours this summer, for a couple of reasons:

1. I'll be gone for a leadership training skills scholarship on the 5th of July , and return back on the August 19th the same years, For about 6 weeks.
2. I am involved in Zajel youth exchange programe at An Najah, and we are planning to hold a summer camp called "Hope For Tomorrow 2008". It's going to start from 14th-30th of June.

International volunteers from different countries all over the world are taking part of this summer camp, about 36 international and 25 local volunteer from An Najah's students.

I hope this will open a wide gate for interaction between cultures and starts a dialouges between nations and civilizations.

“Hope For Tomorrow"

June 3, 2008

Today I was working on Windows movie maker for my first time, then I remembered having wonderful pictures for Friendship.Since we are in our summer vacation -supposed to - I thought of making sth special for friends, I played with these photos and gathered them into this small unprofessional movie, I added Thalg (snow) song for Fairouz, I hope you will enjoy it.

Movie For Dear Friends...

We are preparing for Zajel's Youth Exchange Camp for this year " Hope For Tomorrow2008", which will start inshallah on the 14th of June until 30th of the same month.

It will be held in Al Qasem Palace in a village near Nablus which is called "Beit Wazan".This Palace was nearly distroied by the factor of years, as a result our University of An Najah rebuild it and repaor it to be shiny and lightining again.The international People will arrive next week or on the 14th, which is the first of the other week.They are from many different places, from Canada, Argantine, Vietnam , Irland..and others.

Tomorrow we will be continuing our sessions about the American culture and steriotypes from both sides Palestinians and Americans, Scott is An American Volunteer here in project hope will give the session for the third day and also for the fourth one on Thursday.

In his second one he talked to us and explained the students life in college or University in the United States, it was really interesting, especially for me as I am going to travel in a US scholarship on the 5th July -19th August.The name of this scholarship is Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) ,for Leadership training skills in one of the States Universities.

I applied for it since the 4th of march, and got the acceptance at the End of May, I still have to get the visa from the US consulate, so we need to make the visa interview very soon ,once we have the date there. The scholarship is for 6 students ,Gender pbalance.Me Thuraya , Seba Fidda also An Engineering Freshmen student like me and Shafeeq Jamous from faculty of Law third year, and I guess the other 3 students are from Beirziet University.

We will be invited for predeparture orientation in Ramallah in the coming weeks, so as to know each others before our travel for this summer program.

Time for writing some mails , ....I am supposed to make a 10 minutes presentation about Being a student at An Najah on Saturday June 7th ,For the Ambassadors programe as I am one of the Future's Ambassadors to the outside world...Hopefully.

INTRODUCTION

My name is Thuraya. Iam a palestinian , living in Nablus city-which is called the fire mountain
(Jabal el Nar) .

I am a student at An Najah National University-Nablus.I study Engineering and nearly finished my first year.I haven't majored yet, but I think I am interested in Computer Engineering. It's the eye that count the world as an electronic one,whith unaccountable mystries.

I am trying to gather some of my writing potentials on this blog, since as we all know, sooner or later you wll be missing those enormous great floody feelings that you are experiencing right now at this period of life- at this age- whan you are still sharming and full of deligince and perseverance.

Memories of written feelings in a stage of your life will be the souvenir you have to keep.

writing on the electronic papers....glimpse for memories.

One day some one will be reading this, whoever he is!!I am saying "Thanks For Caring",...send me a wink dear friend.