The Bride of the Red Sea

Hello everyone, this is my first time trying to post some of my writing in English using a blog. I'm very excited to have this new experience, but please don't think that I'm a perfect writer. However, I'll do my best using my own style.

Every time when I decide to start writing my diaries I give up, because I'm always thinking about stupid things such as notes and I said: ' Should I start to write about present or the past first? what should I do if the notes do not have enough paper? what if I write something wrong and I have to remove the paper? what will happen if I write some of my hidden secrets and one of my family found my diaries and read them!' ...etc

Then I just forget about writing and keep all of my special events in my mind. However, when I see this quotations '' Keep a diary and someday it'll keep you'' and '' Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have the time'' I think that I have to start writing again >> ooh NO NOT AGAIN! (T_T)

Few days ago, I was thinking about - what our tutor (Sam) told us - my first post. actually I found it very difficult to decide how can I start, for me always the most difficult step is the beginning, so I thought it's better to start with something easy that I know. Therefor, I'll write about my hometown Jeddah.

'The Bride of the Red Sea' is a nickname of my hometown Jeddah which located on the coast of the Red Sea. It's the second largest city in Kingdom Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. I was born and I have lived there. It's a lovely city, but to be honest I don't like its hot and sunny weather in the summer. However, in the winter its nearly cool weather, but unfortunately without rain as people in Jeddah always said '' rains come only once a year '' (>_<)
The area of Jeddah City has a distinctive regional speech pattern called the Hejazi dialect, alternatively known as Meccan or Makkawi.

Landmarks

'The Red Sea Mermaid ' have many significant landmarks such as old buildings, old markets, malls and shopping centers, resorts, international restaurants, Amusement parks, and King Fahd's Fountain (which is the tallest water fountain in the world).

According to Wikipedia, the population of Jeddah city currently stands at over 3.4 million. 

old buildings and mosque in Jeddah

A view of a mall from the 3rd floor

The same mall

Amusement park 

Hotels in front the Red Sea

King Fahd's Fountain

''The fountain jets water 312 meters (1,024 ft) above the Red Sea. It was donated to the city of Jeddah by King Fahd, hence its name. The fountain is visible throughout the entire vicinity of Jeddah. The water it ejects can reach a speed of 375 kilometres (233 mi) per hour with a weight exceeding 18 tons.'' ( Wikipedia 2010 ).

One of the old Five gates of Jeddah

view of the Corniche

(KAU)


If I write about Jeddah of course I'll mention one of 15 Universities and Colleges  which is  King Abdulaziz University  (KAU) where we are - I mean the students of this course - studying at, which divided to two main campus: male campus and female campus. There are around 2,000 teachers and more than 37,000 students.


KUS's Faculties contain:

• Faculty of Engineering
• Medicine
• College of Applied Medical Sciences
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• Faculty of Dentistry
• Economics and Administration
• Home Economics
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Earth Sciences
• Faculty of Marine Sciences
• Faculty of Meteorology and Environment
• Environmental Design
• Faculty of Arts and Humanities ( which has The English Language Institute ).
• Faculty of Education (Teachers College earlier)
• Community College
• College of Computing and Information Technology Rabigh.

  

Faculty of Arts and Humanities


Our faculty is the second biggest faculty in the KAU that contains nine departments:


Arabic Language & Literature. 
European Languages & Literature >> which we are studying at (^_~).
English Language Centre.
Geography.
History.
Library & Information Science.
Sociology.
Psychology.
Mass Communication.
Islamic Studies.

KAU-Logo

Now here are some photos I took myself last year >> of course from female campus

Note: In the female campus we are not allowed to take photos because we wear normal clothes without Abaya, so I took this photos the day of the final exams when most of the students went home. *evil eye* 

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

That's all for now, I know that's not enough but I hope this writing gives you some little idea about my hometown. It's not as you saw or knew from the media. Next time hopefully it will be more interesting (^_^)