New Pearl Museum in RAK. Summary 1

There are many legends about pearl and they are beautiful and precious things. Also, the pearl has had effect on the local culture and economy. There is a new pearl museum in RAK and its operation manager is Al Suwaidi. He likes this kind of treasure and he gives a tour of the museum. RAK is a good place which has a lot of the pearl trading history documents. He has a document which proves that Julfar which is known as RAK was the center of this industry and this is the reason to open this museum, as he said.

With the advent of cultured pearls the people decreased using the natural pearl. The museum is located on Al Qawassim Corniche. It belongs to RAK Pearls Holding company. There are leaders in it to show the visitors the parts of the museum. On the first floor they do a historical journey and there is information about how the divers used the oil on their bodies because they face a lot of the dangers in the sea. On the second floor there is information about the difference between natural and cultured pearls and details about the diving season.

First reflective statement

Our course is about academic reading and writing and the period of this course is 4 times in a week; every class takes one hour. I am going to improve my skills in reading and there are some useful exercises on the vocabulary. Also I am going to learn in this course how to write an assay and some projects; from these quizzes I will be better than before in reading and writing.

In the past, I learned the basic things in the English language and I took some exercises in speaking, reading, listening and writing. If anybody tells me give yourself a score out of ten before this course I can tell him or her five. My expectation in this course is to increase the level of reading and understanding of the sentences very well and the level of writing and coordinating the sentences.

  My teacher’s name is Hedley and he is from England and he was born in Newcastle. He works in the Higher College of Technology in Abu Dhabi for the male branch as a teacher. He teaches us how we can use the blogger website and he linked us together to increase the communication between us.

 

I hope in this course to increase my skills in English language and change my weakness into strengths.

The Hajj

Muslims from all over the world go to Mecca in KSA to make the Hajj. This is one of the five roles in Islamic life. It begins on the eighth day of Dul-Hijjah. It comes from the Islamic calendar and the period of the Hajj is six days. During the Hajj Muslims dress in white robes called the Ihram. There is a mosque which is special to Muslims and inside it there is the Ka’aba. They have to face the Ka’aba when they pray five times a day. The pilgrims must do like Mohammed did for the steps of the Hajj. The Hajj is the biggest event which Saudi Arabia’s authorities organize. All pilgrims must be vaccinated against some viruses. Before entering Mecca pilgrims must clean themselves. Then they have to walk around the Ka’aba 7^th times. After that they have to walk between Safa and Marwa 7^th times. On the first day they stay in Mina and the next morning they travel to Arafat where Mohammed did his last sermon. Then that same night they camp in Muzdalifah.  After that they have to come back to Mina. Pilgrims throw 7^th pebbles at each of the three statues at the Jamraat. Muslims believe that Satan tempted Abraham. Then the pilgrims return to Mecca to preform Tawaf and Safa and Marwa. Then they return to Mina for three days to pray. Finally, they make the farewell Tawaf.