Remember the story of the street we live in. How it’s constantly being repaired, and that the water is cut and telephone lines are affected because of this. Well ever since then (ever since we lived there since 8 months) this poor street is not yet repaired. Enough is enough! Not only are we, the people living there suffering from the annoying reparations, but also water is wasted in the streets every now and then, the place has become all dusty, which is causing pollution to the poor people living right there. Thank God it’s just a way to our place and not where we actually live. Add to this the huge financial loss of the government. They spend a fortune on repairing this thing and then after a couple of days one can see the repairing trucks again breaking the infrastructure and digging down the ground.
I’m really FED UP! Therefore I’ve made up my mind to write a petition, complaining about the status of the street and requesting serious and immediate interference in repairing it once and for all. It’s ready to be handed out to the people in charge. My only problem is: I DON’T KNOW WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE IN CHARGE!!!

Few minutes ago I have known that my brother and sister have passed and got excellent results. My brother now goes for his summer course, as for my sister she’ll be preparing for her graduation party which will be taking place soon 🙂 I’m so proud they got these high grades 🙂 CONGRATULATIONS brother and sister, and good luck 🙂

I don’t know if it happens to you too, but it happens to me in most of the situations I go through in my life.
It’s when you’re asked a certain embarrassing question or when you’re asked your opinion in a sticky situation, or when you have to make a very serious comment, or simply when you’re writing the answer to a tricky question in the exam, you do something, and when you’re out of the room, or when the situation is to an end, you find yourself hitting your head against the wall, shouting: “GOD!! WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT” or “WHY DIDN’T I SAY THAT INSTEAD!”. So many times, I comment in a certain way, or I write down something, but when the situation is over, I find myself finding better options for my comments or answers, SPECIALLY when I have this feeling that I said something really great, to find out few minutes later that I said the worst thing ever, and have fallen for the trick, which the other part of the conversation has planned for. AAAH! I get so angry when I realize I could’ve said better things, or I could’ve dealt with a situation in a better way. And sometimes instead of feeling angry I can’t stop laughing, when I know what I said wont give a bad impression about me, nor would it result is bad consequences, so I think: ooops, that must have sounded really stupid!
I guess the reason behind this regret is the time factor. Sometimes we rush into conclusions, or we simply don’t give ourselves enough time to think the issue through because of being emotionally driven, or maybe because the situation itself is so urgent that we have no time to think enough.
And when we’re in a hurry, or when we let our feelings (anger, anxiety, fear, embarrassment, or love) be in charge, then we end up feeling not much satisfied of our ways in handling situations, or we feel bad about the words we’ve said concerning certain issues. Therefore, and no matter how hard it might be, one should take enough time to think the answer through first, if for any reason it was impossible to take time thinking, then at least try to control your feelings specially anger and fear.
And well, do what I do, no matter how embarrassed or angry I’d feel after saying something, I let it go so fast by saying one of these magical sentences: “I’m only human”, or “worse things could’ve happened”, or “I’m still alive”, or “I’ll make it up somehow” 🙂 Making mistakes is part of our adventurous life, don’t be ashamed of that, but do your best to avoid as much mistakes as you can, at least by not repeating the same mistake twice. And if you’re making no mistakes at all, then it’s either you’re an out of this world person, lucky you, and stay like that 🙂 OR you can be some kind of a freak believing you’re right and all are wrong, lol, in that case, take more time and try to look at things from different angles 🙂
Good luck to all and have a wonderful weekend 🙂 IT IS FRIDAAAAAAAAAAAY 😀

Yesterday I got my result for my whole French course. The grade of all tests (written and oral) all through the semester where calculated to get a result out of 20. Now the higher grade was 15, second came a 14, and third was 13.75 which belonged to ME. YES!! I came third, didn’t actually expect it to be that good, but well, I’m so happy for the result.
So no more French lessons. It’s such a weird feeling, I consider it such a relief, yet I already miss the class, the people, and my busy life style when I had French. Ah, this is human nature I guess, never satisfied. But I think this way is better, I need some time for myself and for home. So starting from today I’m going to re-organize my life according to my new schedule 🙂 If any of you is waiting for the result of a certain test then I hope you all pass and get high grades 🙂

Is the name of the younger boy of my sister. Today he becomes one year old. And although I haven’t seen much of this boy, but the few moments I spent with him were more than enough to make me feel so close and attached to him. He’s so good looking, so naughty and so so loveable, just like his brother Hammoude 🙂 By now he should be on his way to make his first steps, and to pronounce his first few letters, GOD I DIDN’T WANT TO MISS THAT!!!
A sweet coincidence is that Omar and his brother were born both on the 14th, and on Saturday. Only Omar was born in June, when Mohamad was born in April 🙂
Anyway, I wont let his birthday pass just like that, I will CELEBRATE 🙂 yes, I will, I’m going to play the video my sis sent me of him, his brother and our whole family… thank you sis, this tape is keeping me alive.
And well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMMOURA, may God bless you with health, happiness and a long life 🙂

I still can’t believe it. Last week and till yesterday, it was sunny and hot. People already went swimming, everyone had this “summer spirit” until this morning! Yes, today it started raining, the weather is cold and the sun has decided to hide. And now I knew weather will continue to be that cool until Friday!
Last year June was hot and there were no days in which it became that cold. Weird!
Well, no problem with me, although I’ve got into my sunny mood 😉 Anyway, such a weather is beautiful for staying home and watching TV.

My oral test was at 6, I did all my best to be there on time, and I was there at 5:50 🙂 I found my colleagues there talking about possibilities of the questions to be posed in the oral exam, then discussing what they’re planning to do in the holidays and stuff like that. The teacher called us to begin, and we had to wait along with other students of other levels. Imagine only 100 out of at least 300 students passed the written test. We waited all in the same room. There were 4 rooms, 2 teachers in each.2 students, one from the class of each teacher. Outside, where the 100 were waiting together. I hated the chaos. All students were talking so loudly, around 10 smoking in the small room, others talking on the mobile… etc, without respecting the teachers inside, nor the calm environment the students inside need. The second thing was the lack of order from the side of the teachers, they didn’t call out for names to come in, instead, they relied on the student’s fighting skills to be able to reach the door before others so that when the one inside gets out, the other would immediately force him/herself inside. If they had a list with names ordered according to alphabets then there wont be pushing or fighting on who’s turn is it. Anyway, I was so tired, didn’t prepare anything, unlike my other friends 🙁 and I was like: ok, I know what I know, whether I wait or not, my performance in the exam will still be the same, so let me get over it as soon as I can. After 7 students, each staying around 20-30 minutes, I found myself inside the room. It turned out, I had to choose a peace of paper with around 5 lines explaining the subject to discuss. There were more than 100 pieces, and I had only 2 minutes to make a choice. Every time I pick one I return it immediately, either because it’s way too silly and wont give a good impression, or because I didn’t understand what the hell they’re talking about, or because I just didn’t think I’d be able to say something about the subject suggested. Anyway time was up, and I randomly picked a paper, which turned out to be about WAR!! I had 5-7 minutes to put something together and prepare for what I’d say. Meanwhile another student (who’s been through what I’ve been through) would be discussing his choice of the topic with the teachers in the same room. I must say it was the worst 7 minutes at all. I read the paper over and over again. The paper said, I had to show whether I’m with or against war, why’s that? And what are other solutions in case I was against war. I squeezed my brain to form a complete sentence, but I had nothing other than: “je suis contre la guerre” (I’m against war). Now why, and what other options there are to solve people’s problems, I had the ideas, but the words I’d say…NO DAMN IDEA!! So I lost hope in preparing for something to say and started praying to God! Anyway, it was my turn, my face was tomato-red, and all I did was smile. They were like: ok begin. I started by representing myself, and at that moment I don’t know what the hell has happened, I talked and talked and talked, my teacher was so proud yet SHOCKED, while the other teacher looked as if she was hypnotized, she was staring at me, with a big smile on her face. I don’t know how that happened, but I found myself talking with no problems (not without grammar mistakes :D) discussing the type of work I do, what I think of French, my problem in having no time to study at home, and then started talking about war, my opinion of it, my feelings towards it, the many disadvantages of it, listing the effects of war on economy, education, social and professional life, as well as the creativity and productivity of people, putting expressions I’ve never used here, adding some definitions I never expected to know there, discussing the failure of war in Palestine and Iraq, mentioning other ways to solve problems, and thanking my teacher for being patient with us, all this came out of my mouth while I had the most shocked face ever, because I really didn’t know how I managed! but I did it, all in 10 minutes, they did not ask a SINGLE question, they were both smiling and the hypnotized teacher was like: I don’t know, your words had me picturing war and feeling its destruction, but still your way of expressing yourself was so confident and simple that I really enjoyed your discussion! Thank you and come and get your result on Monday.
I came out and no one believed I was done in that short time! I gave them some helping tips 😉 no that isn’t cheating 😛 and then got a cab home.
Hmmm, it felt great to have many things to say without the trouble of looking for words 🙂 I don’t care about how good my result will be, what I did yesterday was enough for me to feel pleased with my French knowledge at this level 🙂

Yesterday was my sister’s wedding anniversary. It’s already been 5 years 🙂 Yes, and they have now two wonderful little boys. I miss them all.
Just like today, 5 years ago, my sister and her husband were still on their way to Spain for their honeymoon. They left some hours after their wedding, had to stop at Paris, got their stuff lost, therefore they’ve missed their flight to Paris, which resulted in them reaching Paris late, finding out that the travel agency believed they’ve changed their plans and so lost hope in having them that day. They tried to contact the agency only to know that they’ve lost the papers on which they have the contacts and the address, so they called us instead and then they went on for their honeymoon which from what they’ve told us turned out to be amazing.
I remember how 5 years ago, my brother came all the way from UAE (or was it Canada? I got mixed up, no he was coming from UAE and leaving to Canada) anyway he came all the way to attend the wedding, he got off the plane to home, got changed for the wedding so fast and there he was among the rest of us dancing and singing for our beautiful sister and her husband. Next day he had to leave few hours after the fresh married couple left for their honeymoon.
Ah, only now I understand how hard it should’ve been for our parents back then to realize the day has come when each one of us will go on to live their own life in their own new home…
Anyway, the wedding was terrific, everyone was so happy for them, and talking specifically about my sis, we were over the clouds to watch her in her beautiful white dress dancing, cutting the cake, taking pics with her friends and us, she was so damn beautiful, simply like a queen in a fairy tail… no one new back then that she’ll be in Canada 5 years later!! And I never thought that I’d be in Tunisia writing this about her instead of recalling those sweet memories with her face to face, reminding her of the tiny details of that day and how great it felt to watch her in her wedding day shining like a star.
After my sis, her husband and my bro left, the house felt so empty, so calm and so still. We were all dead tired after the wedding, and we just talked about how beautiful and warm the wedding was and how we wished they’d have a great honeymoon and how we were worried about our brother as he left.
We thought: now, a new member was added to our family, yet at the same time two most loved members have somehow left us.
Thinking of it, thinking of all those tiny little details about our family, I can’t help but feel like being with them right now at this very moment to tell them how much I love them, how much I miss them and how great it feels to belong to them. And remembering all this, along with the hard times and the difficulties that we’ve been through, are going through, and might go through in future, I know very well that nothing will tear us apart no matter what, and that whatever bad circumstances we might ever be put in, we’ll be nothing but the great special family that will stand by the one in need, support each member that belongs to it and be there for every single member in every single way.
A great family grows with its added members and becomes stronger with every problem it faces and every experience it goes through… I love them all, and I’m proud of being a part of them.

I went after work as fast as I could to the nearest bus stop, and fortunately the bus arrived just on time, and more than that, a woman gave me the place of her son 🙂 wish all would do like her.
Anyway, these were all really good signs, BUT then I reached the institute, found no one from my class (most probably they saw the results earlier) and then started searching for my name. I found 10 lists stuck on the wall, each had the name of the teacher and the level of the course and the number of the classroom. I found our classroom and our teacher as well as our level, BUT I DID NOT FIND MY NAME ON THE LIST :(((((( and when the name is not on the list it means the person did not pass the test. But something inside me told me I passed, so I looked closer on the list (which had VERY SMALL WRITING on it) and I found out that it wasn’t our class because there is this little TINY note in the corner that shows the class time, which wasn’t ours. Anyway, while looking for the result I heard someone calling my name, I turned around and it was a colleague in my class 🙂 He was upstairs looking for our list as he couldn’t find it and it turns out it has fallen on the ground (must be some really angry fellow) and they had to replace it, and hang it some other place, we went there, and there was my name shining like a star, lol 😛 Yep, I DID IT!!! I Passed the final 🙂 I couldn’t know the marks though, but who cares, I passed, yippieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. But well some other colleagues didn’t make it and I was sad for them 🙁 I wish them a better luck next year.
Now passing the test means I will be able to go for the oral exam on Thursday, lol, that will be one hell of a disaster. I understand a lot better than before, and I write so much better than before, and I have a lot of vocabulary entered in my brain 😛 but for a whole conversation with many questions from 3 professors, that would be a bit hard.
Hope I’ll make it and pass the oral exam as well 🙂