Turning Point

     I remember the death of my mother in 2000 and it seems like it was yesterday. That year was so difficult since it began because my mother became sick and her sickness started from January first at sundown the weather was cold, my mother’s birth day was in this day me and my siblings were so excited to make a big surprised party for her and during our preparation her sickness symptoms started to appear. 

A call to Adventure

Marwa Abdullah

1/23/11

“Adventure” Assignment

Marwa 1

  Mall of America Adventure                                     

When I came to America five years ago, one of the places that fascinated me the most was Mall of America. We have many malls back home, but we have nothing like the Mall of America, which is one of the biggest Malls in the world. When I visited the mall, I thought it was the most wonderful place that I have ever seen. My husband told me about the underwater aquarium that is located in the basement of the mall. Since that time, I have always wanted to see it. I never had the chance, because I am always busy with school, the children, or something. I did not have the time to discover it! About a week ago, we had a school break and my husband had some time off from his work, so we thought to do something different. I came up with the idea of going to the MOA Underwater Adventure. He liked the idea, but since he saw it before, he was not as excited as I was. We argued if the children are going to enjoy it! After that, we agreed to go since there wasn’t anything else to do in this cold freezing weather.

When the adventure has started, we sew fishes of all kinds including turtles and many other things sea creatures from the real underwater life. The most amazing thing was the sharks. I have never imagined seeing a shark swimming this close and felt almost next to me. Of course, we were separated by a thick glass. My children really enjoyed it a lot. My daughter was very excited for seeing Nemo, a cartoon character, in real life. We have also enjoyed some ice cream, and the children played with some of the mall rides and games.

A lot of people may think that Mall of America is only a mall to shop, I disagree. This experience at the mall aquarium proved it to me. It’s actually a nice place to see different things and spend some good time while taking shelter from the cold weather during winter in Minnesota.

FIRST BLOG JOURNAL

My earliest writing memory:

              In the begging when I first start writing I thought it is going to be Avery hard work, but when I started to think about the topics I said to myself that most of them are from my real life. Whenever I pick my work book to writ I feel so happy because the topic makes me remembered my past my present and even to think about my future. Witting is not an easy thing, but if the person think about it from the good way it is very enjoyable things for me. I believe that everyone has his or her own favorite things to do. Such as, some people like to read and some like to write. Witting was one of my favorite thing to do since I was a little girl. I used to have my own daily book that I wrote whatever actions happened to me. I remembered the worst action that happened and I could not write a lot about that action was when my mother died. Finally, I want to say that this writing experience give me the opportunity to talk about some of my life planes.

My First School:

             In Jun, 6, 2006, I came to the USA. When I arrived to the U.S I did not speak English well. But I know some words and understand a little. In my country Sudan the English is scanned language so all schools study it. In the U.S.A I have to speak English well because the first language. So I registered in the public school. I remembered in my first day I walk up early and I woke my baby up too. That day was really exciting I was really happy in this program. When we were there we saw a lot of students from a different country. I remembered  when the teacher come ,she introduced my me to the students because I was so nerves and I can to say anything I was really like the first day in the school

Typical Day:

         Writing is my every day of my life. For example, most of the time I sent email to my family  back home Sudan  to make sure everything is ok, I write down my home work, and I take notes for my daily planes.

Successful Writing:

        My successful writing that I wrote was in my class last semester.  I wrote about how many victims from Propaganda Techniques every day. I did my best until I finish from it and I used many different examples for that paper. Finally, I got good grad.