Culture shock

          Choose a country , get a visa , book a ticket and prepare luggage are not only what the passenger need.  However, traveler must prepare himself for the culture shock. Definition of culture shock is what a person feel as a result of visit or immigrate to a new culture or live in  deferent environment. Also culture shock has four stages: honeymoon , rejection, acceptance and adaption and reentry shock , respectfully.   
     
     First stage starting from arrival and continues for several weeks. This stage includes Feeling the differences , live in new way and learn new things about the culture . Passenger usually feels happy and enthusiastic .Unfortunately, this period ends fast .
     
     After the honeymoon period, the rejection stage begin. When Person feels not belonging to the new country. Especially in country has different language and manners than his homeland. Due to adjusting to a new culture , person feels lonely ,homesick and want to go back to his old live .
     Then acceptance and adaption a new culture .  Usually it take time varies from person to another to rich this stage . one start to be part of the new culture , get used to the  atmosphere and behave like local people.besides feels at home and comfortable, until he or she go back to his country . 
     
      Finally reentry shock. This stage comes after spending a long time in another culture then going back to one's own culture . This stage might by  difficult because it is unexpected. When someone comes back from long trip s\he forget that he adopt another culture and changed  from what s\he was in the past . People treat one the same and some relationships have changed. Not everyone have the same reentry shock because not everyone has had the same experience. As well as other stages it disappear after a while .
       knowledge is power and learn how to deal with each stage ,can prepare the person to go through them easily. Although these stages are a part of traveling and living abord experience.

Gazelle meat

     

     I never thought that I would eat a gazelle meat someday.One day We were in Brazilian restaurant called Terrazzo , in Riydh,S.A .
     this restaurant specializes in barbecue food .
Even the dessert was barbecue pineapple. I went there with my husband and it was really nice . Until the waiter came  and recommended the gazelle meat . I was shocked because I don't like to try something like that , even though i don't like meet at all.
    My husband insisted , and he keep saying just once in your live . Next the waiter came with the Gazelle meet it was cooked on a barbecue, And servied with tree kinds of souce .
 It was my first time eaten Gazelle meat and i think that will be the last one. It wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that good ether .

Failed attempt

  


   That happened to me when I was in Barcelona.One day after we came back from  Sagrada Familia_ one of the biggest church in Europe, we went to Catalonia square. We sat at one of the chairs there, and i put my bag next to me.
     I guess it was 10 p.m and we were watching some teens who were singing and dancing there. Suddenly a thief came and tried to steal my purse. Fortunately i didn't remove my  purse handle from my shoulder. Next i shoot at him "this is my purse" .
     After that he drip my purse and run away . My husband tried to follow him but he run among grop of people, and he couldn't find him. Think God because I didn't want my husband to fight with a criminal. They could carry a knife or gun. in Other words they are dangerous.
     

2000 Euros just for one day fine

      After what happend to us in Spain, we deiced to not rent a car ever in Europe again. Me and my husband went there for our honeymoon  last September for two weeks, and we got payed the largest fine in our live.Even though we had amazing time there.
      First we went to Barcelona, we didn't need a car because of the public transport.  It was such a lovely time. We visited tourist sites, ate paella _which is a Spain's traditional food, drank juices at la rambla street. We had spent a week there before going to south Spain villages.    
      As soon as we arrived to the south , we rent a car. In the south they have a small villages next each other. They didn't have buses or train betuen them, that why we had that car. Each village have a landmark we wanted to see. So we stayed in hotel and every day we drove to a one of the landmarks to see it. until we visited Alambra _one of the south villages.
     Alambra was two hours driving from our hotel. we had to went throw many villages before we got there. All the problem started from there. when we took the high way we didn't see the speed limit sign any way, so we thought  the highway wasn't observer. By taking back to the hotel, my husband took another high way. however the GPS wasn't updated with this new highway. Then we realized that we got lost. Finally after three hours we got to our hotel, but this nightmare didn't finish yet.
       Later my husband received an email from the car rental, mentioned that they took a 2000 Euros  from his visa, to pay his ticket. We were exceeding the speed limit, opposite a oneway sign, and  more.
      Now, whenever you want to drive a car out of your country, you should be familiar with the Traffic Systems  there. Don't make the same mistake.           

Saudi's coffee traditions

       
         
     This photo for the Saudi tradition coffee . In Saudi Arabia we have some traditions related to the coffee, starting from how to cook it ending how to drink it.
      When the gust arrived to the host's home ,the host must start with coffee and some dates before the dinner or lunch .
     The host should start serve the coffe to the oldest first and then the rest of the guest , after that the host drinks his one .
      When the guest finished their cup they passed their cups to the host to give them more, and when they don't want any more they should shake their cup, that mean they enough .

Changes in diet

     



















           Do you know that Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years? and In 2010, more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese, according to the CDC (Centers for disease control and prevention).This proves change of our diet,and how our new life style effect it.

     Regarding the required speed this day people dont have time to cook their meals three times a day_ including mothers, which make them choose fastfood or canned food _that containa lot of fats and preservative – as an alternative, that leads to increase in the weight  accompanied by many diseases such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure .  
       
     Economics play a big role in changing dietary habits,Traders these days care about money more than anything els because of that they try to catch children and teens attention using ads,McDonald’s and Burger King in their ads show just the healthy food for children and teens, in fact they serve french fries and soft drink with kid's meal at least 55% of the time.  
       Technology, I pad ,I pod, I phone , laptop ,....etc, all these gadgets influence our diet in some way, people stay all day in fornt their screens eat a lot of snacks such as popcorn, cookies, chips and  Chocolate, and that make them eat two reglar meals per day instead of three.
       What we must know our new  dietary habits shorten our life expectancy and make us vulnerable to diseases,  we should be careful about what and how we eat our food to save our live and enjoy it ,Especially for children . 
       

Healthy living

                             
                                              
 Your health is your every thing, that's why you have to live in healthy way to enjoy your live, there are a lot of things you want to do yet .
   people think its hard to live in healthy way but they are wrong , Although they would try to get you down with that .
     Running 20 minutes  3 times a week ,cooking lightly, eating a half of your regular meal ,drinking more water , can save your live. According to the research ,  diabetes, heart attack , vascular disease and many other disease might cost you your live as a result of overweight .

                                             

    

     On other way being in good shape makes your live easier , you can move smoothly, get more confidence , find a good jab .

      Don't wast more time and start living healthy ...

     

                                   

     

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