MotoGP Qatar Grand Prix

One year and a half a go when i used to live Qatar which i lived there about 9 years and i came here to Calgary, Canada in February 8, 2007. just 6 months before coming there was Qatar MotoGp Grand Prix held in Doha-Qatar and it was called Losail Grand Prix. All the international racers from all over the world were coming to participate in this race. Formula 1 and MotoGp and Rally races are all my favorite because i love cars a lot and anything that is related to them. Me and my friends volunteer to work in couple races as security guards and it was still paid job so it is not really volunteering but i get to see the all the races also the race it self. The best thing that i was able to do is to see the races outside the circuit after racing in casual and take pictures with them also it was interesting to see how they clean the moto cycles and repair them, and not forgetting the Best part of it is that i got to take pictures with models of every racer and company...they were reallllllly hot and sexy and i took pictures with all of them???? It was more a fun job than a working one, and i had one friend responsible of the Limousin's so when ever i am bored i go and take around in the limousine, after that i got problem with my supervisor but it still do it anyway. The down side of the Grand Prix was the weather...if u know Qatar u will know that it is a very hot country and because we had to stay outside all the time so i used to sleep in the food trailer because it was so hot and too much humid, the temperature was around 48 to 50 degrees and you can't leave your bottle of water for 5 minutes and not drinking it because it will be hot. anyway it was a good experience and i got to take picture with my favorite racer and his name is Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) who won the Grand Prix.

Numbers

Many people may not know about where do things come from or where they were invented and by whom. One thing i know and i want to talk about is the numbers that all the people or most of them use which are 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 are invented by the Arabs. i think it is a big invention so all people can count their money...wifes????....and children and their animals of course in that time and if it would not be invented by them probably it would be invented by other later on somehow but i guess Arabs needed it more and they were simply smarter and developed and they are just taking a rest now....mmm???????? One thing that really confuses me is that many Arabic middle eastern countries do not use these numbers and use the Indian numbers and i think is bad idea however they are used in my country Algeria and we do not use the Indian numbers. It is important to know the history of this at least for me but what is more important is to know how use them and I'm trying???

Solar Energy

this week i had term paper and i chose to write about fossil energy and how it can be replaced by another source of energy like solar energy and by that i knew too many things. fossil fuel and natural resources that we count on to produce all kind of energy can be finished so we have to think about another way generate power and energy or find another source. most of the natural sources are going to last for 50 to 100 years except United States that has backup sources for 200 to 250 years from now. the best way to replace anykind of energy is by the solar energy because we are sure that ther will be sun everyday no matter what even with cloudy and stormy days but the sun is always going to be there, so we have to act smart and start taking advantage of the sun as long as its free ....who knows maybe later or after many years from now we will have to pay for it?????????? not too many people are familiar with this system or maybe they are just trying to ingnore it now because it is expensive and we still enough oil and gas resources but we have to think about the next and after next generations.

Summer

We are at the end of the semester of EAP3 and I'm very excited to finish and getting to ready to go to University of Calgary and start regular courses. I made good Friends in the EAP and had very nice teachers and helpful and now i am ready to move on and hopefully i still see my friends and teachers. The semester is almost finished and we are during the spring time but the most exciting thing for me that is summer is getting closer and i can not wait. i have never stayed in Calgary for the summer and i heard it is really hot and entertaining, especially the Stampede. Usulaly i go to Algeria every summer and it is always fun and i never get bored of it. i get to meet friends and remember the best times ever also my childhood. One of the best things also is to go weddings and celebrate the Algerian way and why not meeting a cute girls. going to the beach all this things that i like the most but this time im going to stay here in Calgary and i think it going to be great and i am excited to see stampede because i heard about it alot and i like to experience new things.

Hookah

Hookah in Hindi, Shisha in Arabic, Nargile in Tukish, is a water pipe with a Glass based water jar for smoking. It came from originally from India and it gained it popularity around the world especially the Arab world during the ottomans time. The tobacco in the shisha is made of herbal fruits which has fruits flavour and that's what makes it different from smoking because it does not have a bad smell and teh smell do not stay on the person, and it taste good in the same time, even though it is known that it is more harmful than cigarettes. There are some places here in Calgary that have Shisha for example: La Barava, Cafe Med, Narah and Ice Classic and many people go there especially Arab people. The Shisha is very popular in countries like Turkey, Iran Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Paletstine, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunsia, Egypt, Mexico, US, Uk, Greece and it spreading more and more. From begginer smokers even people who do not smoke that much can get them dizy a little bit. In my counrty Algeria there is shisha but it is not that popular like what i have seen in other countries and people do not ask for it as much as in the other countries or maybe because it is just not very popular yet.

Rally Dakar

The Rally Dakar also known as Paris Dakar rally is an annual off-road race for amateurs and professional when the competitors have to race in each stage about 800 to 900 kilometers (500 to 560)per day. First the race was organized in 1978 and the race started from Paris- France and goes until Dakar-Senegal through other countries like Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger,Tunisia. It started to change every year than the original way and go to other countries in Africa. The next Rally Dakar is going to be in Argentina- Chile which is the first time to a different continent. The vehicles and the classes that are allowed to be in the race are: Motorcycles cars and trucks and they all have certain weight to participate in the rally.Mitsubishi pagero/montero in themost succesful in the rally dakar history with last 7 straight years.

Learning English

I have been studying English since i was the sixth grade but i was just becuase i had to. I never wanted to learn English and we used to memorize vocabulary all the time and then we were tested on them just like it is going to help to speak better. It was the same untill 12 grade when i graduated from high school and i can tell that English level that i was studying did not change since the sixth grade, i used to go to exams without studying and still get the highest mark. After high school i attended a canadian college called '' The college of north atlantic'' then things started to change and i realized the difference but it is nothing comparing when i came here to calgary, i did not feel comfertable with my English at all. Maybe because everybody here speaks English and they are realy good at it also the environment when everything around you is in English and i think this is the difference between here and wher i used to live. My English improved but i still have many things to learn and i hope by the end of EAP3 i would improve my English more.