Friday, April 24, 2009

HSBC FEA Program


Program:
AMIDEAST is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for HSBC’s Financial and Entrepreneurship Awareness Program, a unique two-week educational opportunity in July 2009, for up to 30 first year college women from the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon and Jordan. In this program students will get an in-depth experience in the worlds of entrepreneurship, banking and financial services, while, developing significant leadership skills that will serve them throughout their careers. The program is funded by HSBC and is administered by AMIDEAST. It will be conducted primarily at the all-women’s Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA, with visits to Washington, D.C. and HSBC Headquarters in Chicago, IL.


Criteria:
  • In-country nationals of Kuwait
  • Have very good English (minimum: ITP score of 500 or equivalent IELTS/iBT/TOEIC) Note: If you have not taken your local/international TOEFL test, please contact us to register for the upcoming testing session, which will take place on Sunday, the 26th of April 2009!
  • Be a female first-year college student
  • Have high academic achievement
  • Be available to travel to the U.S. for two weeks from July 4th to July 21st, 2009
  • Be a goal-oriented woman who demonstrates an interest in learning and self-improvement

Deadline: Thursday, April 30, 2009.

Bloggers Meeting :)


It was really nice meeting you girls

(Shaymaa, Bloggylife, Rania and Nosayba)

I had so much fun today :)

Saturday, April 4, 2009

My Kindle ... So Far


  • Kindle is perfect for reading novels.
  • In order to read pdf files on my kindle, I need to use a software to convert them to the kindle format, the output is not the same as the original pdf file, its not good specially when there are pictures.
  • Text to speech is not that great, its just like any text to speech software on the net, audio books are different. (Why are they suing amazon?!)
  • Battery life is great. with a single charge it can stay up for a week.
  • Storage is around 1.4 GB. enough for kindle books but not enough for my MP3s.
  • Reading technical books on my kindle is hard, specially because I tend to go faster thru technical books and I only read specific pages/articles. Kindle is slow for that.
  • I had to travel two times this month and I enjoyed having my kindle with me. It's light! and I had so many choices on it.
  • I can now buy any magazine from amazon, the format is different on the kindle, you only get a list of articles from the magazine. (tried newsweek)
  • Writing notes on the kindle is hard, the keyboard is hard to use and kindle is slow.

Lebanon (3) - Final


The way to Jeita


You can view Tripoli city from this location