Moroccan Arabic

Helloooo!!! it has been a while im missing you guys so mucho!! lol 

a quick update, my spring semester is going great so far! im on top of all my work everything is going well so far, hopefully it stays that way for the rest of the semester. 

anyhow I wanted to speak to you guys about the language in Morocco. 

just like other Arab countries, morocco speaks Arabic! however, Moroccan Arabic is not the same as Egyptian or Omani or Saudi or Lebanese Arabic. each country has its own words, slang and the accents. however, it seems like Moroccan Arabic is the hardest of them all, Moroccans can understand any form of Arabic when spoken, however most other countries cant understand us when were speaking. 

Moroccan Arabic consists of many languages in one, mostly Arabic (of course) but it also has french, Spanish, Berber and words from alot of other languages, this is mainly the reason why. 

each city has its own accent as well, you can pretty much tell the exact city a person is from by their choice of words and the way they say them. for example, someone who is from Marrakesh has a VERY noticeable "marakshy" accent, same goes for people from Casablanca and tangier and so on! many Moroccans also speak more than one language (aside from all the different kinds Arabic) most of time the second language is french, since french is the ultimate second language for morocco. there also exist Berber language, the Berbers are the original Moroccans before the Arabs came. and even with in the Berber language there are different kinds, like tamazight tashelheet and so on.

I found a video on youtube with different Moroccan dialects, hehe hope you enjoy :D

Travel: Oman!

 Hello!

I decided to start posting about places I have been to, problem is MOST of my photos (especially the really good ones) I have on my older laptop, which just got formatted and everything is gone :'(

My only hope is my aunt's computer which is in Dubai lol and my cousin's laptop who is in canada. he has some of the photos from my camera stored on his laptop, so I just really hope that they will still be there when I go visit them!

anyhow, these are some of the photos still left, thanks to facebook lol. hopefully If I get my really good ones I will post another one.

This post is from our trip in Oman, the country Oman not the city Aman in jordan!

Oman is right off UAE, we drove a good two hours from UAE to finally crossing the border in Oman. all the photos here taken by moi, except for the one taken of me (cuz how can I take a pic of my self while my hands are both occupied lol)

enjoyyy :D

 this is before I started wearing hijab (january, 2010), So I had to crop :P

it was SO hard to take a clear photo of the dolphins since they are SO FAST! but uh, it takes a special photographer like meee :P lol

 My cousins swimming with fishies near an Island

 On our way back

 haha I had to do it :P

 The dolphin caller man

This is me, we were at the border of Oman entering UAE. really board. so we decided to get out the car and take some WONDERFUL PHOTOS (most of which I lost) but here is a surviving one lol. this was taking by my cousin.

 So as you can see, I was really really into photography and I still am but I hardly ever find time or I just get too lazy cuz it actually takes a lot of time and effort :D but I cant wait to start photographing up again just for you guys eh? 

overall, OMAN was such a wonderful experience, and I have so many other good picx like some too good ones that I was saving up to put on my photography page, but got too lazy to post them and now theyre gone :'( just pray my cousin still has them :)

XOXO-SL

first week of spring semester

Hello lovelies, im soosos sorry for abandoning you :( 

my internet problem should sort out by saturday (as they say) 

this week was our first week of the spring semester! I started everything pretty well, im staying REALLY organized and trying to plan out everything in details that way I make the most with my time. 

 Ive been using iCal, which is beyond wonderful...this is what my schedule looks like for this week 

All my professors are asian, which I love! the Asian/chinese professor are the best, besides the accent after going beyond the accent problem everything else is GREAT. and most importantly, they care.

 my engineering professor however, is very very intimidating! he is a very smart Indian man. his accent isnt very thick, but someone told me his job there was to try to get those with not much "toughness" in them to quite engineering now before its too late! 

oh noo, Ive been through a good four years of engineering in high school with some crazyyyy teachers. we started out 20 people, 10 boys and 10 girls we ended with 8  engineering graduates (one barely graduating) and only 2 went on to further their education in engineering (I am one of them) the other person happen to be in my uni and all my classes as well. 

also, first year before you are "accepted" to the engineering college in my university their goal is to try to get you to quite as well, and let me tell you ALOT  of people did. 

so after all that, you know im not letting this dude come in my way, OH NOOO! 

my only non-asian professor is my spanish class professor :D he is awesome and soooo FUNNY! I had him last spring semester for spanish 101 and I loved that class, so I decided to take spanish 102 with him. the class was full, but since im one of his favorite students he gave me a "special" code to register to his classsss woho <3 

anyways, today was a snow day. we had another snow storm, it was wonderful :D I wanted to take some photos but I lost both of my memory cards :( agh!! wish me luck finding at least one of them! 

XOXO-SL

DIY jewelry holder

Hello everyone! I hope do you are having a wonderful week :) 

okay, so I got an idea for making my own jewelry holder things on the wall in order to keep everything organized and to make sure I dont loose anything (like I always do) 

its really simple, I just bought little wall pins from walmart yesterday for a dollar something! put them on the wall in an organized manner and voila! 

what do you guys think of this idea?

xox-S.L

update

Okay so recently I dont know what is going on with my internet. but apparently some of my favorite websites are like blocked or no longer work on my network :( 

I really dont know why, and blogger happened to be one of them so that is why I have not been able to post! 

its so weird, youtube, blogger and google do not work, however facebook has NEVER worked so faster in my life :'( 

so in the time im going to take a break and work on my schedules and stuff since classes start next week! wish me luckkkkkk, and see ya when my internet decides to be normal again SMH :P

xoxo-S.L

New Zodiac sign dates

Hello, so Im sure you've seen all the craziness going on with people REFUSING to have their zodiac sign change all of the sudden.
according to astronomers decided that over the years since the earth is not in the same place as before, the stars have shifted which means the horoscope signs are all different.
Only most leos are still leos haha!
well for me, when I was young everyone you looked I was a the last day of leo (my birthday is August,23) and than all of the sudden I became the first day of virgo! SO I was always in between and then I got used and accustomed to being a virgo, LOL I know it doesn't mean much, I dont believe in them but its always kind of cool. and y'know its kind of like someone saying oh your birthday is not the same, people ARE GOING MAD!

anyways, these are the new horoscope dates

Capricorn: Jan. 20 – Feb. 16
Aquarius: Feb. 16 – March 11
Pisces: March 11– April 18
Aries: April 18 – May 13
Taurus: May 13 – June 21
Gemini: June 21 – July 20
Cancer: July 20 – Aug. 10
Leo: Aug. 10 – Sept. 16
Virgo: Sept. 16 – Oct. 30
Libra: Oct. 30 – Nov. 23
Scorpio: Nov. 23 – Nov. 29
Ophiuchus: Nov. 29 – Dec. 17
Sagittarius: Dec. 17 – Jan. 20

as you can see theres a new sign called Ophiuchus 

LOL so what do you guys really feel about this? I know EVERYONE is pretty upset and refuse to accept it :P haha 

xoxo-SL

Arab women trying to be like western women.

Someone suggested I blog about arabic women, and western women.
this is going to be a very sensitive subject, and some may not agree but I hope that you are willing to agree to disagree :)
so I asked the person, what exactly do I write about arabic women, the person said how a lot of arab women today are trying to be like western women instead of embracing their natural arab beauty. I agree and disagree at the same time.
I believe that many YOUNG girls are trying to be anything but arabs.
But again, not all. I myself dress mostly in jeans and shirts rather than jalabiya or abaya, but then again I live and grew up in America.
I dont know.

one of the girls that came as an example was Aseel Omran, the Saudi Arabian girl that pretty much "broke" all the rules to being a girl from Saudia (according to Khaleeji and most Arabs)

me, personally I love this girl, shes really cute she has a baby face with big beautiful eyes.
but how could she?

• Show her hair 
• wear jeans and t-shirts instead of Abaya
• Wear makeup 
• Marry a non saudi 
• Be a singer 
• Be in a singing competition
• Be in a reality show for the rest of the world to see her in jeans and t-shirts? 

those are some of the things people in the Arab world in the khaleej area in particular say. according to Arabs, if a girl doesn't follow those rules than she is a wh*re.
wait what? so just because aseel omran is on a reality show with her husband, she is considered a bad person and a disrespect to the arab/khaleeji community. let me remind you that shes never overboard with the way she dresses and she never ever wears something that is considered "SEXY.

I think people should be open-minded and leave this girl alone! I do not see the difference between being outside and people can see your face and being on tv and still people can see your face, yet the one on tv is the "bad" one and the other is normal. if you are going to judge a girl for being on tv and showing her face as bad, than you should judge ALL the girls that simply show their face as bad. its called being a hypocrite.

anyways I hope I didnt offend anyone, that is just my own personal opinion :)
here are some more photos of aseel and her husband khaled :)

هي و هوTheir show which I love is called    

this is the trailer for the show

hope you enjoy