I am in the newspaper
I know it is really childish to be excited about this, but I was really super excited when i read my name in the news paper today! I was quoted about the conference my organization had yesterday.
The article is in Jordan Times and it is called Project seeks to get more women into the workforce. Basically the project aims at empowering women and get them to be more involved in the developing the economy in Jordan and in Gaza.
We were dashing last week from the printary to the hotel and from the translators to the office. The phone… that perfectly dreadful machine just did not stop ringing for weeks! I do not often spend a nuit blanche, but the day before the conference, the night was so blanch that I did not see a moment of darkness! I woke up at 3:00 Am literally after fifteen minutes of falling asleep because i was filling the badges with the names, and the only time i could do this was at 2:00 am with the support of my parents who were unable to sleep being even more worried than I was! so they took the task of cutting the names into squares while i was stuffing the badges. When I started laughing hysterically at my father’s jokes, I knew that it was time to try and get some sleep, and fifteen minutes later, I was hearing the phone ringing… only the phone was not! It was my subconscious that was completely contaminated with the sound of the bloody phone! The conference went really well, many people showed up and it was very interactive, women from different socio economic backgrounds were invited, the decision makers, very achieving women, who are dedicating their lives for the good of the other women. However these other women are only an idea, they are not real, no one speaks to them, no one knows what their needs really are. The only way was to put both worlds together. Invite those women who are the target of all these developing schemes and plans.
I was very proud of my ladies, who showed up very dignified, and spoke very eloquently, and said really nice things about the project and its effects on their lives as witnesses.
I was too nervous during the whole event to enjoy it… I was really happy waking up today, knowing that it has passed in peace. But, as a matter of fact, the people who had wven a better night than I are my parents, who were on the edge for weeks… worried than no one will show up, or that we will start jumping like hens and rabbits during the conference…
It is not childish to be happy about that. Congratulations, it is always exciting to be apperciaited.
Hello again Madas
Congratulations on your conference to empower women in Jordan and Gaza! It sounds like you worked very hard toward this important goal, and I think that you deserve the reward of recognition that you received from the newspaper! Also, it is great to hear that you have such supportive parents!
In the U.S. most women today take for granted that they are already empowered and can work in any field that they choose. However, it was not always so! Prior to the 1930’s, women in the U.S. were very restricted in the sorts of jobs that they could do. It took the onset of WWII, which send millions of American men overseas to war, to force a rethink of women in the workplace. Women entered the factories to do the jobs of the absent men. They not only proved that they could do the work, they often did it better than the men! I think that men are just lazier by nature!
I trully think it is childish
I mean i should be used to being in the newspapers everyday! and it should be part of my daily life… of course i am joking… but you are right, we should acknowledge appreocation and attention
well hello again
it was really hard work to prepare this conference… but i love working with the ladies on weekly basis… they are sweet and keen and ambitious and want to learn…and now they started joking and considering me part of their lives… honestly i feel these 2 hours in the morning are the highlight of my day…
As for women in the States… they have moved a great deal from that time till today, however… i the balance has tipped off the other way… there is a clear discrimination against white men in the USA, which is the other extreme…
Madas, I am curious, from what you said about the situation in America, I am wondering if you have visited the U.S.?
Regarding discrimination against white men, there has been some of that, but I don’t think if is a very serious problem. I can assure you that the power structure in America is still very much dominated by white men. Most of these have very large and old family fortunes that were built on the backs of slave laborers, and later upon other forms of societal domination. As you might infer, I have a very low opinion of aristocrats!
its nice to be childish sometimes
i’m childish all the time,i watch cartoon, etc.
congrats
Hi again, I lived in the US for a while. Of course you are right, as a society the USA is still very dominated by white men, for example there has never been a woman or a black president, and yes old money is controlled by white families… However, now the American society is very conscious of this descrimination, and they are adopting the reverse descrimination policy, which might create a problem in the future….
you are right, I wont argue… it is very important to be childish
Hi Madas - check the paper again today. You’ve made a second appearance! (Weekender section of the Jordan Times).
Congrats - or mabrouk, I should say
Grace, it looks like you are my key to becoming famous, since you reported the two stories… thanks dear, it is sort of cool
Anytime! Don’t mention it! Let me know if you come across any more story ideas!
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