Sharing thoughts about my experience when I left the UAE to Norway in order to study PhD
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
The First Day in the University
Today 28.Aug since morning is raining, at 9:30 Marie a study consultant and Bjørn Furuholt, the head of information system department, came to get us to the police station to do the finger stamps and start working to get the residence card, at 11:00 when we finished the Professor Bjørn take me the university. It was at 12:00 meeting for our department, at that meeting my colleagues talked about their work and I introduced myself and talked briefly what I am going to do. The university is very nice and I have to take number for any service and really all people there are helpful. When I reached there I walked through all members in the department to say hello then they gave me a new laptop and show me my office then I went to take the key and the password for my account. I like how the people deal with each other and it seems it is very nice environment to work there.
Monday, 27 August 2012
Medical Tests
on 27-Aug. two persons, Marie & Professor Bjørn Erik Munkvold, from the university come to bring me & my family in two cars to do the medical tests, it was about two hours between a medical department then to the governmental hospital to do the radiology tests, all of this period both Marie & Prof. Bjørn stayed with us until finishing. then we went to down town and there we have seen a big supermarket selling the middle east products, so it was a great day.
Sunday, 26 August 2012
Arriving Kristiansand 23-Aug
The KLM airplan left Amsterdam about 8:45 and arrived Kristiansand at 10:00 PM. At the airport there was a person called Marie from the university waiting for us, she was very very helpful and she brought a van to take us to the furnished a partment that rented by the university to enable us settle down for a while until arranging our matters. In the second day she came and took us to the children school then to the down town and there she brought many maps and showed us how to use the bus service and other important shops and places. So thanks very very much Marie & thanks to the university of Agder.
Travel to Amman 22-Aug
the Visas were ready on Wednesday 22-Aug. and in same day we left Palestine to Amman to be able travel to Amsterdam. it was 6:00 pm when we left Qalqilya , 7:45 Isterahet Areha and 10:30 we arrived Amman
Thursday, 5 July 2012
Farewell Party on 26-6-12 - UAE
I had joined Arab Trade Financing Program - ATFP on 26-Jun-2005. On same date but in 2012 there was a farewell party for leaving ATFP. So my work at ATFP lasted for seven years and it was an experience included positive and negative situations but I left people who really deserve all the respect.
All the words from my colleagues really touched my heart especially in the farewell party , Thank you .Leaving the UAE - 27-Jun-2012
Leaving with my family Abu Dhabi , UAE, after 14 years of working and living in this beautiful country which I liked. It was a painful to leave such country after these many years but because I am going to a place - Norway which I think will also be a nice country and because of I am leaving to pursue my education which is related to my ambition, therefore my leaving to the UAE was not a tragedy and I am hoping it will be a positive change.
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