Intilaaqah @ SQU
Just came from the Initlaaqah workshop @ SQU. It was not too bad. I’ve never been a natural public speaker, but I think that I’m improving. I was not fully prepared, I had no idea what I would be speaking about until about 24 hours before the event, I did not end up talking about being productive in your free time like I said in my previous post, but made a short talk about the one person/multiple careers culture that I’m practising – I even mentioned the book.
Random Tidbits:
- Even though I work at a ministry, we’re not one that offers a public service, so I’m not actually exposed to so much cultural diversity as I saw today in SQU, heard about a dozen accents in a single room, really cool.
- The ratio of girls to boys in the room was about 8 to 1.
- I was called Ridha, Raed, Tariq, and Talib in a single session. Is my name REALLY that hard to remember?!
When asked about their after uni plans, SQU students stated that they would be looking for a job in the-field-of-their-study. This is a huge cultural difference between our mentality and western/american culture where people do not necessarily care much about working in the same field of their study, many Omani students thought it was very important to mention that their future job MUST BE RELATED TO THEIR FIELD OF STUDY. Which is logical, but also very limited in view and perspective. I thought this was very interesting.
