Advertising slowdown

It's Ramadan, the holy month that's recently been well known for the extensive advertising through various media including TV and radio, well it's different this time around with much less commercials being aired and old ones being shown, indicating weak production and insufficient funds available for advertising agencies and the various business organizations. The phenomenon is a clear example of the effect of the recent economic crisis on the economy and firms. Most probably this won't be the case next ramadan as the world is on it's way for recovery.

The International Student Summit 2009

  Taking place from the 30^th of June to the 2^nd of July at the Natural History Museum, The International Student Summit this year celebrated 150 years since the publication of "The Origin of Species" and Darwin's 200^th birthday. The Summit covered various topics from evolutionary biology to Darwin's way of thinking and the history of the evolutionary scientists and the evolutionary theories that have developed over time. Students were introduced to top notch lecturers who gave out exciting and enriching lectures covering various Darwin-related topics

  A hectic 3 day summit not only has allowed us to    

 discuss the various aspects of the evolutionary theory with top class lecturers, but has gave us the opportunity to tour the prestigious Natural History Museum and we were given the chance to visit some restricted areas and sneak a peak at the breath taking fossils that are not on display. Aside from the scientific dimension of the whole summit experience, what’s really worth mentioning is the dedication of each and every researcher and professor working at The Natural History Museum to the projects they’re working on and their commitment to science which indicates the clear and stable structure of the whole organization and the high coordination between the various scientists and workers at this respectful institution.

   The British Council in collaboration with The Natural History Museum worked really hard to make the whole summit experience enjoyable; everything was perfect from lunch meals and accommodation to the summit bag and all the goodies and stuff inside it. Moreover, the British Council coordinators were always there to help and were always supportive of activities to fill in the spare time left after the end of the summit events for the day; this most definitely has made me enjoy my stay in London.

   The trip also represented a valuable chance to meet over 100 students from all over the world and the opportunity to be introduced to several cultures based in different continents. In addition, it was quite exciting to get to meet other students of my age and know how they think and interact with others.

  All in all, the whole summit experience was extremely precious and is truly unforgettable. The trip was just overwhelming on so many levels from enriching my biological knowledge to visiting London and meeting new people.

Nobody's perfect

It's a quotation that is well known to all of us, but most importantly
the imperfections of others should be accepted and it should be known
that even your friends are not perfect human beings, though you should
learn how to get through those obstacles that prevents you from
getting along with your buddies. Accept, understand and forgive; those
are the keywords to your social survival

The laziness disease

As the summer vacation kicks off, it's now all about how you spend your time 

and once you start thinking of what you've long wanted to do, 

you find the tempting computer in front of you and facebook's calling, 

so you just give up on any thing useful to do for the day 

and choose to keep track of facebook's newsfeed (at least that's what happens to me).

It's the laziness that gets into you which leads to choosing the easy and less fun path

Empowering your body is the key to an enjoyable vacation

guide your body to the plans that your mind has set for you

you might think that you'll have a lot of time to do what you want

and the idea of delaying your plans might come to mind

You actually don't have much time

Beating the laziness is one thing that you should work on for an enjoyable summer

Egypt and the economic crisis

 2008 was one of the worst years that the world has witnessed economically, we've seen banks shut down, old and popular firms like woolworth's collapse, some countries have suffered -and still are- from an economic slowdown while others have already entered a recession. You may have read about all of these stories before and then wondered, is the economic crisis going to affect Egypt? The answer is yes, but don't worry it won't his us as hard as it hit the rest of the world

 Egypt is part of this world, we trade with other countries, we import and export. Therefore it's no wonder that we're going to be affected, but thank god our banks have enough liquidity to finance the various projects and have the ability to attract different investors. The crisis, never the less, will leave an impact on the income generated from the suez canal as a result of the decreased demand on importing affecting the trading process between countries. Moreover, Egypt's growth rate is expected to go down this year, the economic group's biggest challenge will be keeping this rate of decline to a minimum

 the government has already come up with a 15 billion Egyptian pounds bail out plan, which will be dedicated to three main areas, infrastracture, production & exports and investment in order to trigger the economy and fight the global economic slowdon.

   With such a bail out plan and multiple visits carried out by the the prime minister, the minister of trade and industry and the minister of investment to countries including Russia, Malaysia and England, I believe that Egypt is hopefully going to survive this crisis, but the main issue is the fact that if you're a teenager then you need to know about such a crisis. This is because in some way it can affect your future as you may not be able to find a job vacancy that easy, maybe because some firms will have been recovering from such a crisis by then and won't be able to recruite. Growth rates are going down which will certainly leave an impact on your daily life from the quality of public services offered to food prices (although it's believed that such a crisis will lead to a decrease in prices of various products but with the decrease in growth rates, it's definitely a matter of time till things get clearer).