Insight Dubai Conference Fourth Day

On Wednesday 30th of March 2011, the Insight Dubai Conference was celebrating it's fourth day.  Our morning began at 9:00 am at our red team classroom to plan a session about human trafficking. Our facilitator displayed her presentation which generally explained what's human trafficking. The international students stated how this issue is currently in their country and what is happening about it. In addition, the Emirati students gave their opinions.

After the planning session, all groups headed to the multi purpose hall to attend a speech given by a guest speaker from Dubai Foundation for Women and Children TBC. An Emirati women was the guest speaker which was insipiring. She started her session by introducing what is human trafficking and some facts about it in countries around the world which was heart breaking. The speaker was inpsirational because of her passion towards helping those children who are victims of this issue. She wanted to help and is helping who are in need. Furthermore, she gave us examples of children who she is dealing with their cases to help them improve. For example, a girl who was forced into human trafficking by her own father but she can't understand why her own parent would put her through this and that she still loves him. Moreover, she showed us drawings of the children who suffered from this problems. The drawings represented their feelings, personalities, and what they wish for.

After the speech, we went back to our classrooms and small groups to prepare a poster about a topic under human trafficking. Our poster topic was about organs trafficking. We brain stormed and planned together. In addition, when we decided on a specific way to follow for our poster idea we searched and designed it together. Although we had a short amount of time to finish the poster, we worked hard together and as a team and we managed to finish it even before time. We felt the team spirit. Our poster's idea was about two sides, one is the life of a boy or a girl before being victims of human trafficking and they are happy with bright colors. The other side is dark and bloody which is the end of the victim of the crime. Here's a look to our creative poster.

After our hard work we deserved a decent meal. Therefore, we all went to have lunch together on a huge table. We ate and discussed our poster and how much we were proud of ourselves. Next thing we know the organizers were calling us to the hall to attend the presentation of the posters. We went and sat in the front row to cheer for our group while they're presenting our poster. They did great.

Since our group were the first to present, we felt relieved and listened and watched to the other seven groups present their posters. All of the groups had interesting and creative ideas. I was shocked to see some bold posters which expressed how brave these women are. In the end, every group was a winner to learn about this topic. Here are the posters all together.

 Here comes the very exciting part which is getting ready for the desert safari trip! We were all super excited and even most of the Emirati students haven't tried safari ever. As we went to the parking there were more than twenty 4 wheels cars to take us to the desert! Every six girls were seated in one land cruiser car.

 It took us about 30 minutes to get to the desert. Once we arrived to the sandy land we got all scared and nervous from the safari. Screams were in every car and we were scared and having fun at the same time. The car was jumping on the mini sandy hills and doing crazy moves. We were laughing at ourselves because it was really funny to be scared. Here is some a pictures that I managed to take while we were in the crazy jumpy car.

After the crazy ride everyone was so tired and some were even nauseous, but it was worth it. So, we took a break in the middle of the desert and we all left the car to have fresh air. The view was amazing and it was during the sunset. People were having photoshoots and relaxing on the beautiful sand. Here are some pictures of the beauty of the desert during the sunset break.

After the relaxing break, we wnet back to the cars and continued our safari trip. Then we arrived to our amazing camp that was organized by a company. The camp was great it included a barbeque, drinks, desert, buffet sections and a woman to make henna. The most important part of the camp was the middle of it. It had a circled dance floor and surrounded by seats on the floor.

The first thing we did when we arrived was to eat and sit to enjoy the place. At first there was a big que for the henna lady. Especially the international women wanted to try it. When everyone had dinner, we were all ready to dance and get the part started. All men went outside, doors were closed, and lights were off. The party was so much fun and everyone danced together there was no one sitting down. As an international student said, the language we all knew was dancing. Then, my buddy and I went to get our henna before we go back home. It was lovely and simple, we got same henna designs.

All in all, this was great and we had a lot of fun we didnt want to go back home and end the party even though we were all tired.

This was the summary of the fourth day, only one day left to blog about!