Report about Abdulla's PP

     On Wednesday, 19th of November in class F11, Abdulla Dhafer Al Qubaisi made a presentation about Australia and it took about 15 minutes from 3:05 to 3:20.

     Abdulla started his presentation with confidence and did his best to keep his eye contact with the other students; his voice was clear and loud and everyone could hear it; he stood next to the board so everyone could the presentation without disturbance and without using any notes he memorized every small detail, The presentation was well organized starting from the beginning of his life there until the end.

     He started the presentation with Australia’s map and then moved to his story when he used to live in Australia for two years from 2009-2011; he stayed with an Australian family and studied English in Shafston university; he talked about his daily life and his friends who met them in Australia and talked about the most important places to visit in Australia like Gold Coast and the Brisbane bridge, and some events like the new year festival; what attracted the students the most was the nice pictures of Australia which were taken by Abdulla himself.

     Overall Abdulla presented in a professional way without any mistakes and kept the students attracted mostly all the time with his nice speech.

My reflection on the meeting

          On Wednesday 10th of October,2012F11 classroom I called a meeting with my secretary mr.Abdulla and two participants who are mr.Ahmed and mr.Saif. Iam the chairman of my group Khalifa Almehairbi, I started the meeting at 03:15pm with describing how serious the problem is of traffic congestion in the capital city Abudhabi to avoid conflicts in rush hours. All members worked hard the secretary mr.Abdulla  wrote lots of notes and tried his best to keep up with us and to cover every small detail, and so did the two participants they gave alot of useful ideas and I liked the best the way they argued with each other to convince each other.

          In the meeting we discussed alot of ideas which works better than the other for example the idea of increasing the parking lots, do we build more buildings for parking lots which is cheaper or to build an underground parking lots which cost more but useful to use the upper space for something useful like parks and shops. In addition, we should increase the numbers of tunnels and bridges to distribute the system tunnels in side streets and bridges in main roads.

 

          Finally we reached our purpose of this meeting and agreed on 5 solutions, I liked the work they done and their ideas specially the idea of increasing the public transportation to decrease the number of vehicles on streets and looking forward to apply this ideas.

traffic congestion minute taking

The Chairman Khalifa Al Mehairbi opened the meeting at 14:30.

Khalifa Al Mehairbi called the meeting in order to discuss the above agenda and he started it by reminding us how serious the problem is?

1- Underground parking:

Saif suggested to build underground parking for each building or property, Ahmed objected him by mentioning that underground parking lots is costly therefore he came up with the idea of building parking building instead of it, Saif convinced Ahmed because the space above the underground parking is can be useful for something else like building facilities or another parking lots.

2- Improving the existing traffic system:

Khalifa said, how about we improve the existing traffic system by distribute the traffics and roads equally so the cars can move smoothly, moving the the residential areas outside abudhabi island for example; Khalifa city A,B, alshamkha, mohammad bin zayed and yas island etc.

3- Synchronize traffic lights:

Synchronizing the traffic lights was mentioned by saif as one of the solutions for example alkhaleej alarabi street when one traffic light opens you can drive 80km/h therefore, you will pass all signals green until you reach the end of the street to cornice st.

4- Building tunnels and bridges:

Ahmed came up with the idea to build more bridges in main streets in the middle of the main island approached with exits every two blocks to make it easier and faster for the drivers and well distributed and smooth. Also, he suggested to add more tunnels in side streets linked to the main streets, it was tested and applied in alsaada road and it works perfectly to diverge those who want to keep going in a straight line while the others need to cross the street without being conflicted with other lines.

5- Public transportation:

In addition, Abdualla said that public transportation as busses, metros, subways and trams would be useful solution to decrease the numbers of vehicles and drivers in streets as long as it was qualified under the supervision of department of transportation with a weekly maintenance for the vehicles.

In conclusion, we agreed the following:

1.increase the underground parking lots and attach it with buildings.

2.improving the existing traffic system and redistribute it with more lines.

3.synchronizing the traffic lights.

4.build a main bridge in the middle of the city attached with supplemental small bridges.

5.build more tunnels in the side streets.

6.increase the amount of transportation facilities: busses, trams, metros and subways.

Interview report

     On last Thursday afternoon at 3:45 P.M. the interview was held in the classroom number W105, the interviewers were Mr. Hedley Butterfield, Mr. Othman Marzooqi and Ahmed Mansouri, and they were interviewing Mr. Ahmed Alshehhi.

     The interview started with Mr. Hedley asking Mr. Ahmed to introduce himself, he’s 34 years old, a married man without kids living in an apartment in Corniche Street in front of the sea view. Ahmed started his career in 1996 and graduated with a diploma degree in business in 2000.

     Mr. Othman started asking questions with what is your greatest strength? Mr. Ahmed answered, “I have a great experience in all situations and departments; I worked in many banks like ADIB(Abu dhabi Islamic Bank), ADCB(Abu dhabi Commercial Bank) and I could survive working in Etisalat for 7 years  and that is a miracle”; when he started working he was a normal employee dealing with customers most of the time which helped him to gain an awesome experience dealing with tough customers and then he used this experience with higher positions as the senior manager in the main branch in ADIB.

     Another question was asked by the interviewer Mr. Ahmed Mansouri to Mr. Ahmed Shehhi.   Why should we hire you? Straightaway with confidence he answered “I have a long experience and currently Iam the senior manager of the main branch of ADIB; I am creative and I can improve and develop many functions, departments and help other employees to be more creative and helpful for your company which will get this company to a higher level.

     After a moment of silence the interviewers asked Mr. Ahmed Alshehhi if he had questions for them. Mr. Ahmed asked about the position he will hold and what salary will he take. They answered that they will let him manage a department and see how he could improve in their company. They asked what salary he expected and he said not less than 70% of my current salary.