Trip question

1. You wrote about your expectations for the trip before we went.  Now that we have gone, what was similar to and what was different from your expectations?

It was really a good experience for me to set with young kids in kindergarten school.Every thing was going as i expect ,but maybe some of the kids didn't like our story because it's little bit long.After that we start singing a different song and they knew all the songs that we chose so that maybe unexpected from them. 

2- Compare this elementary school to others you have seen.  What was similar and what was different?

I think that most of the elementary school are same in all the country.According to the elementary school that i went to when i was child they were using the same system of teaching  and the activities.But maybe the different in my elementary school that we were sharing our breakfast every morning and we spend time in the dining room in the school to learn the good and the healthy eating attitude.

What recommendations do you have for IECP students who go on trips like this in the future?

They should prepare more than one story,and talking about the recent interest things to this age.For example talking about the latest kids movie or cartoon as i did with my group i start talking about frozen and how they see it and do they love the movies song kind of these question.  

Interview question

 Interview question:

1. What is your name?
2. How old are you?
3. Where are you from?
4. What are the most things that you like about your country?
5. Is it your first time in the U.S.?
6. Have you been in other places beside state college?
7. What do you like in state college?
8. Do you enjoy studying in IECP?
9. Do you think that IECP is helping you to improve you English language?
10. What is your favorite subject?
11. Are you applying to Penn state after the IECP?
12. What is your major?
13. Why do you typically select this major?
14. Why you decide to start your high academic subject in the U.S.?
15. Why are you interested in studying this major?
16. Have you talked to someone in this major?
17. How much flexibility does this major have?
18. What courses should you are taking in high school to best prepare you for this major?
19. What do you think the skills will this major help you to develop?
20. What kinds of jobs do students who graduate with this major typically pursue?
21. Is it typical for students to graduate from this major in four years?
22.  What are the steps that you go throw to prepare you studying this major?
23. .  What are the activities that you're interesting to be involved in Penn state?
24.   What are you future plan?
25.   What kind of job do you like to work on? 

Summary of article #1 (Obesity)

 Fighting childhood obesity : it's a family affair

(Summary)

      In view of the increasing weight ratio for children in the United State. Most of the parents don't know how to deal with their children about their weight. Because it's hard for the families to tell their kids that they are over weight. And in the same time they don't want their kids lose their self-confidence or feel badly. So this article which written by Sara Verney in the National Public Radio (NPR) talked about Packard Pediatric Weight Control Program   which was founded to help family to solve this problem .

Packard Pediatric Weight Control Program was design on traffic light theme     and divided into three colors the red is for cake and cookies soda and some junk food. The yellow and the green was for food are not banned. As a real example Sara talk about story of child called Gabriel and how the program was helping him to lose weight , also she say that the doctor was with him from the beginning so he know about his weight and what will happen recently. The main problem was that the parents can't talk with their children because the don't want them change their images about themselves and it may affect them negatively. But the best way to solve this problem as she mentioned in the article that all the family have to be part of this program and they also have to apply on this program with their kids as a kind of support.

Since 1999, about 80 percent of the kids who apply for this program they have a new body with original weight and they achieved their goal.  

About me ..

Some things about me :

Hello everyone, I'm Abdulrahman from Saudi Arabia  , almost 19 years old .. Welcome to my blog .

I graduated from high school last year. After that i was looking for a different Universities and i choose Penn State University because it's one of the top university in engineering in the United state .

Actually as a young student it's hard for me to chose major because this choice will go with me throughout my life in the future. But I have two choices which are Architectural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and i hope at the end of this semester I can chose one of them.

My hobbies are swimming,playing piano,collect coins and in recent riding.I'm interesting in volunteering work and I have had joined different association such as Breast cancer association and Habitat for humanity . 

Finding a class to observe

	Class #1	Class #2	Class #3
Class name and # (for ex.: Ag 113)	A E 431 Advanced Concrete Design for Buildings	M E 340 Mechanical Engineering Design Methodology	M E 440W Mechanical Systems Design Project
Days and time it meets  (MTWRF,  2:30-3:20)	T R 9:45 AM - 11:00 AM	M W 3:35 PM - 5:30 PM	R 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Classroom	107 Sackett Bldg	314 Hammond Bldg	122 Engineering Svc Bldg
Professor’s name	Solnosky, Ryan Levi	Lamancusa, John Stephen	Rose, Damian Thomas
Professor’s email	rls5008@psu.edu	jsl3@psu.edu	dtr3@psu.edu
Reason you’re interested in observing it	It will help me to know more about the major that I'm interested in.	To have a background about mechanical engineering .	I'm interested to see what kind of project do students work on .