First reflective statement

LSC 2103 is an academic reading and writing level 2 course; it is to improve our reading strategies which we have learnt in the previous course and get information from different sources with APA format referencing for creating an academic report. In addition we will keep practicing on summarization skills, and vocabulary exercises.

I have learnt about the blogger so far; it is a new way for me to post and share my documents with the teacher and my colleagues. Creating a new blog was the first step in our class; it is a good tool to have as many blogs  I like and classify them in groups which keeps you in privacy.

In LSC 2103 course I expect to get a good background about reading and writing skills by choosing suitable sources for researching, and how to transfer the ideas to my paper by my own words.  Meaning of new vocabularies I will know about them and usethem in my work.

Hedley was born in England; he is married with two daughters; his career started in 1992.He has worked at Bell Educational Trust Summer Schools. Hedley as an Englishman; he likes rugby. He has traveled to many countries for working and holidays.

The hajj

Each year about 2 million Muslims from all over the world go to Mecca to do the hajj, this pilgrimage is a pillar of Islam. Once life time all Muslims should perform the hajj. It starts on the eighth day of Dhul-Hijjah.The mosque in Mecca is special to Muslims; the ka’aba is located in the middle of the mosque, and it is the direction for Muslims to pray. The pilgrims follow the prophet Muhammad in the biggest annual mass movement of people in the world. The Saudi authorities are taking a huge responsibility to host the hajj. Pilgrims stay in hotels or tents. All pilgrims must be vaccinated to prevent epidemics. Before entering Mecca, pilgrims stop for cleansing rituals, then wear white robes. Pilgrims start their first Tawaf seven time around the Ka’aba, then perform Sa’i and go seven times between the hills of Safa and Marwah. On the first day of the hajj pilgrims travel about three miles(4.8kms) to Mina for an overnight stay and in the morning they go to Arafat. In the evening pilgrims travel to Muzdalifah where they camp. After that pilgrims go back to Mina to throw seven pebbles at each of the three statues at the Jamraat. The pilgrims will return to Mecca for Tawaf and journey again between the hills of Safa and Marwah and then return to Mina for three days of prayers. Finally will be the last Tawah around the Ka’aba in Mecca.