Hi my name is Christopher Hage. I was born in Lebanon but
currently living in Abu Dhabi. I am in Grade 11 and this is my first year in
the IB Diploma Program, in Raha International School. This blog post is for me
to have a creative outlet to express my journey through this school year.
I am very interested in sports mainly basketball, because I’ve
been playing it since I was little and have been enjoying ever since. As well
as that I also enjoy going out with my friends on the weekend, because school
is very stressful and everyone deserves a little time once a week to blow off some
steam no matter what it is. However this year I will have to be doing a lot of
sacrificing of basketball and going out if I want to achieve my goal. That goal
is to pass IB with a good score and the only way to do that is to stay on top
of things between the works that my teachers give us. Thus all my other interests
will have to be more of a thing I do when I have free time so I don’t lose my
grip on the tasks at hand, meaning I have to keep my priorities straight.
Part of this work was making this blog for my English
Language and Literature course. However this blog post is not all about
introducing myself it is also about expressing my personal views on the topics
in class. Our first topic this year is ‘Language and Culture’. For me being
from Lebanon and having lived there most of my life the changes I had to adapt
to were drastic. Because here there are all sorts of rules that you have to
accept because of the strict religion beliefs. Therefore the culture is very
different but something that I had to familiarise myself with because I live
here now. Language as well as culture plays a big role in my life as well,
considering I speak both Arabic and English fluently thus making me bilingual.
This is very useful because although I am in an Arab country/community most of the
people living here are foreigners, therefore in most situations I do not feel
left out due to my knowledge of both languages. Lastly I would define culture
as a particular group of people that come together and are defined by
everything from languages to religion etc.
Thank you for reading my first ever blog post watch out for more
next time with more blogs posts with Chris Hage. J
