My Education

My Education

Being the eldest girl in our family, my high school experience was very new, and unexpected. In Saudi Arabia, girls and boysare not allowed to be in the same class and thus in high school I was at a pure girl’s school, Fiarest High School. Due, to the conservative nature of the Kingdom, being in high school was a great experience for me and most of my siblings mainly looked at me as a role model and a source of hope of and motivation.

Over the years, the Saudi Kingdom had liberalized the system of education especially towards the girl’s school. This enabled me to have a normal high school experience and enjoy the facilities just like the other males in the boy’s school. For the first time in high school was allowed to pursue a wide range of subject and this made me very excited about school. In fact my whole perception about high school changed. I remember going back home and advising my siblings to work so hard so that they could get to high school since they would get an opportunity to study what they loved the most. Our schools were equipped with latest state of the art technology and thus we had significant facilities that we would enjoy during our free hours.

I must say it is in high school where I was able to sharpen my social skills and thus I was able to gain a lot of friends who were very helpful. Friends who we not only shared the good times but also shared our past experiences and the solutions to the day to day challenges that we faced as the girls of the next generation. It was there that I got the zeal to work and study abroad so that I could one day make an impact to the Kingdom. I owe my actualization to the great teachers that teachings that I was able to gain during my years in class. Despite facing some rebelliousness from some of the people around me in relations to school and conservative nature of the school. As for me I never let such things get into my head I would frequently visit my guidance and counselling teacher who would constantly encourage and also remind me of the saying “If you educate a girl, you educate a nation.” The saying never slipped my brain and I believe that I would be able to achieve all my goals as a result of the inspiration from the people that cared about me such as Mrs Farouq, the guidance and counselling teacher.