My Profile

Let’s talk about myself. My name is Rashed Saeed Salem al Maamari. I’m 19 years old. I was born in Abu Dhabi. Now I live in Al Rahba city which is about 50 Km away from Abu Dhabi. I have lived with my parents in Al Rahba since 1996. We are 15 brothers and sisters and I’m number 13 on the list.

M y Childhood

I had a wonderful and happy childhood, because my parents took care of me very well. Also my brothers and sisters liked to play with me, but some times they made me like their toy. I remember one day, my mother told me that when I was two years old, my mother was cooking the dinner, and she heard my brothers laughing in my room. When she came to my room, she saw my brothers throwing me from one to other like a ball! My mother was shocked and then she started screaming to stop my brothers. Thank goodness, I was saved. Because if she hadn’t came, something bad would have happened to me. When my mother told me that I’m going start going school, I was very excited but also a little bit worried, because I didn’t know what I’m going to do there and many other things. The first day was very interesting, because I was surprised at number of children in the school. I met new people that I had never seen. After few days, the school became my favored place to go. I remember one day when some of us did well in a quiz, the teacher sent us to the headmaster room to get gifts! The headmaster has two big boxes which were full of different types of toys and then he told us to take one toy that we wanted. What a nice prize for hard work.

M y teenage

My teenage years were a special period in my life, because I become more aware about things in this world. Also I had new interests like computer and reading. I’m not very interested in sports. For example football, l believe that football is the most popular sport in UAE and almost every one is charmed by this sport but I’m not! That makes all my friends wondering why. Many people think that football is wonderful and exciting, but I think sometimes it is dangerous and waste of time. For example, instead of wasting your time watching football match you can read a useful book that will help you. But on the other hand, I like having trips with my friends, playing games and many other things like any other teenager.

M y Travels

I rarely going out of UAE, sometimes I go to Oman to visit my uncle and cousins. Also I visit Africa once with my father. I would like to travel more and to many different countries to discover their culture, customs and see new things. Traveling makes the person know more about this world, understand other culture and have a lot of fun. I remember one time when I was in Oman with my uncle, I went climbing with my cousins to the near mountain. When we reached the top, it begun to rain heavily and quickly we found a cave to hide. We were cold and starving, because we were stuck there all the day. On the next day we came back home and my uncle punished us by staying at home for a week.

My Interests

In my free time, I have many things to do like reading. I like reading stories and comics for fun. Also I read science and computer books. It’s very interesting and useful. I love pets very much, that’s why I have a cat and aquarium with cute fish inside. They are like my friends. I have a lot of fun when I feed the fishes and play with my cat. They add happiness to my life. The most thing I’m interest in is computer, not playing video games but designing. I like designing with programs like Photoshop and Flash. With these programs I can turn things in my imagination to real things and very beautiful. That makes me creative and feels happy and also it is very enjoyable.

Something that has influenced me

My view of the world and life changed massively when I visited Africa. I went there once with my father to visit his old friend. His friend lived on Pemba Island which is near another famous island called Zanzibar. We went there when I was 16 years old. The island is like paradise, full of trees and plants and that is why people called it “The Green Island“. Although the place looks great, the lifestyle is totally different. They are really paupers. The airport was very small and it is as big as medium sized primary school. The town is nice, but very small and dirty. Also it very crowded and some people live in the street! Out side of the town, things are a little better. There is the wonderful nature; every where in green, a lot of monkeys and birds and the pure air. On the other hand, there is no electricity at all! Also there is little transport. People makes fire to cook. All that made me realize how lucky I am to live in the UAE. It is huge difference between hearing and seeing poverty. I don’t complain any more when the electricity in shutdown, because I know that there are some people living without electricity. Also I don’t get angry if don’t live in big villa because there are others living in the street. The trip to Africa changed my life.

My Future

In the future I would like to be architect, because I love designing very much. I enjoy a lot when I design some thing like building or bridges that will help people and make their life easier. That is why I like playing designing games. It is like practicing for a future career. Also I would like to have good wife who can understand me and live happily together.