Day 1
Tuesday 24/06/08
lunch at maryam’s grandfather’s house
introduction
ZU Cultural presentation
-UAE Old and new: Asma, Maryam Al Sayegh
- Islam: Maryam Zarouni
-Abaya: Shamsa, Sharina
LUNCH with family
-Emirati sweets: Roudha + tasting
Dubai Museum
Day 2
Wednesday 25/06/08
Gold Souq
Al Ahmadiya School
Bait Al Trath
Abra Ride
Day 3
Thursday 26/06/08
Jumeirah Mosque
Madinat Jumeirah
Nakheel (Presentation + Palm Jumeirah)
Day 4
Friday 27/06/08
Mey’s Wedding Ceremony at Grand Hyatt
Day 5
- Meet up in Mall of the Emirates some girls went to Ski Dubai, dinner, and others preferred shopping.
Day 6
- Brain storming, discussed our views and opinions that we had on one another. So we listed the stereotypes we had about the United Arab Emirates and United Stated.
- Came up with the mission statement.
- Couple of ideas or approaches to how we were going to implement this in our project.
- Got a critique from the professors.
- Project name was founded.
- Started writing our the questions for the survey.
Day 7
- More questions were written.
- WordPress account was created.
- After agreeing on the questions, we have published them online and sent out the links to people we knew.
- Facebook account was also created.
Day 8
- Gathering the responses.
Day 9
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Day 11
Dinner at Mina al Salam in al Muna restaurant hosted by MICA.
Day 12
- Group critique in class.
- After the critique we decided to actually change our approach completely. The problem was how do we interpret these responses in a graphical way. So we looked at information graphics.
- Moreover, after choosing the different reds from the UAE and USA flag we decided to use some of the questions for the posters. We compared and contrasted them in
Day 13
- Some of us worked on the posters, translations, stickers, blog and illustrations.
Day 14
- Finalized everything
- Irina, Roudha, Noora and Asma were all interviewed for this documentary.
- Went to the printing press at around 1pm
- Went again to Al Suwaidi to print the book at around 8pm.
- Assembled the book, cd, stickers and poster and we were done by 3 am.
Day 15
- Rachael interview
- ZU/MICA presentations
اليوم الأول
الثلاثاء24 /06/08
الغداء في بيت جد مريم
المقدمة
عرض طالبات جامعة زايد عن حضارت الامارات
حاضر و مستقبل الامارات: مريم الصايغ ـ اسماء
الإسلام: مريم الزرعوني
عباية: شمسة ـ شرينة
غداء عائلي
حلوه اماراتية: روضة
متحف دبي
اليوم الثاني
الأربعاء 25/06/08
سوق الذهب
مدرسة الأحمدية
بيت التراث
ركوب العبرا
اليوم الثالث
الخميس 26/06/08
مسجد جميرا
مدينة جميرا
نخيل : عرض + النخلة في جميرا
اليوم الرابع
الجمعة 27/06/08
حفل زفاف مي في جراند حيات
