Paper

Prof. Plec

Environmental Communication

04/04/2015

“Self in Nature Narrative”

Once upon time in an unusual cozy and fogy afternoon, I was happily and freely walking and holding my beautiful fiancé’s hand by one of the nicest beaches in the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia that exactly located in Jeddah City. All of sudden while we were walking, sadly and badly I saw a pinch of garbage including cans, papers, glass bottles, dirty and smelly food, plastic bags, destroyed electronics devises, batteries, and bulbs that truly bothered me and completely ruined my temperamental and mood. After seeing that fortunate view, all what I thought about was that there something has to be done in order to not destroyed others mood and make the beach brighter and more better that how it is. I sent multiple mails and e-mails to the Jeddah city Municipality about what I saw. After I sent them I waited for couple of days hoping that I will hear back from them but too bad I never did.

I told myself that I should do something myself to solve this issue. One of the nights in my enormous and huge family house, I invited couple of my closest friends over for a humble dinner as well as to discuss a new idea that I came up with the night before the dinner night that I thought it will truly and slightly benefit my village that located half an hour north Makkah Almukramah city where almost 800 people live at it. I said my village not that beach because first of all the beach is two hours and fifteen minutes driving away from where I live. And I guessed that none of my friends will be able to go there just take care of the beach. So the idea I came up with is that to start gather garbage, trash, and anything that can be recycle as well as to make and share awareness about how that my benefit the village. One of my friends interestingly asked me that what made you thought about this and I replied to him telling that story that happened to my fiancé and I in that beautiful beach.

Almost every one of those who came to my family’s house if not all seemed that they loved the idea. After discussing that, we decided to make a team of 6 members including myself whom came to the dinner and we named it in Arabic language “Ahb Altdweer” which in English means “I love to recycle.” Also, during that dinner we came up with two different missions that three make posters and put them and share them in the village and the other three to make online posters and share them with our village’s people in twitter and Facebook in order to bring as many people as we can into our new team and tell people about our team.