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Ghada arrived in London from Jerusalem and observed several differences from her home. The houses were terraced rather than detached, and the front gardens were narrower with overgrown weeds rather than colorful flowers. Ghada locked away her memories of Palestine while her mother brought elements of their Palestinian culture to London by replacing carpets with traditional tiles and vigorously mopping them daily.

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Ghada arrived in London from Jerusalem and observed several differences from her home. The houses were terraced rather than detached, and the front gardens were narrower with overgrown weeds rather than colorful flowers. Ghada locked away her memories of Palestine while her mother brought elements of their Palestinian culture to London by replacing carpets with traditional tiles and vigorously mopping them daily.

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ARRIVING IN LONDON

Oxford International Approach

Zainab Alam

Ans1) When Ghada first saw London it was like nothing she had ever seen before.
She felt chilly even though the weather was warm and sunny according to the
weather standards. Ghada and her sister had heard that it rained very frequently in
London. They expected rain, but were disappointed when they did not see even a
drop of water on the ground. When they got in the taxi, she observed that the cars
where moving in the wrong direction, but that was not the case because all the cars
in London moved on the left side of the road.

Ans2) There were several aspects of the house that made a great impression on
Ghada such as, the typical terraced houses, nowhere similar to the their detached
house in Jerusalem. Then the front gate of the house was wooden with a hedge that
acted like a wall. Other than that, the front door had the house number written on,
which was number 133 and along the front door was a small frosted glass pane
window.

Ans3) The garden of their London house was nowhere similar to their garden in
Jerusalem. The London garden was more lush green than the Jerusalem garden
because in Jerusalem there were more vine tress and colorful flowers that muted
the contrast of greenness. The London garden was narrow and long with bordered
wooden fences on both the sides. The garden was not well maintained as there
overgrown masses of weeds and long grass. The Jerusalem garden was full of
colorful flowers and trees and here in London the garden only had two struggled
mature apple trees.

Ans4) Everyone has their own way to move on in life and not grieve about the past
and Ghada’s way was to lock up the every memory of Palestine in a private
memory place where it will always remain magically frozen in time.
Ans5) Ghada had her own ways not to grieve for her past and her mother had her
own. Hers was that she brought her culture, her country Palestine to London.
Despite England’s cold weather, Ghada’s mother removed all the carpets
downstairs and replaced them with typical reddish brown Arabian tiles in order to
revive the taste of Jerusalem. She would everyday get down to her knees and
vigorously mopped the tiles with soapy water by using a cloth which made the
house even more cold.

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