First post

I was asked to make a blog for one of my mass communications courses. So I am guessing that this is counted as our first assignment. I have had this blog for almost a year now, but never got around to posting anything. This will obviously be changed now due to my professor’s enthusiastic love for blogging. So now that I have this opportunity, I plan to keep a steady flow of blogs along with new music I hear or find out about.

My name is Mike Nammour and I was born in hick town Southern Ontario, to parents Cheryl and John Nammour, June 3rd, 1991. I lived there until I was four years old when my dad got a job offer in paradise, also known as Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. To be honest I had the time of my life goring up in the desert. Although being kind of enclosed to everyday Saudi life, I had always managed to make the most of it. Growing up there was really a stage in my life where I could never regret. And because you have such a close knit society in which you could live in (compound life), you tend you make really good friends.

I basically did my k-12 in Saudi other than those 2 years I spent in Lebanon due to the bombings that were happening in Riyadh. Eventually we went back and I stayed there until I graduated high school. I graduated from the American International School of Riyadh in 2009.

After graduation I travelled back to Canada where I was accepted into Carleton University in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario. I applied and started off as an economics major, but shortly after realized that all those numbers and graphs were nothing of what I wanted to be. Although that took me 3 semesters to realize, I decided to change my educational path and be involved in something that I could use my love for music, filmography, and marketing all in one field. I then decided that I would give mass communications a try.

I have always had an interest for media, and how companies can manipulate what they are previewing, and somewhat convince people of the most outrageous things. So getting involved in this field I feel will enable me to have an understanding of how the media actually works, and maybe one day use its magic.

This is actually my first ever, so I’m still trying to find what kind of voice I want to put out through here. But that’s why I’m here. I'll leave you with a song by a band that was a constant soundtrack to growing up in the Middle East.