Saranidia wrote:Samudera Darussalam wrote:After muttering some good-byes at Fatimah, the Samuderan princess walked in quick steps to the class, silently praying that the teacher has yet to arrive. A quick glance at the etiquette class proved that God heard her prayers.
"Alhamdulillah...." Fatma muttered silently.
I'm not late for class in my first day here. If what happened otherwise, I can't imagine the shame.After placing her bag in the school locker and took some empty notebooks with her for the upcoming lesson, the Samuderan princess's brown eyes scanned the class fo a while. She noticed that many seats are still empty, left unoccupied, mostly the ones in the front. The girls/women who have arrived tend to sit in the back, whispering and laughing at something only known to them. She rolled her eyes.
The gossiping session began already? Wow, much expected. The young woman decided to take the second seat from the front, the one located near a window that gives her a view of the place outside the building. She sighed, doodling some sceneries of her hometown, Palembang, while waiting for the teacher to arrive.
Fatimah also arrives.
The teacher, Sheikha Aisha Qureshi, PHD
asks "Can you write or type all the honorifics you know and who the honorific applies to?"
Fatimah types"His/Her Majesty-Monarch of England, Monarch of Spain, monarch of Malaysia, Khawaja- Sufi teachers,
His/Her Excellency- Ambassadors, Generals
Sir, Chevalier, Shawafilah- Knights, Dame-female knights, Hazrat or His/Her Emminence- the monarch of Saranidia, His/Her Grace- Catholic clergy, non-royal Dukes and Duchesses of the UK, Qadriani Sufi leaders, His emminence- Catholic cardinals, Doctor- persons achieving a university doctorate, Mayoress- Wife of a UK civic mayor, His Lordship/Her Ladyship- lords or ladies, His/Her Honour- Al Saranidi judges, legal aid lawyers,public prosecutors and public defenders, members of the National People's House of Delegates and persons wounded in combat for Saranidia, His/Her Royal Highness- royals who are not monarchs in many places, Baron/Baroness- life peers.."