In this interview I will get to know how our grandfathers live their life in the past and how they spent their days. I have my uncle Ahmed to tell me more of how the UAE was in the past and what things they used to do. My uncle Ahmed is 57 years old and he has lived his life in the UAE and was born there. I asked him first what makes you healthy and strong and live a healthy life without getting weak. And he said: "before we used to eat healthy and do traditional sports to get strong and to prevent the sickness to get us and as you can see now from what we used to do we stayed alive and did not suffer from anything".
Then I asked him what sports he did? He said:"we used to live near the sea which is in Sharjah and go to the sea and dive and swim for almost 9 hours every day". In the past they used to sail and dive a lot and they used to know how to build ships without having to use computers or modern equipment. Other than that I asked my uncle Ahmed what else did you do in the sea? He replied: "we used to make racing sailboats and make a competition and race with them and that also we considered it like the best sport to get healthy".
Also I asked him what women used to do in their daily life. He said:" women used so take care of the house and the farm; also they used to knit or weave to make clothes or to spend their time in something useful. In 1998 they chose Sharjah city as the cultural capital for Arabs until today. Until today the UAE cultural club maintains the traditional sports of diving or racing sailboats and does activities in order to keep our culture alive.
