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| ID: | 1316 |
| Title: | Days Of My Life |
| URL: | http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/ |
| Category: | Regional: Asia |
| Description: | Daily life of a teenage girl in Iraq. |
| Thanks for being patient .. - Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:51:00 +0000 |
after my first semester exams, I took a week off, and went to Baghdad with my family … Oh what a great vacation, with my grandparents, relatives and neighbors .. We arrived on Friday, and spent a great week ,visited our neighbors and relatives, went shopping 5 times, visited my favorite place " Al Roubai'e street" , went to the restaurants in Baghdad, celebrated valentine (grandpa took us to a nice restaurant) ,oh Baghdad looked wonderful that day, it was full of white and red , people dressing red, carrying roses and balloons, restaurants were filled with lovers and the decoration was special that day, I ordered a steak and it came with a heart shape candle, such a lovely idea.. for one day I forgot all about situation and routine .. people celebrate that day with their loved ones and families, and I heard a guy talking in one channel he said " this year, people exaggerated in celebrating valentine they're walking carrying red bears, roses , balloons and cars are filled with roses , load music everywhere, and that's all happening to embitter those who threatened us not to celebrate valentine, it is an overreaction" .. well, I love any occasion that express love and care between people ..       we celebrated my delayed birthday, and my sister's birthday , the best part is we went to two parites "YAAAAAY". My neighbor who's a high school teacher got married , so we went to her laylat al hinna party and to her wedding .. I've written about our weddings tradition few years ago.. Laylat al hinna,is the day before wedding (or two days before wedding), where the bride celebrate with her family ,relatives and friends , and it's from our traditions to put hinna in little figure for the bride and groom (the bride can wash it immediately if she doesn't like the orange color), and then the bride put hinna for everyone who wants .. So, we had lovely time, and they hired a band of two women (one of them sings and the other play music) .. The wedding was nice and I had fun in both parites.. When we came home from the wedding, grandma prepared delicious ice cream , and that was the end of Baghdad visit events .. Two weeks ago, my family and I spent two days in Dhook, we stayed in a nice motel , the view was gorgeous, my brother (8 years old)kept asking are we still in Iraq?? He didn't believe so! Everything looks different, the streets, the traffics , the malls, we felt different, safe, and remembered what is it like to walk in the street with sense of dignity, no police yelling or concrete walls everywhere, I hope every city of Iraq become like the northern cities .. We went shopping (my favorite hobby !!), had nice lunch in a restaurant called malta, it was an elegant place, also visited Dhooks dam, and went to dream city (children's city), it was so much fun, and in the next day we went to anishky cave, then had lunch in nice restaurant, and went to a mall..                I Thanks for being patient .. Sunshine  |
| A Holiday without Break !!.. - Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:24:00 +0000 |
My exams will start on Wednesday, so I've been studying hard since the holiday began .. This year (as well as last year), we had our mid-year -holiday (which lasts for two weeks) before our exams!!! Because Shiites have their own "religious ceremony" We all felt frustrated, we were supposed to have a rest for two weeks after exams, and now we should spend time studying hard as professors gave us more subjects and we expect the questions to be more difficult as we had extra time to study (as they said) !!! .. I studied a lot, solved hundreds of questions , studied my own lectures, as well as lectures of last year to get benefits of their notes , brought helpful books and resources and solved the mid questions of the past 4 or 5 years! engineering is an awesome field and I want to enjoy my time in college , so this year I didn't pay attention to our professors' hard character and the way they try to let us feel down especially when they show-off and talk about how no student could answer their questions and the low percentage of success among students etc .. this year I feel more busy but much more relaxed and enjoy the subjects I am reading without being disturbed and their words rolling in my mind all time … I have faith in god and all I can do is, being the best I can , why should I pay attention to negative comments that will not improve my skills nor help me at all??… I really want to write a long post and have millions on thought is my head .. but my spare time barely exists .. I spend the majority of time studying , and when I finish I have housework to do , since my mom had her back disk I try to rush and do all housework need to be done so that she doesn’t hurt her back… I promise to write after my exams end(they last for less than for 3 weeks) , thanks for being patient with me :D  I took this picture today while I was studying … Sunshine  |
| Merry Christmas - Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:18:00 +0000 |
Merry Christmas my dear readers.. may all of your dreams come true and may you spend a wonderful Christmas..  i wish you a peaceful and safe Christmas with the one you love, may god bless Iraq and hopefully one day all casts can celebrate their ceremonies peacefully  Sunshine  |