from a dear friend in Baghdad...
My
dearest brothers and sisters,
Salaam
from Baghdad, the city of pain, hope, and magic tales... I am a 24 yrs. old
Baghdadi girl (or gal you take your pick-I may not be that young to be called a
girl!) and a trainee doctor-a final yr. medical student at Baghdad Medical
School… I was accepted at Baghdad Medical School in 2004, one yr. after the US
led invasion of my Iraq… Right now things on the ground in my Baghdad are
better than they used to be before… Back in 2006, 2007, and even 2008 going to
my college used to be a life or death decision, either you return back home
safely or not… So we used to miss classes and stay at home when things on the
ground get pretty messy (something which used to happen a lot in the past-and
even now but to a lesser extent) and get back to classes when things get a bit
quieter… Also many of our college professors were either assassinated or
received death threats that forced them to leave the country, the danger didn't
spare our college students either-some of them were random targets of the bad
guys, many others were forced to fled the capital so safer places either in the
North or the South or even outside of Iraq… Now the security situation on the
ground in Baghdad is better than it used to be before-our teachers and students
are coming back to their most beloved college, slowly and yet steadily… And yet
the danger is still there, may be the difference is that we're a bit less
afraid than we used to be before-before we used to get very intimidated pretty
easily by the bad guys but I guess that we just got tougher and stronger with
time, after all what doesn't kill you makes you stronger eh ? With my love…
Yours sincerely, Lubna N
Nice, and thanks for sharing this info with us.Good Luck!
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