A Star from Mosul

It's been a busy week, on Monday, I had a Grammar competition with Al-Zohoor secondary school for girls, although our students are superior than them, but they had that one very good girl who was answering all the questions, I know her 'cause she was with me in the Arabic private lessons. There was a cameraman and they videotaped the whole thing for Al-Iraqia Nineva TV.. I was supposed to see it on TV today, but we didn't have electricity!!
Anyway, we didn't win, we were even..

On Thursday night, I was praying upstairs when the electricity went off, I finished praying and decided to do some sport instead of waiting for the generator to be turned on... Unfortunately, before I could do any further move, I hit my forehead hard with the oil heater.. It didn't hurt so I just changed position till I felt the blood dripping on my face, and that's when I knew I've got a cut on my forehead..
Dad put a plaster on my forehead.. :( One more step to map my face.

The rest of the week was all exams, we started the 2nd part of the year exams before even having the mid-year exams.. It's so tiring. They just wouldn't give us any rest.

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I got a link to a story that is very interesting, read it here: US teen runs to Iraq!
But I think he hasn't seen anything, nor will, if he doesn't leave that hotel he's in.. But that's better for him!

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Oil prices are going UP fast, Gasoline raised from 50 dinnars to 1000, multiplied by 20 times! Dad is now paying more than half of his salary on fuelling the cars.. Students at the universities are on strike now because they can not affrod paying for the gasoline. And because we have no good public transportation (I've never been in a public bus, it's complete chaos, too dangerous for a girl), it is quite reasonable the students are not going to the university.

On another note, after the demonstrations I mentioned in my last post, the head of the Iraqi Youth and Students Union got kidnapped with his friend and was found dead after two days.

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I got an e-mail from a Moslawi citizen living far away, he was suggesting few projects for Iraq. One was to collect books for Mosul University's library. I read the e-mail to mom, hoping to get satisfaction, and she said that the university's library is so out-of-date.
And so dear readers, I ask for your help. I'm planning to collect books in enviromental engineering at first, since that's mom's majority. She asked the head of the department and he gave her the department e-mail, and agreed on the project. If anyone has books in reach, on the enviromental engineering field, it would be great if you could mail them to the department. I am also planning to collect donations to buy books of choice by the head of the department and mom, and to subscribe to magazines depending on the amount of the money I collect.

If anyone would like to participate in anyway, or have suggestions, please e-mail me.

I also wrote to Nancy, I remembered her saying that she was going to do such project and she said that you might be able to help in calingl for different universities to hold drives in their schools at the end of the year to collect books and send them here. Can anyone do that?

It is my #1 step to change.. Hope it goes well. I have already tried the mailing service in Iraq, and it works, but since we're going to subscribe through the Internet, I think I'll set a Paypal account.

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