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Friday, June 30, 2006
It's been 3 days since I finished my exams, but I haven't found the chance to write somehow. My sister is staying at our house and the babies are making me nuts; I can not stand the sight of Aya standing by Ayman and trying to stretch his leg, or patting him violently, yet the sight of her kissing him is amusing, but you never know when the next violent move will be. Their mom however is tired all the time and is either feeding Ayman, or sleeping.. The house has turned to a mess in those 3 days.
Ayman is so peaceful and small, barely as big as Aya was when she was a month younger than him. Aya has turned to a violent kid and I, having just come out of my silent room to the noisy world, can not control my anger and am continuously finding myself shouting at Aya.
The exams, by the way, were mostly easy. I didn't do well on Religion, but I think I did well on the others. Rumors say that the exam questions were being sold the night of the exams, and these are not just any rumors, everyone is talking about them. This might mean that we will have to do some of the exams again, which I'm sure will make me crazy and destroy all the vacation plans.
During the exams, some of our relatives had very holywood-like adventures.
Sleeping, if nightmare-less, is a very good way to escape the harsh reality of living in Iraq. Yet imagine sleeping in your bed when parts of the ceiling above fall on you.. This is what happened to my uncle when the neighborhood was attacked with mortars! My uncle sent us an SMS saying that "A mortar exploded on our roof, financial losses only, thank God".
But that was nothing compared to what happened to my friend, and relative Z's house.
It was minutes after she came back home from the Arabic exam when a very loud explosion was heard, this time it was much more than financial losses, her two sisters and her dad had multiple injuries in their heads and had to be rushed to the hospital, and her grandma had some minor injuries. Some of the ceilings fell, and no window or door survived. The cars were badly damaged being closer to the exposion.
It was reported in the news that it was a car bomb, strong enough to have knocked down a wooden closet on one of the neighbors, a man in his eighties, they couldn't believe it when they found him alive.
My aunt, walking into her parent-in-law's house said she expected no one alive.. Their house is barely a house now, but they can't be more grateful to be all alive.
Only one death was reported thankfully, a female student on her way home.
This is all I managed to remember now.. I will write tomorrow when I get the chance.
Ayman is so peaceful and small, barely as big as Aya was when she was a month younger than him. Aya has turned to a violent kid and I, having just come out of my silent room to the noisy world, can not control my anger and am continuously finding myself shouting at Aya.
The exams, by the way, were mostly easy. I didn't do well on Religion, but I think I did well on the others. Rumors say that the exam questions were being sold the night of the exams, and these are not just any rumors, everyone is talking about them. This might mean that we will have to do some of the exams again, which I'm sure will make me crazy and destroy all the vacation plans.
During the exams, some of our relatives had very holywood-like adventures.
Sleeping, if nightmare-less, is a very good way to escape the harsh reality of living in Iraq. Yet imagine sleeping in your bed when parts of the ceiling above fall on you.. This is what happened to my uncle when the neighborhood was attacked with mortars! My uncle sent us an SMS saying that "A mortar exploded on our roof, financial losses only, thank God".
But that was nothing compared to what happened to my friend, and relative Z's house.
It was minutes after she came back home from the Arabic exam when a very loud explosion was heard, this time it was much more than financial losses, her two sisters and her dad had multiple injuries in their heads and had to be rushed to the hospital, and her grandma had some minor injuries. Some of the ceilings fell, and no window or door survived. The cars were badly damaged being closer to the exposion.
It was reported in the news that it was a car bomb, strong enough to have knocked down a wooden closet on one of the neighbors, a man in his eighties, they couldn't believe it when they found him alive.
My aunt, walking into her parent-in-law's house said she expected no one alive.. Their house is barely a house now, but they can't be more grateful to be all alive.
Only one death was reported thankfully, a female student on her way home.
This is all I managed to remember now.. I will write tomorrow when I get the chance.
