Friday, October 30, 2015

About the girl from Iraq



Riverbend’s blog certainly provided a different outlook on the lifestyles of the Iraqi people, first off.  I suppose it really does make you feel privileged, the fact that we have all these conveniences, and many of them live without them, yet order to maintain their sanity.  As far as the war goes, it was when she said “Waking up anywhere in Iraq these days is a trial. It happens in one of two ways: either slowly, or with a jolt.” That I noticed that the war in Iraq might be as bad as people make it out to be!  Not that I was thinking about it otherwise, I just always hold assumptions that people draw things out more dramatically than they actually are, but hey…  you know what they say about assumptions right?  Anyways, I guess I also got a good outlook on how war changes lifestyle in Iraq from the time my father went overseas for military purposes.  He would send us Skype calls every night to tell us about it and how crazy things are constantly happening, like how people continue to shoot grenades from grenade launchers at the embassy’s walls on a regular basis.  But back to Riverbend.  I guess one of the biggest things that surprised me about her blog was the first few posts on her blog how she started off complaining, and as the days went by, more and more catastrophes began happening, such as the ten-year-old boy being killed and the tower exploding the next day.  It really goes to show how serious the war was at this time and the actual threat it posed to anybody getting involved in or around it.  Anyways, that’s pretty much all I have to say about this blog, I really liked reading it, the Mannerisms in her speech made it feel like I was actually listening to her talk to me, it’s nice to get to read something like this every once in a while, I dunno.  What are you guys’ thoughts?

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