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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