A day in the life of a 14 year old Iraqi blogger.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

She's a girl who lives in Baghdad.

http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/

Friday, December 08, 2006
It couldn’t happen to you ...........

Hello , what is the meaning of " BAD DAY" ?
Yesterday " Thursday " I had a very bad day , I was in the garage , waiting for the driver , when my neighbor " H" , came to say hello , he was standing near me , and talking with my grandma, suddenly he touched his leg and said " awwwwwwwch " , my grandma thought that he had a muscle spasm , or something like that , but I realized it was more then that , he shouted "it is a bullet" .

A bullet entered his leg, he fell down on the floor , my grandma went inside the house to call his family , no one was in the street , I got panicked and started to cry and shake hysterically, I ran and brought handkerchiefs , and started to put them on his leg , he was bleeding , the driver came to drive me to school , I told him to wait , I put my bag in the car and ran back to my injured neighbor , I went to bring my mom I was out of breath , and couldn't talk , I was terrified " I was , a man , a bullet , the car , blood , neighbor , bandage , cotton, come please " I couldn't create a sentence , she didn't understand me but she came and brought medical cotton and bandage with her , she ran wearing her pajamas ! anyway she tied his leg so hard , to stop the bleeding , and I kept crying shaking and spreading so many handkerchiefs on the floor to cover the blood, I don’t know why !.

Then his wife , kids , brothers , sisters , cousins , and nephews came running toward our house , and one of his relatives took him to the hospital by his car , I went to school , and kept crying all the way long , and when I reached there , I was shaking so badly, even the teachers were worried about me , my mom called the headmistress and told her what happened , when I arrived school the headmistress asked me to sit in her room, the teachers were around me , trying to calm me down , after an hour I stopped shaking , but kept crying , I missed 2 classes and did so bad in geography exam , I wrote " the running winds" , and I did very silly mistakes ..

"R" my dearest friend came while I was in the headmistress room ,she was crying and shaking too , a mine exploded in front of their car , !!!! the car's windows were broken , then US soldiers started to shoot their car !.
Then our friend "Sh" came crying , because she heard about me and "R"
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Then our teacher Mrs. E came to the headmistress with tears in her eyes because her aunt died .
Then Mrs. S she is another teacher came and said quickly " excuse me , I have to go , 3 of my neighbors were killed "
At last Mrs. "A" came and said "did you know about the Arabic teacher , her nephew was killed" .
Suddenly the headmistress fell down , we ran to her desk to see what happened , she fainted because of all what was going on in her room ,as well as she was tired from taking care of her sick mother ,and from being awake all the night.

so many events , and so many bad news …

After I calmed down I went to the class , I was trying to understand what happened , I was hoping that it is just a nightmare , but unfortunately it was true , horrible but true , this is my life.
No one should go through that , but what can I do except praying and hoping that we will remain alive .
I've seen so many views in TV., In movies and news channels , but is different and scary too see that on real..
My life is turning from worse to worst .

And the situation here is not good , and my way to school is horrible , I feel like I travel to school everyday, it is far , and the bridges are always locked and there are mines in them , sometimes bombing cars , I spend about 40 minutes in my way to school , and an hour or more in my way to the house .

Sunshine .

I read all of the E-mails I got in the last few weeks , but I couldn't answer them because I didn't have electricity nor time , I will do that ASAP.

Note: Slightly edited by separating into paragraphs - no changes to the text.

[genieroze]

1. OMG, the kid should be grateful we are there.

:sarcasm:

[BrotherBuzz]

2. Why should we waste our beautiful minds on stuff like this?

is the :sarcasm: thingy really necessary?

[angstlessk]

3. This poor child...bet she misses Sadaam. no sarcasm smiley needed

for that assumption. I cannot go to your link...that one post was enough to make me feel sick to my stomach. These people deserve more than what boosh has done ... the reording of the economics and the stealing of the oil .. and of course the 'colateral damage' her, the other 500,000 + Iraqis and our soldiers.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. If you go back through her entries, most are just 14 yo musings.

She's a rather typical kid in most ways. Worried about her grades, her friends, holidays and such. That's the tragedy.

[angstlessk]

8. That is EXACTLY why I do not want to read her blogs...I have a grandchild

14...I want to read about her hopes and dreams knowing what I know about Iraq? And put my grandaughters face on her pain and fear? Sorry, I am very selfish..if I think there might be hope for Iraq, I might revisit...but for now. I feel too guilty to visit that childs heart.

[lpbk2713]

4. Absolutely right ..... No one should have to go through that.

It's bad enough for adults to have to go through but it's unforgiveable for kids to have to endure this kind of a life.


Meanwhile back at the White House ......

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Why are we doing this to these people?

Why did the US allow Iraq to turn into hell?

[Hippie Chic]

6. No 14 yr old girl should be thinking about bullets..

and mines on the way to school.

Someday's I'm just ashamed to be an American.