HW 32: School Supplies

While reading through Riverbend's posts in the book Baghdad Burning, she talks about going with her cousin, his wife named S, and E to go shop for school supplies for her cousins two younger daughters. The girls used to be able to go to pick out their own school supplies, but since the conditions have drastically changed in Iraq S does not feel that it would be safe for them to go along with her. Riverbend describes the stores that line the streets of Iraq and informs us that there are no malls, just stores that have a variety of things in them. The stationery shop is where they went to get the girls school supplies. It took them a while to decide what the girls would want according to their age, one was ten and the other was seven. After finally reaching a decision on the various supplies, they left the store and returned back home to see the girls. Shopping for school supplies has seemed to change drastically since the war has broken out in Iraq, and it's too bad that the children now have to be guarded at schools and bring their own chairs. Hopefully soon the life in Iraq will go back to being the way it was before the war occurred.