From a "Free" Country to a Free Country...

"It’s been eight months since the last time I came to the United States. Time passed so quickly in Baghdad despite the daily ordeal and struggle to live and work in a country falling apart day after day.

In Baghdad, I worked day and night to save for my upcoming education. As may some of you know that I am going to study the M.A. in Writing Studies. In the dairy I wrote last winter, I mentioned that I visited one of the universities in Philadelphia and met with the director of admissions who strongly encouraged me to apply for the graduate studies and that’s what I did."
Treasure of Baghdad

You know one part of this post made me laugh, the part were he goes downtown to see the city hall. I had to laugh thinking what might have happened if some right wing nutjob had seen a middle easterner "casing" possibly even "taking pictures" of the city hall.