HW 32: School Supplies

After reading through Riverbend's posts in the book Baghdad Burning, I stumbled across where she talks about going with her cousin, his wife S, and E to go shop for school supplies for her cousins daughters. In the past it wouldn’t have been a problem for the younger girls to go and get their own school supplies however, with the conditions today in Iraq, S feels that it is unsafe to send her daughters by themselves. Riverbend tells us about the stores in Iraq while explaining that there are no malls there, just stores. The group of them went to the stationary store in order to get the supplies for the girls. The group took quite some time picking out supplies to abide with the ages of the girls and once purchased they group returned home to the girls. This post was heartbreaking for me. I cannot imagine not being able to send a 10 year old right down the street to go get school supplies. It upsets me to see how much the world has changed and how unsafe of an area Iraq has become.