Things I noticed

Well, I was very busy the last couple of days, nothing so important but I don't know how time had passed. I went to an Internet café and checked some web sites that some of you has suggested to me. Anyway most of them were offering free programs that help in designing. Thank you for telling me about them, but I don' think this is what I wanted. I have no problem in using Photoshop, Flash and CorelDraw as well (because in Iraq we can get the above three programs in about $1 so no need for free software!) but now I'm looking for a program instead of FrontPage. Could anyone of you help me if he/she knows a different program. I hate using front page, I don't know why. My husband who is a computer engineer suggested that I should try to learn programming with HTML. This step, I think is too much for me because I'm not an expert with computers and I'm not a programmer so I did not decided what I should do. The last work I had was for FREE. I made a web design to a company and they liked it and asked for more and I made them about eight different designs. But the circumstances we have, I think made them leave Iraq so there were no need to my designs. BAD LUCK to me.

I was wondering how Can I find someone and offer him cheap design as you suggested. I like the idea very much and I don't mind at all but the ones in the internet already had one. If any one from you know any charity organization, I will be happy to help in designing their we site. Thank you again I think I'm asking too much from you.

Some of the comments I read wese wondering what is happing to my dream to be a surgeon, well it had vanished. The terrible system we had prevents us from studying what we wanted. We have what we call an evening study but this is only for some branches in engineer, science, and Art branches as well. But there is no medical study in these kinds of studies. Not all the people could enter these collages and they ask also for the marks you had last exam in high school but the good thing is that they take less averages than what the government accepts in return for not very expensive charges. We don't have any good private collages; they are very few and only contains science and Art collages, no medical or engineering study.

In the past regime, Saddam made a terrible damage to the educational system, I don't think you have heard about it before in any other country. Saddam offered marks to the children of his followers and to those who are senior party members, so if you were one of his followers (who are many) your child will benefit form this. And he will have 5 degrees above the average he will get in the final exam of high school. This was a disaster to many of cleaver students because those raises increase the average rate to enter any collage. Do you believe (I think) two years ago enterring a medical school needed an average mark reached up to 110%, and of course you can't have 110 from 100 anyway. The final exam contains eight lessons which are Islamic education for (Muslims), Arabic and English language, chemistry, physics, biology and mathematics. This exam determine the future of your life, and that's why many fathers were getting close to Saddam and his followers. One of the years the first ranking student in all Iraqi high schools was unable to enter medical school because he had no bonus marks, so the minister of education made him a special offer and sent him to medical school.

In my year at high school there was a girl with me in my school who got about 80% in that exam, but her father was from Saddam followers so her mark reached up to 105% and she enterred medical school and I didn't (while I had 91.5%). This bad system we had made any one with high marks which enable him to enter medical school submits for medical regardless of what he likes or hates. The second choice is always engineering collage which comes in the second level. If not, he will enter a science collage instead and so on. That's why we have a lot of good doctors but it becomes hard to find someone good in engineer and it gets worse for other fields.

We need to have good private universities in this case some people will be able to study the things they like. For me I don't know if I will be able to have my dream come true before it will be too late. By the way I'm fond of reading medical books and I have a good knowledge in many medical fields.

Many things are needed to be changed here from the roots, and this needs a lot of hard work by Iraqis and non Iraqis as well to help us to open our minds that have been in caves for many years and try to raise the new Iraq and make it able to reach other countries in many fields. But I still think if the situation in Iraq will continue to be like this we will return back to dark ages and we will look with agony for the old system we had.

I will write about the law system we used to have before in a next article.