It's been over a week since we settled in our new house so I've decided to check the city out, threw my jeans on and walked out, It's amazing how dark and muddy that city is, no street lamps only on the main roads other than that its complete scary darkness, I realised then that going around in Erbil alone was probably not a great idea, aside from the fact that people here stare and i mean STARE they make you feel like an alien and they look you right in the eye, it's very creepy but you get used to it after a while, but the worst part is the streets in Erbil are not straight they are basically circular so my advice would be do not try to be smart and take short cuts unless you know what you're doing! After a few loops around the city I started to understand the geography of the area if I take left it would take me half an hour to get to the super market while if i took right 10 minutes!!! I started making friends with grocery man and the store people, who gave a nickname "scarfy with jeans" I found out about this nickname once when mom got lost, again the roads are circular, and the guys from the supermarket told her which road I usually take back home. I remember discovering Naza mall and the shopping spree that I had there, the Bazar and being kicked out the minute Almughrib Prayers athan was heared and ofcourse Sami Abdulrahman's Park one of the most beautiful places in the city. After going around for a few days I started realising that it's not realy that bad but that doesn't mean i started to like it!!! no way, I was crying every single night and day and whenever I felt like it, very hard times but before I even noticed it was Newroz already the very beautifully celebrated holiday over here, and the day after it was off to Baghdad!!
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