First Day at The University of Baghdad College of Medicine

I arrived in Baghdad in August 1976;One day in April Hashim my husband came home at noon time.I will never forget that day.I was standing in living room and he said to me you have been accepted to medical school and I got the test results back,you are pregnant.My life in Iraq changed.For the first time since arriving ,I felt like I was a part of the country.I was soo happy. Mom sent me my clothes for school.We wore uniforms,a white shirt,grey skirt and a navy jacket.I was very sick for the first three months of my pregnancy. I craved mcdonald hamburgers..of course there was not a Mac Donald's in Iraq.One night I was crying for shrimp.it was about three am an di had to have shrimp.My poor husband found a restaurant open that had shrimp an dbrought it home to me.he made sure I ate very one of them.Although Iraq did not have a Mac Donald's they did have very delicious hamburgers.They grilled the hamburgers over charcoal and placed the meat in warm triangle shaped bread that is called in Arabi some-moon,very delicious.