Hello everyone!
This morning I was woken up TWICE before my alarm by one of my guys yelling at his computer because he was outbid by $1 on EBay! Go figure! Anyways, I appreciate all the letters and stuff from people! I'm a little excited this morning. If you couldn't tell by all the exclamation points so far! 'Why' Your asking? Well, I rediscovered ChristianRock.net! It is a Christian Rock radio station that is online! So now, since there is no REAL radio over here that plays Christian music, I can get my fill of my style of Christian music whenever I'm in my room!
Well, some of you might already know this, most of you might not. I've had some interaction with the Iraqi kids. Which means that I have been 'driving around'. But, I'm having a hard time dealing with the kids. They are extremely selfish and deceiving in nature. I can't even begin to explain how many children I told that 'no, you can't have my pen, I need that.', and I told each kid that at least 10 times in a row! The only reason they stopped asking for my pen was either they started asking for something else, or I walked to an area where they were not allowed to go, or got back in the vehicle! Even if I got in the vehicle, they would chase after them like it is some sort of parade. We haven't been told we CAN'T give these kids anything, but you really can't because you would just get mobbed! It is also very hard to figure out how to deal with them the way that Jesus would deal with them, especially since these kids are not my mission, and I'm not there to teach them how to be respectful and give them something without worrying about them getting beaten up by the bigger kids who will then steal it from them. So yeah, that is the newest difficulties presenting themselves.
Otherwise everything is going pretty well. Today is my last day off for... almost 2 weeks? Yeah, kinda bites, but I won't need to work 12 hour days! At least for a little while. It has been getting pretty cold here; lower 60's! I know it is nowhere NEAR how cold it has been in Minnesota (or Iowa), I mean, lower 60's might even be a warm day for you peeps! But my mom told me that the weather thingy she looked at said that Baghdad would only get in the 80's for 3 days! Yikes! Winter is coming! HA! I never though that I would say that about 80 degrees, or even 60 degrees. But I guess when your body is acclimated to a different climate, weird things happen...
Well, I hope everyone stays warm!
Brandon
20 October 2007
07 October 2007
07 Oct 07
Hello everyone, I want to first start off by saying thank you for all the emails that I have been getting! It is really nice to hear from people, a real morale booster, even if I haven't been able to email back. For that I would like to apologize, however, there really isn't much I can do about that one as most of my time is spent either working where I can't use my computer, or sleeping.
Well, today is the 3rd day in a row where we have had a slight drizzle and overcast cloud cover for most/ part of the day! The drizzle isn't anything like a Minnesota drizzle, where everything gets a little wet, this drizzle is evaporated before you could grab your camera and take a picture of it! The cloud cover is really nice. It keeps the morning/ afternoon temperatures down into the upper 90's, which make for some really nice relaxing evenings when I start work! Other than these last 3 days, the last time I saw a cloud was in Mississippi! Soon the temperatures will drop to, well, cold. Last night was supposed to get around 65 or so, but with the asphalt that I work on, it didn't drop below 74... roughly. My ears still got a slight chill to them, but overall I was good.
Last night I saw 2 baby scorpions! One was black, which I think are king scorpions, and really little, we first mistook it for a really large ant! Which they have plenty of around here. It looked like it had gotten into a fight because it's stinger tail thingy wasn't working properly, and one of the pinchers was not working. The second scorpion was kind of a pail red-ish tan color. It was really cool watching it walk along with it's tail in the air. I poked at the thing with my knife, and it would spread out his pinchers like he was going to bear hug someone, and he arched his tail as high into the air as possible, it was pretty cool!
Other than those 2 things, there isn't much going on. Pretty much just doing the same job, day in and day out, kinda like work back at home. Actually, I'm doing roughly the same thing here as I was when I worked security; check ID badges to ensure that personnel entering our facility are authorized to be there, and if they are not, that they have a legitimate point of contact so they can get on, otherwise they are not allowed on. Just, for work, you would substitute the word 'on' for 'in'! It makes me kind of laugh thinking about it... but then my laugh trails off into a groan. Oh well, I am safe, have a roof over my head, and contact with my family, so everything is good. Right? Right!
Well, I'm off to sleep now. It's about 0638 back in Minnesota when I posted this, but it is really 1438 for me! I get to wake up in 5 hours, yay!
Brandon
Well, today is the 3rd day in a row where we have had a slight drizzle and overcast cloud cover for most/ part of the day! The drizzle isn't anything like a Minnesota drizzle, where everything gets a little wet, this drizzle is evaporated before you could grab your camera and take a picture of it! The cloud cover is really nice. It keeps the morning/ afternoon temperatures down into the upper 90's, which make for some really nice relaxing evenings when I start work! Other than these last 3 days, the last time I saw a cloud was in Mississippi! Soon the temperatures will drop to, well, cold. Last night was supposed to get around 65 or so, but with the asphalt that I work on, it didn't drop below 74... roughly. My ears still got a slight chill to them, but overall I was good.
Last night I saw 2 baby scorpions! One was black, which I think are king scorpions, and really little, we first mistook it for a really large ant! Which they have plenty of around here. It looked like it had gotten into a fight because it's stinger tail thingy wasn't working properly, and one of the pinchers was not working. The second scorpion was kind of a pail red-ish tan color. It was really cool watching it walk along with it's tail in the air. I poked at the thing with my knife, and it would spread out his pinchers like he was going to bear hug someone, and he arched his tail as high into the air as possible, it was pretty cool!
Other than those 2 things, there isn't much going on. Pretty much just doing the same job, day in and day out, kinda like work back at home. Actually, I'm doing roughly the same thing here as I was when I worked security; check ID badges to ensure that personnel entering our facility are authorized to be there, and if they are not, that they have a legitimate point of contact so they can get on, otherwise they are not allowed on. Just, for work, you would substitute the word 'on' for 'in'! It makes me kind of laugh thinking about it... but then my laugh trails off into a groan. Oh well, I am safe, have a roof over my head, and contact with my family, so everything is good. Right? Right!
Well, I'm off to sleep now. It's about 0638 back in Minnesota when I posted this, but it is really 1438 for me! I get to wake up in 5 hours, yay!
Brandon
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