the country or the city?

I think that the country and the city are two completely different areas. Before I moved to the United States, I lived in Baghdad, Iraq. Every 2 years or so my parents would to take me to where they grew up, a little city up north called Mousel. I loved it there, it was very quite and beautiful. People would wake up at 7 a.m. and go to work which was basically faming. My grandparent’s house was one of the biggest houses there. It was a two story house; it had 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. 4 of their rooms looked over a huge land that they owned. Everything was so green especially in the summer. The air was very fresh because there were no factories and barely any cars. In Mousel Houses were actually very close to each other and so were the people. People used to gather in a different house everyday and just talk, play cards and have dinner together. Everybody had a phone but they never really used it because everything was so close. Everybody knew each other. They knew who lived in each house and who owned each land. It was like one big family (this is why Chaldeans are all somehow related). Baghdad and Mousel are very different. Baghdad is just like a city here and Mousel is like the country. I currently live in West Bloomfield (just moved from Troy) the city is a much louder place than the country. Also the air is more polluted. Troy and West Bloomfield are very crowded areas. It takes me about an hour to get to school in the morning because of traffic (it takes about 15 minutes without traffic).

I also think that the people’s attitudes are very different if they live in the country. In Mousel, people were usually very calm and did not get upset very easily. On the other hand in the city there is a lot of road rage, for example, and it is scary. I think that the environment affects the people very much; it could be the weather, the area, or the people that are around you. Even though I really liked Mousel I don’t think I would ever want to live there. The country is a place you go to visit and relax for maybe a week but that is about it. Even thought the country might have a fresher air and is less crowded, I can not imagine living in it forever. The city is where I belong

R.M.