Hi, it’s me again ! ;-)... I thought I’d share with all of you guys some aspects of our ordinary daily Baghdadi life, how we actually live, or more accurately how we struggle to live... It’s Augest, and it’s extremely hot down here in Baghdad, the temperature does reach fifty degrees sometimes... Where I live in Baghdad, our government gives us “national” electricity from two to four hours maximally per day... But we also buy electricity from the “generator’s man”, and the “generator’s man” is a guy who usually lives close to our house, he owns a private generator, and we pay him seventy US dollars per month inorder to get nine hours electricity per day... So we have from eleven to thirteen hours per day free of electricity, in this extremely hot summer !! As for the water supplies, water never reaches the tap in our house without using electric pumps that by the power of “national” electricity only, pull out water from the main water pipes into our tap... We usually store that water in a huge tank located at the roof of our house so that we can use it when the “national” electricity goes off, because when there’s no “national” electricity, we obviosly can’t use the electric pumps to get water out of the main water pipes ! Unfortunately because the tank is located at the roof of our house, it gets pretty much heated by the sun rays during the day, so the water stored in it gets pretty much heated as well, which all makes it quite difficult to use that water for washing and taking a bath when “national” electricity isn’t there... More to come later....With my love... Yours forever, Lubna...