Our students celebrated today (6 May) their graduation day. They studied two years and now can get diploma in library and information science. Now they will go to training for two months in the summer.
Usually students choose the name of this graduating day. This year for fun they chose to name ?graduate and sit at home,? so no work for them. It is true, there are few jobs for these graduates and it will be hard for them to find work. The students are playful and joking and choose funny names for each other on this day. For taller student they choose habeib, he is always responsible for hanging things in our department. The chose Zozo for Zahrah, and Barbie foe Neda, and no one is prettier than Lubna.
It was so nice a day and I am happy to see my students happy. The guys and gals were holding flowers and walking about campus singing and taking pictures. How wonderful it is also to see that our superior students will continue their studies at al-Mustansiriyah University to get a BA degree.
Let them be happy in this place that is full of danger, and we hope for them a good future as librarians, and also hope they can get their aims and start a new way in life. I will always be proud of them.
From Thana, a participant in the Simmons GSLIS Middle East training programs
