After the $400, What is Next?

by Muhammad Chawsawa

A lot of times, parties, and a number of occasions, most notably, the Ramadan Eid had elapsed, but, far away from my whole family, I have started a job in Sulaimani in the evenings. Even though I have to work at 5:00pm until 12:00am, I've taken to it like a duck to water because it is in a very salubrious part of the city.

 In fact, having taken out the entire-summer loan to pay for the AUI-S’s last tuition, I was thrilled with my forthcoming academic year. Unfortunately, AUI-S capriciously put me in agony of suspense when I got a couple of calls from some college friends that we are supposed to pay $400 for both the dorms and books.  

It was the most devastating news, and we were all bored silly by that unpredictable decision. Since no one would expect that before, we have the right to ask what the AUI-S’s next unexpected plans or decisions would be. Some of them are clear and were revealed by what the AUI-S has already done. The obligation of paying the $400 for the dorms and books is a palpable example to declare the unlawfully demanding money with menaces. 

Although it's exceedingly difficult to accurately find the right words to express this demoralizing decision, on the behalf of the most AUI-S-dorm students, I'm pleased to divulge some AUI-S surreptitious future schemes! We don’t need to have another lesson because we can plainly perceive what the AUI-S is driving at. By this strange quirk, we can be able to understand that a day will come when we will be forced to pay for the electricity.

Within this framework, we will also be obliged to pay for the water we use to take a shower, do a laundry, and even to wash our disgusting socks. To become worse, the price of the electricity and water would be expensive because WE ARE THE AUI-S STUDENTS. It's worth mentioning that the AUI-S students are the elite, specifically those who live at the dorms!!! So, if you don’t pretend that you don’t mind, no one should be extremely eager to know what is going to happen because everything is clear.

We will be charged to pay for the 100-papers we print out every month as well. We should, guys, strongly complain that this kind of decisions is useless and frustrated. It aggravates our situation, too.  If we remain as silent as the graves any more, we might also be forced to pay for the transportations, the water we drink at the university, the court, the internet, and the ink of the printers. Then who will put us out of our misery???    

*Muhammad Chawsawa is an International Studies and Political Science freshman at the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani