Manolya Dormitory, Photos Speak the Shameful Truth

by Mahdi Abdullah Murad - Student Eye 

The daily problems AUI-S students face at Manolya dormitory, is only a demonstration of the unplanned, unprepared and negligent policy making at the American University of Iraq-Sulaimani. 

We tried not to show these images online, because there was still a hope to change the hurting scenes. But now, and after weeks of suffer and passion, We know no other way but this one to tell the story of a shame.In this report, I will not be saying very much. The pictures will speak for themselves. However, some of the pictures are more tragic than what they seem, so we have said a few words about them. We hope these images will move the administration a little bit towards an evaluation of the student life at the dorms. 

This is bathroom and restroom. When you are here, you should know that there are five other people waiting for the same opportunity out there. So, you really don't get what you want. What you do is your rush with everything. Sometimes, you are taking a shower and your friend is shortened. One of you has to suffer eventually!



This is the boiler! but you never know when it becomes cold, this is of course if it got hot. 

When there is no place to put your clothes, TVs, bags, and plates, you put them on your bed. That is the creative thinking AUI-S taught us.



 

A cooker and a washing machine alongside each other like twin sisters. Sometimes the smell of friend egg and the tide mix. You should be here to see how it feels. However, the university is not ashamed to ask for $100 fee and $25 late fee for living in a dorm like this.

 

What you see here are carpets, that is right. But they are not only carpets, they are walls a t the same time. Walls made out of carpet, cloth, beds and cartoons. We needed to have them to give a sense of room to our room. Whoever comes here, including the delegation with Miss Daloye, said "Oh". Yes, Oh!!

 

You see this, it is 10% of the second floor produced rubbish. There is nothing to put it in. However, the Hotel manageer loves to give advices to college students. He always tells them, "Why don't you clean yourselves? Shame on you, you are called college students."

It is considered a taboo to open any of these curtains. The owner of the hotel will come upstairs and shower the students with his nice words. The shoes you see in front of the curtain are there because there is no other place to put them in. Six college students with a small place for shoes tend to do things that can be considered unlawful by the hotel manager.

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A student living in front of the main gate of his hall. He is directly there. He will have a chance to greet anyone who passes by there. He hears every noise, smells every odor of the other kitchens. He also studies there. So Eat, Pray and Love on the same bed.