This is probably a thousand time I tried to locate my house from the Google Earth. I love this piece from Google so much. But I still can’t find my house. Instead, today, I was able to locate another place that I love so much too, my University.
In fact, it was too clear that it made me cry. All the memorable places I’m never gonna forget. I saw the Humanity and Social Science building, where I used to be there a lot. I zoomed in a little more and I could see even sharper details.
The image of the parking lot in front of the department building became clearer as my memory faded in vividly.
That day I had a big fight with him at the parking lot. He was angry with me because we were late for a class. I went to the back of the car to get my shoes and I accidentally close the door too hard. It made loud noise and he thought I was letting out my anger. Only that I wasn’t.
He stormed off on me and I was really upset. I let him walk in to the building, then I took off. I found myself again at the beach. I was there alone, thinking. Until I realized I couldn’t handle it anymore, I called my friend to who drove a whole hour right away to be with me.
We hung out until she left. I went back to the beach and sit there for how long I don’t remember. I don’t know how long he was out looking for me but he rode his bike along the beach and found me finally. He got in to my car and said “You left me and I had to walk all the way to my apartment.” I looked at him and said nothing.
Half an hour of silence, he got out and left me again. It was getting dark and I made no movement. He came back again but said nothing. Somehow I gave up and leave the beach. To this point, I don’t remember how we made up. But that is one of million memories I got out of looking at the 3x4” satellite image.
I thought to myself many times that I won’t be able to step my foot into that place ever again. It will literally kill me. But here I am, all the way across the world, looking at the place like I’ve never seen it before by the help of smart set of code and a satellite.
Another thing is that I also had so much fun following the path of the Tigris River. I started of from the center of Bagdad, scrolling up and down, left and right for about half and hour along the river, wondering where it’s gonna end. I finally lost track of it at the point where it says Mamemusa Dagi. The river becomes so small that I can’t see anymore. It’s so amazing that the river actually separates into more than one line at many points. But what I found is that no matter what, the lines always emerge to create a solid blue line of the legendary Tigris again.
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