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Spiritual Trip


It's an unbelievable incident… I'm going to Mecca.

Saturday my family and I are going to perform Umrah, Inshallah.

Since it's near Ramadan, our trip is 16 days; 6 days in Medina and 10 days in Mecca. So we'll be able to fast almost 4 days of Ramadan in Mecca.

I can't believe it! It's the best present ever from God… It's too big for me!
I hope I'll get the best out of this spiritual trip.

Elma


I was taught English since I was 9 years old.

My first English teacher was a Canadian woman named Elma. She was a nice woman with two children and a Pakistani husband we called him Mr.Muzaffar.

She had been converted to Muslim. They named their son Basit, and their daughter Noora.

I remember her blond pigtail-style hair and her especial delightful perfume. Also I remember that her house was always clean and full of light.

Although their children were little yet, they'd learnt to speak in 8 various foreign languages. Mr.Muzaffar and Elma each knew some foreign languages which they had taught them to children.

She was also teaching my brother, my father and slightly my mother besides me.

They used to live in our neighborhood and when after a year we moved from there, we had to change our teacher. (I'll tell you about my second English teacher later.)

Unfortunately I don't have any photo of them except the images I have in my mind.

Giving up the job


I'm going to quit one of my jobs.

There occurred a misunderstanding and when I tried to clarify it for my manager, he didn't answer to my calls nor did he reply my messages.

He blamed me and never tried to hear me, nor did he give me an opportunity to tell him what made me that sad and mad, was not distrusting him but for the broken promises!

I was angry by the accountant who was telling me all the time "It'll be done tomorrow", "It'll be done this weekend", "It'll be done next week" and it was like this 'tomorrow' would never come!

He finally did it after two months but the point is his regularly breaking promises and not doing based on what he told me himself.

If he told me it'll be done for example after five months, I would never call him anymore, nor would I get angry. But promising to do something in a period of time and not doing it, is really unbearable to me.

I consider the accountant's behavior and the manager not answering my calls and SMSs a big disrespect which have never happened to me before in my all other jobs. I think it was not an appropriate reaction to my honesty and attentive cooperation after these years.

I prefer to give up the job I really liked, in order to keep my dignity against anything that would violate it.

counting on myself


I asked my teacher about the problem I'd written.

She told me one of the solutions is "to watch movies a lot, at least for a year. It'll help you to find out the appropriate words". And I know it's hard finding some suitable movies.
I think it's effective to write more in English too. So I'm going to update my blog every week.
One of big Problems in blogging is to find a subject to write about. Therefore I think the best subject is my own life. I mean my experiences and my memories. And maybe I update it with the photos of my albums too!

And I remember one more thing...
When I changed my English class from Qum to Shiraz, I found my classmates very dull. They all were teenagers and school girls. Very soon I found myself the best student in the new class without any competitor; although I was almost top student in my previous class in Qum as well, but I had some serious competitors.
So I was never worry about my speaking in my new class. I was so relaxed and not anxious to find appropriate words. After the second session, I found myself fluent in speaking! Although I'd asked lots of questions and was active enough during the session, I didn't make any mistakes in speaking, nor finding proper word, and the most important thing was the matter of fluency.

Yeah! That's it! Whenever I was more careful in speaking, I do not do it as well as I've expected.
So I try to count on myself and speak as much as possible in the class.
(Of course I changed my class to adult classes to keep myself not getting too lazy!)