Dolmeh

One of the most favorite food in Iran is Dolmeh. It's mainly made of the fresh and thin leaves of grape vine.

And since it's made of fresh leaves, it's available just in about one month a year. So maybe it's the main reason of it's popularity!

The recipe is mixed of ingredients which contain half-baked rice and split pea, fried minced meat and onion, vegetables, salt and spices. Then you may put a small amount of it into scalded leaves.

A great unknown man

Today is the anniversary of Imam Khomeini, the founder of Islamic Republic of Iran. A noble man who was supporter of poor and inspired people all over the world.

He has had an outstanding childhood that we generally do not know much about it. As a child, He was being very smart and calm and loved learning new things.

He used to spend long time every day thinking and pondering. He started to read political news since a very early teenage years.

His aunt and elder brother who supported him in religious sciences and politics, showed him the way that helped him to think in a higher level than his age.

Considering his biography, I think he started his great movement just when he was a child by pondering, learning and reacting against rich land lords who used to govern people's properties at the time and were treating the poor farmers totally in a cruel manner.

He is one of my favorite heroes whom I respect and try to follow.

Happy Nowruz!

Nowruz is one of the greatest feasts in Iran. It is during the beginning of spring and the first day of spring is in fact the first day of the year in Iranian calendar.

We celebrate first 13 days of new year and pay a visit to almost whole family members, relatives & friends to congratulate new year and renew friendships.

The meetings first start with visiting elderly i.e grandparents; An effective tradition which links folks together.

The first 5 days are public holiday. For student, educational systems and most of private companies the whole 13 days are off.

One of the most amazing thing is the changes that happen in the nature within these days. When you are back to work/school after these two weeks, you can find so many changes in the nature. The lifeless trees and plants grow green and you can see buds and blooms everywhere. I love this shifting character of nature.

Vitality and vibrance are spread in both the human life and nature and you can completely feel the freshness and passion in everyone to once again start a new year.

You can read more here about Nowruz.

Iran supreme leader's Nowruz Message

Iran president's Nowruz message

Going to Be Wiser

To be kind is not enough. In order to be useful you need to be wise too.

I really don't know why I repeated the previous mistake. I should not rely on my friends. It's really comforting to have a reliable one to confabulate, but it makes you awfully weak, specially when you are enduring somehow similar pains.

Every time I rely on a friend in my problems, I become very breakable and sensitive. Whenever I do this, I break down.

I should set up my relationship with my friends. I need to make my private space much wider. Nobody won't enter in. I should manage by own.

And I know that I can. All the time that I've been alone to resolve my problem, I've handled relatively well! I've found out that I always know the best solution better than the others. But I don't know why I do not count on myself sometimes.

In some situations, I stupidly try to put my own mind down. My mind warns me that my friend's concern and sympathetic and even their offers is not true, but I don't care at all. And then my problem goes to be worse and worse, and I become weaker and weaker!

Yes! I should manage my self on my own. I can manage my emotions wisely. I would let my heart get heavy, grieve or even cry, but I won't let it control me!

It isn't the first time I'm testing myself. Every time, I count on myself and do not speak about my problem to anyone, I think far more better and get off the hook very soon!

In some issues, I'm really the only one who can help myself.

A Bud

I was little free and wondering what I can do.

It was a good idea to update my blog!

The good point to say is that today I was really talkative in my morning class.

The lesson was about inventions and I knew enough about one of these inventions: World Wide Web!

During the class I spoke a piece about Internet usage, surfing the webs, social network services specially Facebook and Friendfeed, also about the cyber army and Iranian hackers. Further about how to find subtitles of the movies in order to help the movie freaks in the class!

I found myself much better than before in speaking. But I think I'm really weak in speaking yet and I need to speak more. I still forget some words whenever I start speaking.

Fortunately I have a good relationship with my classmates and they ask me their questions as the best classmate. After all I got the best score at the midterm exam! ;)

My Teacher showed her satisfaction of my writing these way: "It was very good. Very good"!

And I know that this blog really helps me to write in correct way and learning some new words and remembering the words I've used here easily.

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The above passage was written on Monday. And yesterday, when I was chatting a friend in English, I made lots of mistakes! Somehow a disaster! :D

But actually I think It was not that bad at least for early chats.

I'm really eager to learn much faster than now. I wish I had a good partner to workout...

New Day

Guess what?!

I love the paragraphs starting with "Guess what?". It's full of energy. Isn't it?

Remember when I wrote I'm tired of doing nothing and how boring the life is and so on? It was almost a month ago. And now I don't have even time to do homework of my classes!

I think after years I finally got the job I'm really interested in. Of course I loved most of careers I've ever had, but this is an exception!

It's a job which deals with teenagers, beside the lovely and believer coworkers, lots of creativity and things to learn, with a strong cultural and educational base, and the most important part is a very skilled and experienced interior manager.

Thursday I had a difficult interview with the general manager and the interior manager who was the one recommended me to them. And yesterday I started my work.

My position is something like the expert of cultural and social affairs. It needs lots of thoughts, creativity, providence, study, search and far too energy and of course patience.

Oh! How anxious I am! What if I can't manage the tasks? What if the workspace would not be what I had thought? ...

Hey! Why am I not concerned about them not be pleased with my work? :D Good point, eh? At least I'm so confident about myself!

Anyhow for a while, I will work with the expert manager whom I'm really admiring. This is a great chance to learn many things from his experience and rich information, and to grow my moral and professional qualities.

Oh God! Help me, Please! Help me to adjust my classes, my works and my personal life and to do my best!

New Changes

There are some changes which are going to happen in my life.

Recently, I've decided to do things which fortunately God made me to find the best way to achieve them, ways that had never crossed my mind.

Of course that's what I see now, hopefully it will be all well upto end.

In Need of Change

I feel too tired of doing nothing special!

I'm so bored that I can't even prepare my dissertation.

I was thinking how much it would be excellent if I went abroad for a few months. I really need to change whole my environment.

I'm in need of visiting new people.

But it's clear that I can't…

Cracked

I'm wondering

when

I'll be

lively

and

cheery

again?

Next English Teacher

It's time to tell you about my second English teacher.

She was a Pakistani cute girl named Faezah and we were calling her Aunt; "Khale Faezeh". She was majoring in medicine and lived with her mother and brother. Her father had passed away long ago.

She was very kind and we really loved her.

We were living upstairs and to learn English we had to go downstairs to their house.

Sometimes she would get help from English-Urdu dictionary to tell us meaning of the words. Because Urdu shares some words with Persian.

We also loved her mother (we used to call her Madar) and her brother named Mr.Ziad. He got married when we were living there, while she was single yet.

Actually she was not just my English teacher, she was also my good friend. I have lots of memories with her. She taught me the musical notes. She had a spinet and she taught me a very short opus in order to help me to memorize the notes. That was it: do re mi, re mi fa, mi fa mi fa, sol sol, sol la si la.

I don't know where she is and what she is doing now. Sometimes I really miss them.