Hiking!

Today was wonderful day for me… I found new Muslim friends with different nationalities recently… we set a time to go hiking… I really love wild nature of Victoria…

I packed all my stuffs last night to leave home as soon as possible… we were supposed to be downtown at 8 am. It was around 8:15 that I woke up by my cell phone ring… yeah! I fell sleep… It was embarrassing specially when you wanna go out with 3 new friends 

Fortunately they were so nice and wait for me to get there…it was the first time that I went by bus by myself…

I was curious about the yellow rope in the bus ,so I pull it down and wait to get what may happened after a while the bus stopped and bus driver opened the door and looked at me…I responded to his glance by smile, just for being nice!!

He asked me: "don’t you wanna get off?"

Yay! I got it!!  You can have stop request by puling down the yellow rope!!

Anyways…we (Zeinab (from Kuwait), Fatima (from Oman) and Lina (from canda)) keep going to Thetis Lake Park…

At the gate of the park we met the old lady from India … she told us that she was familiar with this park and she could help us to find the way through the woods… I like that old lady …she was so energetic and also sportswoman…

We go through the woods… It was wonderful…both parts of nature that I love … deep forest and lake with all wild plant life…

We decided to sing a song in our native language one by one… Zainab and Fatima sang a song that Iran T.V broadcasted it several times…I can’t remember the title of the song…but it was related to prophet Mohammad… after that, lina sang an English song… I don’t have any idea about it …in this part; I was taking photo of beautiful nature…

It was my turn…. Wow! I can say that I’ve not memorized any song correctly and also completely… I searched in my mind all the song I’d heard but nothing I could find … so I started singing…”ye rooz ye agha khargooshe….” the only song that I could remember completely…. All guys liked the song rhythm … Zainab told me:” it was really  happy song, it reminds me kids’ songs”

Now, both Katies are on a trip and Clara and I are alone at home… as I told you she is so interested to know about Iran… she found the movie and planned to see it for next week…I am supposed to go with her! Movies’ name is “Persepolis” it’s about Iran… it’s a French movie and as I read a brief introduction about it…. It is about a woman who was against the regime of Iran before revolution …. I mean she was oppressed of Shah regime… and voted to Islamic Republic… and then left Iran to… I can’t remember the country where she went!! Anyways…after coming back …she found the government is totally different from her imagination… and also it’s obvious that this movie is supposed to have some scenes about Komite o begiro babaro shallagho with a tough exaggeration …I can give you more information about this movie (it’s not actual movie..I think it’s animated one) after watching it… I told Clara “I don’t like most of the movies which are mad about Iran by non-Iranian ppl”

Well I put some photos of today adventures on my facebook page… because of the large size of these photos, I know, you can’t download it easily! Fatemeh inam ax !! faghat fek konam filter shekan mikhay…albate facebook to UT filter nabood ….

By the way updating this page doesn’t mean that I took my mid-term exams

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I am so thankful of your comments... we (Nazanin kachal & I) would be so happy when we saw your comments .... all your words remind us the good days we had at university of tehran together....so... everybody ( everyone who visit this webpage) feel free to send me a comment even if it's not related to  the post....Parisa khanoom, Hora jan,Elham , joye kalle khar, zahra,abji hoochike,safa,mamad darbedar va to nazanin kachal make me so cheerful with your comments...

as I told you, nowadays I am so busy but I promise you to update this page after mid-term exams...

yesterday the other roommate arrived in Victoria... I was alone at home when she came home...as I was so curious about her nationality ,as soon as she came out her room I jumped out and said:"Hey! i'm Najmeh"....she was like:"Hello!I am Clara"...

I continued:"khoshbakhtam..." she was confused and thinking about the meaning of this strange word...

whenever I wanna talk fast in English, suddenly a persian word's poured out!then I try to mend it...

her confusion remind me the popular mistake, I always make...in such cases i start laughing out loud that's meaningless for a person whom i talk .... so I started explaining the meaning of the word for Clara...

I got that she is a Ph.D student in "international relationship" field and she is so interested in visiting Iran(Maybe because of critical position of Iran in international relationship and political problems) ...the only point that is so strange for me is:whenever someone show her tendency to come to Iran, she always ask me:"is Iran safe for me?!!!" and most of the ppl ,that I'v met ,don't have any idea about coverage(Hejab) that's mandatory in Iran...

anyway,I think American ppl(US-Canada-Mexico) are more friendly and better in social communication than European ppl...

by the way,My computer is fixed now!!probably it is useful for you to know the problem:

1. I should've updated windows every week. this updating requires acknowledgment of windows license by the website(copyright rules inja bidad mikone)

2. Norton antivirus blocked all my browsers(IE-FireFox) so I should've remove it.

I found the homeless ppl region of Victoria recently.It was not as memorable as it's counterpart in Vancouver...

nowadays, I am so busy...midterm exams will start in two weeks in addition to it researching related to my thesis's gonna be serious!!

see you! 

Dear all my friends,

I wanna consult with you to make a decision...I don't know if I continue to write my memories here or not...as it seems I couldn't express myself well in English..on the other hand I don't have enough time to learn typing in Farsi!!so we have just 3 options:

1-stop here.

2-continue in pinglish language.

3-continue in English language.

let me know your opinion about this!?

I don't know why! but every computers that i've bought up to now, would be out of order after 2 days!! now i don't have any computer at home and i am updating by using Lab computer!

last night I wanted to go to future shop, from which I've bought my laptop, in order to fix it and it was a real disaster to get there by bus....fortunatly my dear roomate, katie from Canda(as i didn't tell you I have 2 roomates with the same name:katie....one of them is from US and the other from Canda...) gave me ride to there...

both of us got on the car...katie was waiting and i couldn't get the reason of her waiting...at last she told me:don't you wanna fasten your seatbelt.... I prefer not to tell her that fastening seat belt's got mandatory in iran just recently and i adat nadaram to do so!!

so i started khalibandi and told her:"I used to driving my car in iran which will make an automatic warning ,like beep,if you don't fasten your seat belt

she asked me about driving in iran and I kam nayavordam o siad to her"as I live in Tehran I can say,tehran trafic's so heavy that it may take so long to get to your destination"

she asked me"r drivers courteous in tehran?"(i don't tell u how much it takes her to describe the meaning of couteous for me)

i couldn't tell her lie bcz of morality that is unseparatable from my characteristics so i told her"yes of course,u know, ppl in iran and specially in tahran r so kind and really nice... and also, in iran, all men really bilieve in"ladies first!"

she suprised and told me:"I wish here was so"

as it seems i'm really trying hard not to use persian words in order to improve my English so if you know the meaning of some persian words which i used and made them BOLD,plz let me know too

in the middle, she did apologize bcz she wanted to go to the faiway(Grocery Store) and asked me if I wanna buy some groceries...and i told her"as a real of fact i don't need any thing but i can give u walk!!"

in a nut shell...we went to the grocery store and finally i couldn't bring my stuff without her help

now...I met the other chinese student of my supervisor...mordam ta esmesho dorost talafoz kardam.....HIYAH...this is his name...he told me that Gulliver(my supervisor) is interested in iranian and chinese students.... and half of his students r iranian and another half:chinese...

alan HIYAH ba PANG daran chinese balghoor mikonan..really ...zabooneshoon funny e!!taze ye oosta ham daram ke chinese o majmoo E yee az asamiye chinese too esmeshe: hung-choun young

by the way ....today i saw the indian boy whom i told before.... i wanna use elvator and he came to use it too..... i stared at him as i saw a smelly cat (labo locha ro too maye haye kami ta ghesmati avizoon daravordam)... and came down by stairs! dark mane gaaaaaaaaaaav!!

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