Let the game begin!
So here is my English weblog at last. As far as I remember it was more than a year ago that Hoder asked all Iranians who can write in English to start writing English weblogs and here I am with only a couple of months delay!! Anyhow it would be a good thing, I guess, to be writing my thoughts in English now after two years of writing them in Persian.
As for the introduction part, I'm an ordinary Iranian girl from an ordinary Iranian middle class family living in a city which is anything but ordinary! I'm nowhere near a political activist if that’s what came to your minds after seeing this AP article, and I wouldn’t wanna be one if I had a choice! These things have prices to pay and frankly speaking, I don’t think I'd ever be wealthy enough to afford this one! I mean don’t get me wrong, I do care about my country, how it's doing, I'm extremely interested in my community, its social relations and all that stuff, in case that's any consolation to those who were looking for radical opposition rhetorics over here!
As for my education and occupation, I've been abusing my knowledge of English to the fullest and have done all sorts of jobs due to my ever-changing mood and taste in everything. Holding a BA in Translation of English and an MA in Teaching English as a foreign language I have been a teacher, university tutor, translator, interpreter, online journalist and then an e-zine editor, account manager in an international advertising company, consultant in content management of some sites, and this week I'm gonna be taking part in seminars on the subject of AIDS! I despise the theory behind this saying "Rolling stone gathers no moth", I've gathered a considerable amount of moth indeed! So Don’t mind this saying as it is an outdated one, now is the age of change and I believe experiencing as many as you can is the right way to improve.
In my Persian weblog I usually write about my personal life and some notes on the social deficits of my community resulting from some traditional and cultural trends which are, in my opinion, illogical and harmful to the society as I've personally suffered because of most of them and have friends and other young people that share the same turmoil. Unfortunately although I always try my best to avoid any political argument it comes back to hunt me whatever issue I try to address! This is what we call a politicized society, and unfortunately so, we are living in one :(
Well I would be doing the same thing here I guess. I don’t know yet, let's see where it takes me.
For the time being Welcome to Pinkfloydish, the English version :)
PS My sincere thanks to all the kind people from everywhere in the world for the beautiful emails, I am overwhelmed :) I am so sorry but believe me answering them is absolutely impossible! There are just too many! I thank each and every one of you here and hope that we can all communicate as human beings all over the world in peace and understanding. Cheers :)
