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Hey Sophie!!!


How are things with you?!

I’m having busy but good days. I had a cold which I liked! But now I’m fine.
In this month ,Ramezan, as you know, Muslims fast, to be honest, this year is the first year I understand its meaning really deeply. Everyone avoids eating, drinking, lying, and doing any sin or bad things only for God. I think nothing is as beautiful as being pure and honest for a month in a year, in a religion. It shows such a strong faith...
The word Ramezan means “Burning”. Burning the sins, and become innocent. So you throw away all the sins, and become innocent. It’s great you have this chance every year. I feel like Ramezan was in our culture, not in Islam. I do it like a tradition from my childhood, from where I am. It’s totally cool…

In school, they give us a lot of homework, what I never get used to. Though, my mom says in primary school I loved doing homework! It’s not nice to remember really… but my new school has many good teachers, students and a big great library. Although the teacher who works in the library doesn’t know much about the books, I have found any books I wanted or needed.
I’ve heard, it even has some books which are banned. I love our library!

The weather is hopelessly hot! The mornings are incredible, it’s cool and cloudy, but during the day, it’s like the summer! and the nights are cold...how's the weather there?!

Hope to hear from you soon!
All the best,

Pantea


P.S: this building is our school! =D

Fall is arriving with its usual weird magnificence, this week, here, the weather, the nature, and also the atmosphere, everywhere partly was summer, partly was fall.
And me myself, I’m partly summer, partly fall. =D

We have our first cloudy days after a while! Monday when i woke up, i saw huge grey clouds in the sky, i became so happy to see them! I miss the rain very very much. Today is sunny but i'm so cold...

My first school day is going to be on Saturday. Though, I read everywhere, that it may be Sunday because of the air pollution. Anyway… Guess what is our first subject? Mathematic! And then it’s Arabic...I’d really nag about them…

but in fact i'm very happy about Saturday!

Hope to hear from you soon,
Pantea

Hi Sophie!

How are things with you?
for me, they are okay but fast...minutes and hours fly, i start to do a thing and before i realize, it's dark outside, and i fall asleep and then the next day comes even faster...

Today was a busy full day! I was cleaning (better to say washing) my room. Washing the walls, the floor, and all the stuff. I loved it! I could feel the fragrance of fall in my room, in the sky and in myself. my family was shocked to see me doing these things after a year not cleaning my room.

what is your favourite season? i have none...i love all. i think one of the most attractive things in the nature is the seasons. they come and go, and they come again. they go again. and they repeat and still they are beautiful, they are different and they are unique. we can smell them, we can feel them and we can touch them, finally we can let them go, and the next season comes. and it's just VERY different. I adore this changing. the nature is undescribable!
what do you think about nature?
my idea is just saying nothing. words are poor to describe this magical holy gift, and i think sometimes, just looking at the sky is VERY more precious than writing deeply only using these weak words. i love trees, i love trees very much. do you?

Hope to hear from you soon
Pantea

Hi Sophie!

Happy to hear about your exam results! that's very great really, well done!

So cool you enjoyed your holiday...wow sea? I really love sea! I miss it very much. Last time we went to sea, was two years ago. My brother always liked to walk along the sea, for a very long time. I just liked to stare at it, and my cousin always searched for a ball so we can play together, like little children! we always had many balls but all of them had a hole on them! we could play for hours until the sunset, night and then the families (my uncle's) would come and we had the dinner in a restaurant nearby. we had dinners like...fish! do you like fish? I HATE fish! first it makes me feel terrible thinking about killing these poor creatures just to eat them...it's very cruel to see how they die...and they also smell! the awful thing is that, each time we (THEY) ordered fish, there was a small pool nearby and a man would go and take a fish ALIVE and just 15 minutes later, the fish was on our table! my uncle always forced us to eat garlics...it was horrible! anyway, did you take any picture of the sea? i'd love to see some...!

gee, you have rain over there? awww how beautiful! these days, i long for cold days very much, demanding rain...here we have still hot days...poorly! oh it's nice you like rain...i love rain. who doesn't?

now, i'm waiting for school! that's strange, i'm almost happy about the end of this summer. you know, i had many programs to do in this summer. there were some classes and places i liked to go...there were some things i liked to learn but my father didnt like them, it doesn't matter really, it's just as well i had so much time to think and read. now i think i'm entering a new step, a new chapter of my life, and i'm really ready! Ready to do my best. Ready to see and ready to go! yesterday i was looking at my new uniform, i love it!

you have a cold? oh it's awful! drink a lot of orange juice and rest (like moms!) although for me having cold is a funny time...

take care!

and get well soon!


Pantea


P.S: the picture didn't upload!

Hey Sophie!

What are things like?

I hope you're doing well.
Here, the weather became really better but still hot. I think this cruel heat gives me a non stop headache. And miserably, sleepless nights and days full of tiredness. I can’t find any other reasons about that. I spend the entire week home and just read. It’s enjoyable to see you have many hours just to comfort and read.

School will begin in 3 weeks for me! It gives me a hodgepodge of happy and sad thoughts. I love my new school so I feel very happy to know more about it. But school is school! It means boring classes … logical teachers…and busy days, you know!

Some days ago, my mom and I went to the movies. There was a very good movie "In the name of the father". Don't mix it up with that Gerry Conlon. this is a Persion movie directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia, i think it was the first movie by him I really really liked. We rarely go to the cinema, so It was really nice for me!

Hope to hear from you soon,

Pantea

Hi Sophie!!!

How are you???

these hours i have a very strange feeling...a very heavy one...

My math classes are over now, I’m back from home now, we had an exam this morning. I thought the exam would be harder, but it was okay! Now I have so much time to do my favourite things, of course much more time to read, to think about some things, and to deal with some things…
Before summer I wanted to do a huge researching about religions but actually I’m reading only the philosophical books by the philosophers in the last century. Now I’m reading a book by Bochenski (I love his name!), he can explain hard topics with simple words so well but I don’t agree with him really…(who cares really!)

My mom is too tidy too! Ha ha! No one in my family is messy, even my relatives are tidy! (God knows why i'm messy!) so they have to deal with it so intolerantly...!

I'm going to change my room, no one would help me but i will do it! I promised myself and i'm going to do it, i think 'my room' is a very important place, a very important role in my life! Don’t you think so? Your room is you. Your room describes you, and you describe your room. Your room is your world…and no one can understand…it’s your own room, your freedom…

japanese pop? Wow sounds amazing! i'd love to listen to some! Oh I like those german heavy metals ! the taste of this music is so strange! But sometimes I see it’s really a part of human being, maybe the weirdest and most complicated part! My brother braught a horrible metal CD from Romania, it’s really strange to call it “music”.

wow you went to Green Day concert? it's wonderful really...!

Have a great day...

hope to hear from you soon

Pantea