domingo, 18 de marzo de 2012

Environment


I should look better around since I am interested in finding connections... I am seeing that at the time of changing Persian year all of the world is changing, people do its particular fiesta, it seems that the sky is blue every where :) season change form the cold sleeping to a rebirth of the earth, the plants and almost every thing even the colors are more brilliant, don't mind where on the map the Persian is living now, all Persian houses are particularly cleaned and in a special good order, the new cloths for children and for adults are bought, it's presumed that the Old should leave, the little red fishes in the vases of glass are ready on tables, the green grass of grain is grown twenty centimeters in the artistic trays or simply in the plates, the new moneys are taken from the banks to be gifted to the grandchildren on the first day and the new shining coins, the new year abundance symbol are ready on the "Haft-Sin" Table, the dried fruits and the sweets are waiting to fill the family gathering enjoyment time and right now at 23:54' in the last hours of the year and about 30 hours to the "Nowruz Tamburing" if you happen to pass in the streets of Iran you see late people, every one for its particular reason is buying lacking pieces of the big fiesta.
I wonder about the fire fiesta which I thought is some thing exclusively for the antique Persian celebration and Zarathustra philosophy of purification but right yesterday I went to Valencia to see "Las Fallas" the fire Fiesta timely close to the Persian "Wednesday Celebration" of fire, the Valencia-n guide explained that people will burn the fallas at the end of the ceremony to not permit the evil enters the new season what exactly do Persian in his Wednesday burning fire fiesta.
At the last Wednesday when we kept fire burning and we jumped out of it wishing to take away mal-fortune of the coming year we didn't know some close time they will do some similar celebration in many other parts of this small earth, even Ani. the Bosnian friend told that they do such similar fiesta of fire.
Last Wednesday I thought that I loosed this fiesta being far from Persian friends in Milan, they celebrated it as much as they could make it original at diaspora living area.
Come on! you are doing the same celebration with people of the world with ESN students and with Valencia-n traditional people and how fantastic it is to feel being the citizen of the world as you don't see yourself alone in the last hours of your calender.
Tomorrow night you keep goodbye party of  "Noche Vieja" with curious friends of every where eager to take part in an exotic celebration :)


sábado, 10 de marzo de 2012

Day of Symbolism

Thursday was the Woman Day and I noted it on the front page of Google.
The same day I read on Facebook the news about the death of "Simin Daneshvar", mother of modern Persian literature and wife of Jalal Al-e-Ahmad.
We Iranian people are fond of considering symbolic traces in life and highlighting them as they have a great energy to be spread ed out into the life air. It seems that we orientals need to be connected to such symbolic energies.
The writer of Shiraz, the city of feelings and flowers, gifted to the world her masterpiece "Savushun", at the time traduced in 17 languages, and left at woman's day after 90 years of life. 

Subjectively, it was a peaceful day; actually the characteristic of travel days, or better, life of infinitive travels; a river just content of being current no hurry to find out when the sea will show off. Actually you feel peace when you feel in travel. 
These days my wanderings in the city have the new smell of coming spring with trees blossomed in pink and white and, I have a kind of new look to the city from a new arrival in hot August 2011 with no Spanish connection to an ended-Erasmus student in sour-sweet of March 2012. 
Arrival time in August was coincided with the emotions of touristic look at the city of Alhambra and I was tasting the exotic and fabulous intercultural life of Andalusian people with Arabs and, I was confused about how to survive without knowing the Spanish language; but now I am going to try the habitant's life more deeply as I know where to walk for being among Granadines of an ordinary life; of not a curious traveler  with wide eyes but, of a got-used-to the smells and beauties. Actually these essences are included in their souls and they do not need to mention it every time or to speak about it. They are as simple as they live.
Now I am a little citizen of Granada even if it's so soon to be a Spanish. But trying to be a citizen of world and to adapt to the environment makes me to enjoy more of what I see and what I add to my big box of Goofy.
The signs that before weren't to be seen now are showing off in front of my eyes: the lawyer office at the fifth floor of a building in Gran Via; the tour program of "Camino de Santiago" for citizens in the Civic center; the working hours of bank written on the closed door; many banks; the big parking almost near to the Cathedral; the big shopping center left to be re-opened, maybe-one-day, next to the parking; the gymnasium; the beauty center in one building of principal boulevard; the big insurance company in Plaza Ayuntamineto; the rush hour of backing home in the evening and God! many things of an ordinary life that are not important to see when you are a tourist and some how you miss them as a symbol of belonging to the city...
And the most amazing fact is to find out Persian people living nearby where you have passed many times wandering and watching and, even more adventurous than that is to speak Persian with a Spanish guy who had lived for years in Iran with about six thousand kilometers distance from Granada.
Every time I believe, with more emphasis, that the world is a small town deserved to be known and to be simply enjoyed.


Language

After challenges and analysis with myself, I decided to proceed writing as it comes through the passage of life  and to share this passage with the people I meet so; let it be it be if it comes English write it and if you are deeply thinking in Italian so it means that italian is playing well its part of intercultural role and if some how it comes thinking in Spanish so express yourself and actually express this culture you got through to know and to taste. If you think that you need to write your mother tongue because you owe to make known your culture out of dust of politics affairs and to pull it out of corridor of history you do it then you will have almost the world to be your audience and may you achieve your goal of wanting the small village of world deserved to be seen to be tasted and to be preserved leaving good smell of human trace.
So the stages of travel helped me to proceed with the new approach of globalization; a sustainable life for all as much as I can take part.

lunes, 5 de marzo de 2012

Start

یا هو
... Just I want to begin ...
There are infinite things to write and there is no idea how to begin.
Persian poet, Hafez, says: " The Love seemed easy first; but they showed up the troubles"
I am a traveler; my dear professor encouraged me to open my blog and to write as much as I have to say; as much as I have to write.
Since I come from the culture of life sharing so I begin with the idea of sharing my senses; my life and the exquisite smell of my travels ...