that's not espeak!

• Writing from Midwest in US or Tehran, No difference..
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• *I watched two films that were sad enough to make me down, but I suggest watching it especially to whom don’t live in the US: “American beauty” (1999) and “revolutionary road” (2008).
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• *In Iran women usually clean facial hair by going to a barber, who uses sewing cotton for removing hair. I did it for two American women and you can’t imagine how surprised they became!!
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• *I have just started reading English novels, the first one was “the Alchemist”, by Paulo Coelho and the other one which I am at the beginning of is “the housekeeper and the professor”, by Yoko Ogawa.
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• *One of our Iranian friends had gone to San Francisco for vacation, I asked him how there was? “ it’s really just like Tehran except it has a really good weather.” He answered.
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• *We have a really nice Iranian friend who lives in US more than 3o years. He has a teenager whose name is Ali. Whenever Ali speaks I hardly understand because he speaks really fluent and fast. Whenever I start speaking he starts correcting me: Maryam that’s not Espeak, that’s speak!!! That’s not Espend, that’s spend.
• Maryam-6^th January 2012

from this side of the world

• *I used to watch European media (TV channels) some years a go, and nowadays if I find any spare time I will watch American media. I believe TV in America is much more moral than Europe, European media show everything, but American channels seems to be family based. In a general view they look more religious and moral.
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• *when you live in your motherland, you think about people around the world, how they live, communicate, feel, love……. but after living among them, you see wow they more or less are like you, with the same feelings, lovemaking, friendship, stresses, entertainments and etc. Of course there are some real differences especially in culture and customs. But in subjects that are directly related to the human being’s nature, they are the same.
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• *I found a really likable magazine. It is “Readers Digest” I remember when I was in Iran, our teachers in Iran language Institute suggested us to read it, now I have this opportunity.
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• *Being a housewife is a really new experience for m. I never thought how many works you have to do as a housewife, I am not grumbling at all, I just want to say it is a job by itself. You have to do so many things: cooking food, making jam and cake, cleaning the house, washing the dishes, checking everything to be in the right way, ironing, sweeping and…….
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• Maryam December 14th

Documentary Films

Documentary Films’ Week

Last week, I watched some documentary films about USA, They were:

1- Wal-Mart, The high cost of low price…

It is about Wal-Mart as a retailer company, which produces goods in China because of cheap price of worker! In fact, they  exploit unfairly both Chinese workers  because they are paid low salary and suffer poor work condition and also Americans because low quality products.

2- Supersize me……..

It is about a man who wants to show the harmfull effects of eating fast-food and the low quality of Mc Donald’s. So he starts eating Mc Donalds’ food, 3 meals a day for a month. Before starting this dangerous project, he takes some medical examinations, which show his complete health. However, after 1 month, Guess what happened to him……

3-Food INC…..

It’s a film about food industry in USA, which includes Meat, Milk, Corn and Chicken. The movie concludes that the processed food, as a result of today’s food industry, is badly unhealthy, compared with the one produced by farmers.

Maryam “the Non-resident Alien”

December 7^th, 2011