Bird flu and classes:

Bird flu and classes:

Today Thursday , is the hardest day of the week for me, as I have classes which are split into morning ,afternoon and plus the last 2 hours English corner in the evening that I am sharing it with Wijb.
Despite that Things are going nice and smoothly. It has been already couple of days we
see polices standing in front gate of university and our campus building and check everybody’s temperature .I was wondering something is wrong. Today I heard that one student has got the bird flu!

Well, that is not very good news though. Although we know they have treatment for it and it is not a fetal sickness, but getting it is not good at all.

Well, from now on , we should live in panic and be more careful ,by washing our hands more often and sterilize things we get and use. It is easy to say and hard to handle , cause we are teachers and dealing with students and is unavoidable not to be so close to them.
I still remember my school time back home. Sometimes I still have night mares about it. It was part of my life and so many others which was tough , harsh and sometimes gloomy and grim. In fact few year of my school time was great and couple of years hard, as we had sever examination time ,had to study hard in Math major and get ready for entrance exam at university.



Anyhow ,nowadays we I go back and remember those time I am happy I have done theses things which has made me to be here and stand in this position in another country. If I was not studios and hardworking, not had enough stamina I was not here, I was not able to pass the bridges and stand up here and be proud of my self of knowing 2 other languages and even teach them, do my art even now a days not professionally and have found a good partner casue oftravelling and expanding experiences in my life.

My condition and memories:

Tuesday September 15,
My condition and memories:


Well today was my day off. I don’t feel very well. It has been almost week that we are having crappy weather and this is a flu season. I and Wijb both are woozy and lousy. I have tried to keep home warm and use more fruits and vegetables and take hot showers and do some exercise. Last night was one of those nights we slept just few hours and I can’t make a good nursing for Wijb.
Anyhow, I think his germs are inside me. I have to fight with this sickness and be strong as I hate catching cold, especially I have to work and the next 2 days I am having tough hours teaching.

Today was mild in the early morning and we decided to play tennis. Our tennis has improved grudgingly and we both enjoyed a lot.

I am missing some warm borsch, thick soups. We both know in china is impossible to order this kind of soup.
Chinese soups no offence resembles hot boiled watery stuff with some vegetables floating and swimming on it.

I still have the taste of nice corn, chicken and beef soup, which my mum used to make in cold winters, back home. Recently I missing home a lot and last night part of my sleeping time passed with weird dreams about my past life in Iran .It has been long time and unfortunately I couldn’t have been home. Few days ago, I confess to my mum how much I miss her and home made cakes and food and chats and I am so regretful, that I couldn’t go back home.

I voluntarily scarified it for Wijb because I though he missed me and the time am not safe, especially for him due to Iran condition after June election poll. Moreover we would miss being in such a nice an apartment which now we are, as moving time was in last week of August. We had good time back to Wijb’ home and it was part of our summer plan though.

Anyhow during 2009 so many things has changed in my life, I met Wijb, we started relation ship and we moved from a city to another, we have been offered nice, high respective job at university and we got engaged. I have made 6 trips in china and to Europe as well. In fact sort out our documents for marriage plus tension sand stress afterward starts learning Dutch and some other plans. Just bad timing to go back home which I need making it sometime soon and I hope so.

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Showery, rainy days and my students:

Showery, rainy days and my students:

Today I have had officially my second week of teaching.

I really felt good about it. I am kind of used to teaching here and the ambience of university is quite nice and impressive to me.

My students are majorities engineering students, but today I had some art ones. They are studying landscape design.

The matter of fact is, students’ progress has been less spectacular but equally impressive.

A lot of art students don’t pay attention that much to the languages, I do know the reason they talk with their brushes and their art. They are proud of their ability to create things and that make them to be one step behind other ordinary classmates in other majors.

I do explain to them as an artist and English teacher, how much theses 2 are connected, helping each other to make connection to the society which we live in.

I do understand them part of teaching pass with my Chinese and translate them into English, which impressed the students and as a result get them to work.

My teaching method is use the students to be each other’s teacher and I monitor them and give them score (this is just for fun) but they learn better, cause they need to concentrate and it build their self confidence and I tell them the point and reason in the end so therefore, they all felt positive at the end of the first week. Personally, I am so happy of my try and creation things in classes.

Most of them are so impressed with my English, not just want to boost me up and flattering things, but I tell them even with wrong education system they are able to build up their languages skills and what they basically need to do.

I assume got the teaching’s instinct from my parents, could be gene in my body. Anyhow today I had my new colleagues around and they were asking me to give some suggestion for their study, in mater of how to handle it in a better way.

Rainy days

September 17th, 2009:
Rainy days”

Some people say rainy days are gloomy days. When it gets dark and moldy, so many creep inside their houses.
Me and Wijb both like rain and I have enjoyed rain enough for almost one month in middle of summer in Holland though.
Fair enough, but things get a bit harder to get and buy, as we are so lucky and prepared and planed for everything.

We just got out for eating and back home for the rest of the days. I am quite busy with reading and studying 2 other languages and my violin is my best friend after Wijb in the time of loneliness and gives me spiritual great motivation.
For the past 2 days was raining continuously and I and Wijbren were totally busy like beavers inside the home and even we didn’t care and it didn’t bother us either.

As I have been in a raining country (China) for over 5 years, so that I am quite used to this weather for at least 6 months of the year.

Especially, on the east coast when it gets so much rain for half of the year.

But actually, we still have some hopes to have some snow in this part which is North West of China and surrounded by mountains.