We Iranians!

Today morning I saw one of the secretary ladies, who work at the administration office of master studies, while making tea in the kitchen. She asked me whether I know one of Iranian students who recently started studying master. I know him but not better than her. Apparently this new student behaves a bit strange. Once he went to her office and excused for some money (some kind of cadge)!! Once again he impolitely spoke to a professor who is the director of the institute and also master study. He is a respectful professor here.
I really felt sorry. Because the way of this secretary's talking was somehow like, this sort of behavior might be common in Iran but it is not acceptable here and so on.. .Just imagine on Monday, early morning facing such a story. Monday morning itself is weariful enough with group meeting. Now I was trying to explain and justify...I would mention this lady is really nice and kind and I like her.
In fact once I received an email from this Iranian guy when he was still in Iran. He wanted to know more about studying in our field and asked some questions which are quite normal to me. I receive these E- mails most of the time. The way of his speaking was a bit strange for me. I tried to answer his first and second E-mail then I preferred ignoring his E-mails. When he came here, he found my office and came to me to talk about finding job and apartment in the city although I couldn't help him at all. Finding part time job beside studying is almost impossible here and the rents are really expensive.
My impression was, he lives in his own world and I didn't like it. He was kind of exaggerating and I couldn't believe him so much. To make a long story short, since the faculty more or less faced some other similar stories before; they have made a decision not to accept any applicants from Iran anymore which is really disappointing. One comes here and does whatever he wants and as a consequence those ones who really want to study cannot come here anymore and get deprived.
That's why always I say we should behave carefully here. Because in Europe especially this country there is not many Iranians and they don't know our country well. They mix us up with Arabic culture or even worse with Taliban and Afghanistan. For instance I was asked few times that how many wives my father has!¨!

I know an Iranian who is used to asking: how old are you?!! as soon as he starts to talk to someone. Once I tried to make him understand very indirectly that he should not ask this question immediately, at least in front of those people whom he doesn't still know well but it seems didn't affect on him :-) Come on! Even in Iran asking people their age is not so courteous, especially when you are not that close with.
I believe that if someone decides to live in a foreign country because of any reason, has to respect to the cultures, traditions and rules of the country. I know at some point it gets really difficult. If you can't do it or don't like it or whatever else, you should not migrate. That's it. I don’t absolutely mean the west culture is perfect and better than ours. I mean just some sort of integrating and respecting.

in Coffee Break

Swiss colleague: I guess you don't need to have weather forecast in UK, since it is gonna be rainy anyway.

British Colleague: No, of course we do need to know in advance which type of rain.

Me: Thank God I haven't suddenly decided to go there for living although here is not so much better.

a New Post

This blog tends to slow down a lot. But I try not to let it get closed. The highlight of the last month in terms of my private life, was my birthday. Thank god I enjoyed my birthday a lot this year :-) much more than ever. I made decision to go out for having dinner with our friends and colleagues. I wanted to try a new restaurant where would be definitely good enough and worthy to go for a birthday event. A colleague of mine recommended a Mongolian restaurant which was really good choice. Every body liked the food and also their service. The restaurant had a surprise for me which was funny. Usually I avoid to have very strange foods in any name. Actually some types of food are not adapted to my taste so much. But this time I loved the dish. Anyway to make a long story short, we spend 5 hours there, we didn't realize, time was so quick. Then we went to an old fashion bar in downtown where also was nice. I haven't been there before. I got some sort of surprise present which I didn't expect it at all. A friend of ours gave us an entrance ticket of Hammam, where you can have a lot of fun there. We haven't yet found spare time to go there though. But it is in our schedule :-). I was told, it's worth to try it at least once.

The project which I am working on, is going forward although it is not so straightforward. Sometimes I face some sort of problem which seems impossible to be solved but after many times trying and working, I can eventually make it work which is really enjoyable at the end.

The weather is getting chilly here, today morning temperature was 4 already. Two weeks ago the temperature went down until -1 degree. It was unbelievable in October such cold weather. We started looking for a warm place to spend our Christmas holiday there.

I always say that I am not politician and don't talk about it so much but this doesn't mean that I don't care about it.
I gave this introduction to talk about the new economics satiation and inflation in Iran with stopping subvention. In the most of the countries all over the world, the governments pay subvention and support their farmer. I am really worried about this new circumstance although I am not there. This unclear situation affects our lives directly or indirectly either we live there or we don't. Whenever I go back home, become surprise with those crazy prices. If you consider the level of salary in Iran and here, then compare the prices, at the end you end up with more expensive life in Iran rather than here.
As usual this bad economy and unbelievable inflation has nothing to do with wealthy families. They might even get richer and take some advantages out of it.who knows!! But those categories of people who don't earn enough get hurt and face problems. Again who cares?!!
I don't really know what it's going on in our politicians brains nowadays and why they make every thing worse and worse. Every morning they wake up with a new decision but I wonder whether they are aware of what the difference is between a good and creative decision and useless one? Or are they aware of what they are doing with people and the country itself. Maybe they know it well and they behave like this in purpose.