My Favorite game is Backgammon.

 

When I was child, I liked to play  Monopoly and Backgammon.As I remember, at that time Atari was famous game for children , but I didn't like it. Unfortunately,  that was my brother's favorite game and we played that game together; we had plan for our weekend sometimes we played Monopoly or Backgammon, sometimes we played Atari. I still play Backgammon in my free time. It makes me happy :)

If you want to learn it, go to this website:
http://www.bkgm.com/rules.html

This is my last post at this semester :(

Thanks for your attention :)


I will miss U All

As I found, this story refers to the last of 14 century. The interesting thing is, when we finished this book  we criticized : " Those people had wild behavior, why they didn't understand Quasimodo couldn't hear them?" , or " Why Claudie Forolo did something wrong? He might be a holly man! ". The truth is, if we compare this story with our society, unfortunately, after 6 century we still do wrong in  many similar things.

Although this story is not my favorite type, I can't put it down until I finished it. In my opinion, Esmeralda is the symbol of kindness and love, Quasimodo is symbol of love life and Claudie Forolo is the symbol of who is  away from humanity. 

The original book, and the animation are two different things. I recommend the animation to all ages, but I think because it is not the funny or fantastic story,the book is not enough excitement for children who are under 16 years old.

I have no idea why is it still popular. Maybe, we naturally like sad story . For me,  many years ago( 12 years ago), I absorbed this book because of its writer; I had read  Les Miserable and I loved it. I think read this book once in a time is worth.

Victor Hugo quotes : " Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

I prefer to travel by car.

 

I like traveling by car. It has some advantages and some disadvantages. When I travel by car, I can stay, visit and go every where that I want; certainly do not need a specific time to arrive at the destination. You can drive and enjoy the road and the weather. Unfortunately, this is not a good way for all travel because usually the time is more important thing. Distance, which takes 2 hours by plane, by car can takes a couple of hours.

I really don't like travel by airplane, but I always have to go by plane. I have a terrible memory of the trip by plane, I do not like to ever be repeated.

 Quote :)  Music is a means of Rapid Transportation.

Welcome to Calgary!

Hey, My Friend:      Welcome To Wintry City!

   I'm so happy that you will be here until next month. Fortunately,  when you will arrived weather will be more gentle and warmer than now. Because, you want to live here for couple of years I have some advise for you to know something about your new city.

First, Calgary has 9months winter, 3weeks summer and the rest of that like spring and fall ( but not the same that you tried  it before). I know this isn't pleasant news, but it's a truth. Don't bring any warm overcoats, it's better you buy it from here.These ones have some material that keep body's heat in them selves.

Second, since you want to study in the U of C; it's better you live in campus or near university in north west of Calgary. This city has long time traffics so you can save your time. There are good transportation from university to downtown such as train and bus; by the way Calgary's people called their train " C train. " I don't recommend you to buy a car at the beginning. Driving on frozen roads, imagine! You can rent a car for a few weeks. Don't forget to translate your driving license; you must bring it with the original one.

At the end, I'm so excited to see you here. There are many different restaurants and a few gorgeous malls which are waiting for us ;) Also,there are many places for skiing or other winter's sport. I can't permit the nature of Calgary, lakes, mountains and its sky.   

Don't worry about the cold weather;  in this city you believe CHINOOK even more than the god! 

Don't ask me about it, you will feel it :)

Crime

Although most of these days we hear about crimes of this city in the radio news, Calgary is a safe city. Every morning I listen to CBC news, ( it's better to say I wake up by CBC news! ) they talk about crime such as stealing, killing and I rarely hear about kidnapping. As they say, the places of crimes are usually in the down town and in specific times like mid nights or earliest time of mornings.

Calgary is safer than the city I grow up there. My city is a very crowded city. Unfortunately, there's a big social and economic gap between the rich and the poor; therefore, the number of crimes are more than here.

This is obvious that no one wants to be a victim because of that every one learns how to protect itself from crimes, by reading the police's information or by doing some defensive tasks.
Some people choose the place of home very carefully, Others don't stay out alone until midnight.
I always do all of them, but I believe  nothing is predictable.

Horse Riding in Calgary's Nature

My favorite animal is horse especially  wild dark brown type. As I remember,  I wanted to live in a place where is  full of horses but not in the woods or countries and now I live in a city that has several lands of horse breeding. Every time you can go there and take an appointment for each day that you want and then start to learning how to riding the horse or start your horse riding. One thing that I like to do is horse riding in  the nature like hillsides and  besides of lakes.I really like  undisturbed nature of Calgary.
Hiking in mountains or around the lakes and horse riding will be my best recreations in this city in the summer.

If I Win 10 Million $$$ ...

There are lots of work that I want to do, but first of all I will pay for two Canadian passports for my parents because I want they travel around the world with no wasting time in the lines of some embassies.
Next, I will start to buy houses in some cities around the world, for examples in Kish Island of Iran, Bern of Swiss, Nice of France and Calgary (Spring Vally ).
Then, I will  go to Las Vegas and I will share some of my money with the owner of one hotel and we will contract to each other.
The last but not the least, I want to build a house for kids who have no family. In that place they learn how to live like a family, they grow up there and they learn majors of  artistic,  athletic and scientific. They learn how to work hard like a real world and how to love and help others. After that they apply for university or business or athletic university.

These are my dreams :)

4 shanbe Soori, My Favorite Holiday.

There are several holidays in Iran, and all of them have their history. In my opinion, 4Shanbe Soori is more exciting than others. In English it means Wednesday's Feast. 4Shanbe Soori is the last Tuesday night of a year. Celebration start from evening until mid night. All friends and families get to getter and they eating, drinking, dancing, singing and  making the fire and jumping over it and singing '' Zardiye man az to, sorkhiye man az to.''Translating to English  :   My sickly yellow paleness is yours, your fiery red color is mine! It means : you want the fire take your sickness, pain, sadness and problem  and fire gives you redness, warmth and energy.
There is a traditional snack as a name Ajil, which is mixed of nuts and dried fruits. The main food of  dinner are Ash-Reshteh and Reshte polo.Translating to English : Pottage Reshte and Rice Reshte. ( Reshte is like Noodle ) They cook Noodle pottage in order to achieve their wishes and  health of ill people.

The last part of night is Ghashogh Zani. Girls and women walk around with spoon and cooper bowl and they hide their faces with scarfs. They do not talk just hit the bowls with the spoons. They do it near 7 doors and the owners give them some rice or nuts or money by placing them in the bowl. Ghashoghzani is something like Trick or Treat for the Halloween custom.
These are Persian's believes about 4Shanbe Soori :
- Think, say and act positively.
- Be careful about the health.
- Take care of other people.
- Remove ٍEvil from your mind and your heart.

My favorite place in Iran

I am from Iran. My country has different kind of weather at the same time. In winter, north west of it always has very cold weather and snowing sometimes like Calgary. Middle Of Iran has two large deserts and the south of Iran the weather is always warm and humid.My favorite place in Iran is Kish Island where is in the south, in Persian golf. In my opinion, it is one of gorgeous coral islands in the world.

Welcome!

This is the ESL student's web blog who, arrived Calgary 2months ago. Nice to meet you here.

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