Home

It is so wonderful to feel you are going to have your own place to live, the place that you can call it my home!
I was born in a home, and grew in a home, and also raised my children in a home where I could call that my home.
Never, I had thought how it would feel to live in a place which is not yours. A place which you just live there without belonging feeling, and having roots. Living with no sense of relations toward the actual home. Now I am about to have my own place, and it is a very especial feeling, so very especial. It is like a new start for a new life, and you are the person how design everything.


I want to up date you about tomorrow class, Monday night. I will be absent of the class unfortunately to be in other class I talked about that to you before. I will email all my home work. Hope i have this chance to pass the vocabulary test net week.
Thanks.

Maryam,          

new flowers

Hello Dear Teacher

I was working on my homework before coming to the blogger to write to you. next Monday, as we talked I need to be in other class same time with your class unfortunately. I missed many of other dates for same purpose because of my circumstance regarding my daughter' arrival.
I think I can come earlier to give you my homework, I would be glad to take the vocabulary test a week after.
Thanks for all you do in our class.

Maryam   

Rainy Night

Day or night I do not care, I always like the rain. If I were biking, walking, hiking, or in the car driving home or to the wok I would enjoy the rain. It is so calming, and I feel the life gets easier and slower in the rainy days or nights. If you be on the bed and you listen to the rain, you feel so relax because something is cleaning the yard, and watering the lawn. Something kindly is washing the dust from the roof, the leaves, and the walls.
The rain is amassing because it washes the old memories from rocks, and makes new dreams on them. Tonight is rainy, and I am sure I will sleep better, and I will have a good day tomorrow.    

a quiet genocide

Hello Dear Professor
I read an article about cancer in Iran. That was so horrible because the article said the rate age of cancer is coming down in Iran. They believe the main reason for that is the radiation provided by government. They try to stop Iranian of contact to the rest of world. So they send waves that make cancer in people's body, especially in big cities. Cities like Tehran,the capital, surrounded by many equipment those make para zit over the city. Those para zit give people hard time to watch, for example, CNN,or even National Geography. Now there is a genocide going on there, just nobody can hear that.              

Tomorrow

I am very so excited! I can not believe my daughter will be here just less than twenty four hours. It is five years and four months and twenty days that I have been looking forward to see her, to huge her, to kiss her, and to give her the opportunity to grow. In this last minutes before our class I wanted to share with you my feeling, dear teacher.

 

Carter's Birthday

April 18 was Carter's Birthday, the baby, who I was his nanny since was born. We celebrated his birthday tonight. His mother, his grand mother, one of their old friends, his brothers, and I. We barbecued in the yard, and after dinner, we opened the gifts. he was excited to open them sooner, so he did not finished his dinner, and rushed to the table set with gifts! his older brother, Parker, had wrapped them earlier. He is just seven, and very lovely, clean and organized. He is getting the idea that he is responsible for his younger brothers, so he help this mom and her friend to set table too. I do not like he plays dad's role for them because he needs to take his childhood time, it is not fair, but it is what it is. It happens when one of parents disappeared, or be passive; The oldest one takes the role.   

It was so hot today!

Today was so hot. I was watering the grass in the early morning, and I felt that. I thought, it would be so warm, and it happened. It got really uncomfortable here in the Valley. But maybe not too bad in the higher area like Santa Monica. I saw the leaves just in one day and half from yesterday at noon to now were burnt out. I think if   it goes in this way we are going to have some fire here and there as well. This one is not fun at all, seeing the trees are burning, I mean.
When I went hiking once I saw many many burnt trees falling down between ashes from the last fires.
Somebody told me there are many people who like to burn the jangles and watch; It is their enjoyments!  

Prays in the past

Hello, I tried to find an easy pray from the book I have to translate, regarding last blog which I wrote about Navajo Indian's prays, but they were so hard to translate for me from Farsi to English.
My interest in those prays was not because I am a religious person, for I found them so smooth in reading, simple in words, and deep in meaning. We sometimes think people who lived hundred years ago were not intelligent as well as us, or they had no idea about humanity and life. We laugh at them with out thinking there were many positive thoughts in their culture which are capable to solve our problems now.
One of their idea was respect to nature, a big missing part of our life today.     

Hello

I have a book which my family sent to me from Iran. It is about prays that belong to thousand years ago. I believe 1000 BC, if I want to be more specific. I am telling that regarding my last blog that I wrote to you about Navajo Indian. I was surprise when I read the pray because it was so well directed of showing human being's interest toward growth.
In the book, Gaths, I see same concept of humanity and nature. I have no idea where are gone all that beauty of our life. I like to write at least one of its pray, but they are in Farsi. I need to ask for help from my boyfriend then I would write that to you, so you can see what I mean.

Maryam,

Navajo Indian

Hello Professor

It happened that I signed for a presentation in my speech class under Navajo Indian title. For this I needed to look for everywhere to find information about them, from past to present. I read about their history, food, costume, art, economy, and the area where they live now. In spite of all interesting and lovely subjects in those materials, their prays effected on me more. I found one, which I want to share with you, so deep in concept of human beings and their needs toward harmony with nature.

" In beauty may I walk.
All day along may I walk.
Through the returning seasons may I walk.
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
With beauty all around me may I walk".         

Opss

Hi again!

I clicked on a wrong bottom, so my massage came to you before I finish that. I am so tired; It is 1:27 am.
I can not make the class on Monday, April 30. I have other class same time for my Cooperative Education program . It will be at BSC building at 6:30 pm, I need to go. I do not miss one of the vocabulary test may I do a make-up test please?

Maryam

New Name

Hello Dear Professor
I hope you had a good vacation. I am so excited to see you, and be in your class tomorrow night. The new thing about me is my daughter got her ticket finally, and we can live together after a long separation again. Five years and four months, that was unbelievable, I had no idea it could be last so long.
Other news is I have changed my last name to Adveen, but I am not sure if administration has informed you in new list or not.

See you tomorrow evening,

Maryam Adveen
Momenabadi   

Last Name Changing

I know maybe you do not read the blogs in spring break which is good, we need some time just for ourselves, but I addicted to writing, even though you might be out of town!
I change my last name in March 22 legally at Van Nuys court. Interesting enough it became to be my birthday too. Now I am Maryam Adveen. I received new driver license, social security card, and my car insurance card just less than two weeks. I applied right away for those, but I thought it would take more time to get them in the mail box. I still need to inform Valley College and some more offices. It is possible only with one of those cards that I have now.
There was many reasons for changing my last name first I did not feel any connection with the former one, plus it was too long to fit in the forms. My sister change her name more than twenty years ago to Adveen because of same reason, and now it was my turn, so I did.       

Water Crises, part two

There are many water tables under the ground that are not touched, or even known all over the world. For example the largest one is in the desert in Libya, but the point about using those source of sweet water is expense and governments over there.
$ 400 billion money is working in water industry every year, and it means the third largest industry afterelecticity and oil in the world. Five litters of water use to make a bottled water. In many countries millions of hours spend to provide the water just for a house hole per year. Those wasted time could use to make the available water accessible, just along one year.
Interesting way which is cheap to clean the water from heavy metal is banana's peels. This method is not fine for house hold, but people can do it in the villages that their water is contaminated with pollution. Every day people die of water's problem, but it could stop if the circumstances change to the wisdom part of life.