Nafis's Blog – March 2012 Archive (2)

What I Learned Today: Why We Need Hardship

It's been a while I was nagging that I have been under so much pressure. We, the students, have so many assignments to do. There are so many books to study and some essays to write about. It seems that we do not have time for doing something else. I haven't gone to even a simple party or even a…

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Added by Nafis on March 27, 2012 at 20:00 — 16 Comments

Oscar and Me, This Year!

 

I burst into tears when I saw the Academy Film Festival gave the best foreign language award to an Iranian movie called “A separation.”

I do not know why I cried so much. Maybe because I felt we are really forgotten. No one sees us even in the weather forecast of the International news. The meteorologist usually skips over Iran. Not so many people know us. To my surprise, when I took my Canadian citizenship oath, the citizenship officer asked me where Iran is. “Is it…

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Added by Nafis on March 17, 2012 at 1:30 — 24 Comments

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