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Hey!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:30:00 +0000

Hey Sophie!!!

How are things with you?!

I’m having busy but good days. I had a cold which I liked! But now I’m fine.
In this month ,Ramezan, as you know, Muslims fast, to be honest, this year is the first year I understand its meaning really deeply. Everyone avoids eating, drinking, lying, and doing any sin or bad things only for God. I think nothing is as beautiful as being pure and honest for a month in a year, in a religion. It shows such a strong faith...
The word Ramezan means “Burning”. Burning the sins, and become innocent. So you throw away all the sins, and become innocent. It’s great you have this chance every year. I feel like Ramezan was in our culture, not in Islam. I do it like a tradition from my childhood, from where I am. It’s totally cool…

In school, they give us a lot of homework, what I never get used to. Though, my mom says in primary school I loved doing homework! It’s not nice to remember really… but my new school has many good teachers, students and a big great library. Although the teacher who works in the library doesn’t know much about the books, I have found any books I wanted or needed.
I’ve heard, it even has some books which are banned. I love our library!

The weather is hopelessly hot! The mornings are incredible, it’s cool and cloudy, but during the day, it’s like the summer! and the nights are cold...how's the weather there?!

Hope to hear from you soon!
All the best,

Pantea

P.S: this building is our school! =D

fall

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:22:00 +0000

Fall is arriving with its usual weird magnificence, this week, here, the weather, the nature, and also the atmosphere, everywhere partly was summer, partly was fall.
And me myself, I’m partly summer, partly fall. =D

We have our first cloudy days after a while! Monday when i woke up, i saw huge grey clouds in the sky, i became so happy to see them! I miss the rain very very much. Today is sunny but i'm so cold...

My first school day is going to be on Saturday. Though, I read everywhere, that it may be Sunday because of the air pollution. Anyway… Guess what is our first subject? Mathematic! And then it’s Arabic...I’d really nag about them…

but in fact i'm very happy about Saturday!

Hope to hear from you soon,
Pantea

Hey!!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:48:00 +0000

Hi Sophie!

How are things with you?
for me, they are okay but fast...minutes and hours fly, i start to do a thing and before i realize, it's dark outside, and i fall asleep and then the next day comes even faster...

Today was a busy full day! I was cleaning (better to say washing) my room. Washing the walls, the floor, and all the stuff. I loved it! I could feel the fragrance of fall in my room, in the sky and in myself. my family was shocked to see me doing these things after a year not cleaning my room.

what is your favourite season? i have none...i love all. i think one of the most attractive things in the nature is the seasons. they come and go, and they come again. they go again. and they repeat and still they are beautiful, they are different and they are unique. we can smell them, we can feel them and we can touch them, finally we can let them go, and the next season comes. and it's just VERY different. I adore this changing. the nature is undescribable!
what do you think about nature?
my idea is just saying nothing. words are poor to describe this magical holy gift, and i think sometimes, just looking at the sky is VERY more precious than writing deeply only using these weak words. i love trees, i love trees very much. do you?

Hope to hear from you soon
Pantea

Sorry for the laziness

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:07:00 +0000

Hi Sophie!

Happy to hear about your exam results! that's very great really, well done!

So cool you enjoyed your holiday...wow sea? I really love sea! I miss it very much. Last time we went to sea, was two years ago. My brother always liked to walk along the sea, for a very long time. I just liked to stare at it, and my cousin always searched for a ball so we can play together, like little children! we always had many balls but all of them had a hole on them! we could play for hours until the sunset, night and then the families (my uncle's) would come and we had the dinner in a restaurant nearby. we had dinners like...fish! do you like fish? I HATE fish! first it makes me feel terrible thinking about killing these poor creatures just to eat them...it's very cruel to see how they die...and they also smell! the awful thing is that, each time we (THEY) ordered fish, there was a small pool nearby and a man would go and take a fish ALIVE and just 15 minutes later, the fish was on our table! my uncle always forced us to eat garlics...it was horrible! anyway, did you take any picture of the sea? i'd love to see some...!

gee, you have rain over there? awww how beautiful! these days, i long for cold days very much, demanding rain...here we have still hot days...poorly! oh it's nice you like rain...i love rain. who doesn't?

now, i'm waiting for school! that's strange, i'm almost happy about the end of this summer. you know, i had many programs to do in this summer. there were some classes and places i liked to go...there were some things i liked to learn but my father didnt like them, it doesn't matter really, it's just as well i had so much time to think and read. now i think i'm entering a new step, a new chapter of my life, and i'm really ready! Ready to do my best. Ready to see and ready to go! yesterday i was looking at my new uniform, i love it!

you have a cold? oh it's awful! drink a lot of orange juice and rest (like moms!) although for me having cold is a funny time...

take care!

and get well soon!

Pantea

P.S: the picture didn't upload!

Hi!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:32:00 +0000

Hey Sophie!

What are things like?

I hope you're doing well.
Here, the weather became really better but still hot. I think this cruel heat gives me a non stop headache. And miserably, sleepless nights and days full of tiredness. I can’t find any other reasons about that. I spend the entire week home and just read. It’s enjoyable to see you have many hours just to comfort and read.

School will begin in 3 weeks for me! It gives me a hodgepodge of happy and sad thoughts. I love my new school so I feel very happy to know more about it. But school is school! It means boring classes … logical teachers…and busy days, you know!

Some days ago, my mom and I went to the movies. There was a very good movie "In the name of the father". Don't mix it up with that Gerry Conlon. this is a Persion movie directed by Ebrahim Hatamikia, i think it was the first movie by him I really really liked. We rarely go to the cinema, so It was really nice for me!

Hope to hear from you soon,

Pantea

hey

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:00:00 +0000

Hi Sophie!!!

How are you???

these hours i have a very strange feeling...a very heavy one...

My math classes are over now, I’m back from home now, we had an exam this morning. I thought the exam would be harder, but it was okay! Now I have so much time to do my favourite things, of course much more time to read, to think about some things, and to deal with some things…
Before summer I wanted to do a huge researching about religions but actually I’m reading only the philosophical books by the philosophers in the last century. Now I’m reading a book by Bochenski (I love his name!), he can explain hard topics with simple words so well but I don’t agree with him really…(who cares really!)

My mom is too tidy too! Ha ha! No one in my family is messy, even my relatives are tidy! (God knows why i'm messy!) so they have to deal with it so intolerantly...!

I'm going to change my room, no one would help me but i will do it! I promised myself and i'm going to do it, i think 'my room' is a very important place, a very important role in my life! Don’t you think so? Your room is you. Your room describes you, and you describe your room. Your room is your world…and no one can understand…it’s your own room, your freedom…

japanese pop? Wow sounds amazing! i'd love to listen to some! Oh I like those german heavy metals ! the taste of this music is so strange! But sometimes I see it’s really a part of human being, maybe the weirdest and most complicated part! My brother braught a horrible metal CD from Romania, it’s really strange to call it “music”.

wow you went to Green Day concert? it's wonderful really...!

Have a great day...

hope to hear from you soon

Pantea

Hey!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:47:00 +0000

Hi Sophie!

I am very fine! I was pretty lazy this week, almost in doing everything...

such as posting here!

I have many things to do, I promised myself to study english and french everyday...but i wasted my time all this week...i havn't done my homeworks, and I studied nothing for the exam on Sunday...woooh, i have 2 days ... but i wanted to study 'every' thing, but let's do it tomorrow...
(i'm always like this!).

My room is a beautiful mess too! I really like this kind of mess...you can't walk easily, you can't find anything and it's somehow weird. it's hard to explain, but some messy rooms are boring...!! But really, one of the hardest thing in the world is keeping a room neat for more than a day!

Yeah! I have two brothers!! My big brother is 22 and my little brother is only 2! I myself don't think I'm a good sister! haha! My brother and I are opposite too, he's so tall and thin, but i'm so shorter...and i get fatter everyday...! (sometimes he really eats a lot and he's still so thin!!)

Wow cool! I love trips! I wish you'll have a great time there...well no, we won't go on any trip this summer. you don't know how much i want to be in the north of Iran even for an hour...oh North of Iran is so beautiful!!! the weather is so cool...and there is a beautiful deep sea there! wow...it has so many amazing jungles! I love the trees there...i love the smell of the special air all over the north...we always go there with my uncle! And it's toooooooo enjoyable! but the last time we went there was more than 2 years ago...

Do you like music? I love it! it's about 6 months i only listen to classical and some old favourite songs...what is your favourite classical music? I adore Chopin!! his songs are truly undescribable...
then i like Beethoven and maybe Bach.

Best wishes,

Pantea

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:37:00 +0000

Dear Sophie,

I'm going to leave for the english classes about some minutes, I'm so tired these days too! Even though I try to be very happy, there is a very unpleased atmosphere here. Never mind really, but I myself have a very strange feeling...

I love my new school! But you know, I miss nagging about school!

I don't think we will move in, I really don't know...we had a very bad, really bad arguement about this, i don't really understand, you know, we saw a very amazing house, it was incredible! I loved it, I already chose my room, and it had too many plants, and they had NO one...we were on the way to move in, but i don't know, everything changed! It doesn't matter...we always have arguements, this one was somehow different!

Oh yeah our school is really great! It has so many clubs! It even has Sepak Takraw which makes me laugh! My father thinks we learn how to defend in Kung Fu classes but it's more like some special fast movements with a little beauty. But totally, it's so funny!

How is the weather there? Here it's sunny and hot, but still much better than last week, we have had terrible warm days, i am happy they are over, even though it IS still hot!

Okay, I really have to go...

Warm wishes,

Pantea

Hey! =D Sorry for the wait again...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:13:00 +0000

Dear Sophie!

Sorry for the wait too! I read your post on Saturday and I said okay, I will reply after a drink, but it took more time than a 'drink'! Oh my computer exploded once too, and i must confess I had a terrible time being not able check e-mails, or whatever. So I truly understand!

I'm fine! Things are great for me!

This is certainly the most enjoyable to get lost with friends! It must be amazing! Haha! I'm happy you had such a good time! Window shopping is nice, it really depends on the shops, I hate those clothing stores, but I love those shops which sell amazing beautiful stuff which some people call "useless" things in life! I adore bookshops! We have a huge bookshop nearby "Book City", it has a lot of nice but really expensive stuff AND books. I don't like those stuff, they are for those rich people...if you want to buy some of them, then it must be once a year or so...anyway wow! I can be there for 3 hours walking and smell all those amazing books, from amazing, or absurd poetries to some special medical books! And the people there are very interesting too, you can see all kinds of people come, you can be FREE there...and you want to fly...oh i love there!

I had 3 math classes and a Kung Fu class (Isn't it funny?), I love my new school! We had our midterm exam today, and I actually wrote everything well and gave it to the teacher happily, but soon, I realized I missed a question and it was 2 points! TWO points! Anyway, I am glad I have only 6 classes rest...

We are going to move in, I am so happy! you know? I can have a new room and of course a new landlord! I'm going to have a new desk, and more important, a new bookcase which is really amazing!!! I imagine my new room with a thousand of plants...

I'd love to see your pictures!

Best wishes for you,

Pantea

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:53:00 +0000

Dear Sophie,

Here, everything is nice and I’m doing well, thanks! We don’t have summer school here too, our school is almost a good one here, so it has a lot of classes, like math classes. And because my father is a little strict about me, so I go to these math classes which I must confess are useful for my future. You know, here we have an entrance exam for universities. Unless they want to quit studying in high school, almost everyone will concentrate on this exam. Though I think I am really lazy to think about such a thing from now…

Wow girl £30,000 a year? This is unbelievable! I didn’t know it’s this posh! I mean who can pay such much money? I honestly didn’t know it can be this much…
But it’s very interesting to know about the schools there.

So you don’t have a religion? Not having a religion doesn’t mean not believing in God, because a religion isn’t I think only Christianity, Islam or Jew. “Religion” is a very very complicated but deep thing that I must confess I still need years to understand each religion’s philosophy. I love philisophical debates too! I’m scared of my weak English! Last year I read a lot about religion, what a ‘religion’ is in your mind? In our books, we read it’s a way God tell us to pass, but I think religion is a way to reach God, everyone has its own way, it can be any way, but when you’ll reach that way, then you can’t go in any way you want, you’ll have to walk in its special unique way. And the way is like, the distance you go deeper, is the distance it becomes deeper. And is also the distance you become deeper.

Oh that show sounds a little scary! I just can pray (I’m sure it works!) for you that it won’t be as bad as you think! Especially that dance, the teacher seems scary to me!

Bowling with friends…it’s an amazing thing! How great friends are…wow you must post pictures, yeah! I can’t wait for them! Maybe we'll go on a short trip to north about some weeks, in fact, it's a year we want to go, god knows, but if we will, i'll send you some pictures of our beautiful north...

Take care,
Best wishes,

Pantea

Sorry for the wait too!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:05:00 +0000

Dear Sophie,

I must excuse you because of my late post, I’m such a bad friend. I think we’re friends already. I went to school today, oh yeah math classes in summer!!! I was such a shy and foolish girl, I think it’s going to be better soon! I mean it was amazing for the first day…

Wow girl, you go to those kinds of schools? You know here we have two kind of schools, for boys or girls. It’s not like there; we have NO school with boys and girls both. I’ve heard some schools are like this over there too, those rich schools? Is this school one of those amazing but strict schools in England? I’m kinda excited to know more about your school and stuff there! You know? We will wear navy blue very soon! My last school had bottle green uniforms! Haha!

Thanks for your Congratulations! Thanks, I am very happy yeah! Oh I started yesterday! The classes were good till now except the English classes which were somehow childish. Anyway I loved it there…

Quentin Tarantino is awesome! Indeed! Uhm, Maybe I like those touching drama films, I don’t know, maybe the true stories, or any good kinad movie. I am very fond of the films about great men, maybe…I think the most famous can be Braveheart, or Peter Vier movies are awesome. I also like some Clint Eastwood works, maybe some amazing directors like (let me check the spelling) yeah Jessie Nelson or Vincent Ward … Frank Darabont ...

Haha! I swear when first Mrs. Inge told me about a partner Sophie, I thought about a philosophical friend! Haha! philosophy gym? Sounds like a cool name! Who’s the writer? I am now reading a book, by a german writer, Heinrich Boll. (It’s not philisophical!)

induction day for college…? Wow, I wish you all the best!

I must go now…
Waiting for you,

Pantea

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:40:00 +0000

Dear Sophie,

Thanks for wishing me luck! You know, the interview was foolish yesterday! But they said they will call tomorrow (today)! And guess what! I got accepted!!! Hoooraaaa!!!! I am so so so so so happy about it! It must be great! It's really great and I am soooo happy!!!!!! so happy!

That's great! Math and physics are nice, though I really like physics more. Traveling? Sounds exciting!!! You know, you can always write beside your job. So you can always be a writer!
I know a good person, not maybe a friend, but she likes math and physics and French too. She’s going to do Business management in the university. She has to study You know, not those types in which you sit in an office and do boring accountings, but those types in which you travel like in movies!!!!

Plans for future? Sure I do…but I think, things can be very different in the real life. I mean with family. I always loved theatre. I never had a chance to do it really, just in childhood. But now, my father thinks it’s absurd. It’s no problem, but I want to study film making in the future. Even though my father says I must be an engineer. I will study math in the high school but I want to do film making in the university. I will try my best to reach this dream, who knows? Maybe I will be a director someday…

But writing is really my life. Though I don’t think I am that good in it, it’s a dream to be a writer. I’m not worried about this, because I think I’m free enough to do this! Maybe beside my job! What ever it will be.

Tolkien and H.G Wells! Sounds so nice, you know, I have this old The Lord of the rings book in my room but actually I have never read it! I watched the movie, and it was nice! But I have read Hobbits and I liked it. Not very much honestly but I think the writer said the story in the best way it could be.

Science fiction is very nice! Two years ago I was fond of these kinds of books. I still like them very much! I guess you like Harry Potter and the amazing J.K Rowling? Aw last year I was a crazy Pottery! Still I love Harry Potter. The books are very magical, and not only is the story very exciting but also it’s very meaningful. It says some meaningful things in a science fiction way and it’s very admirable!

But myself…I love all kind of books actually. I like any good book with a beautiful message; maybe The Little Prince is very very very precious to me. Maybe the other Exupery’s book…needless to say how great they are. I also like philosophic books, these days I mostly read them, they are very very interesting! Sophie’s World by Gaarder was my first experience of these sorts of books. Or the amazing Christian Bobin.

We don’t have those clubs you imagine, here. But we do. Maybe mostly sport clubs. At least around our house. I’m not in any club, no, but I’d love to. I think a theatre group is fantastic! Really fantastic! So what are you going to play? I know how nervous you are! I wish everything will go great! Just imagine there is nobody there, I know how hard it is! Good luck!

Best Wishes,

Pantea

Great hearing from you!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:49:00 +0000

Dear Sophie,

I am genuinely happy to see I have a post from you here! How good it is! Aw I am sure you got all great marks! Enjoy your holidays...spending time with friends is one of the most enjoyable things in the world!

My summer holidays has started yesterday. Hopefully [!] I am going to go to a new school next year, I am not sure but If I pass the interview tomorrow, I will go there! I am very excited about this new school because I really didn't like my school all these 3 years.

I bet I made many many grammer mistakes...i always make foolish mistakes! You can be my new english teacher!

My best friend has finished school last week too! Wow, I love all the subjects you are going to have, next year! Though they can be hard, I think they are very interesting! So tell me, what do you want to be in the future?

Reading is great! What kinds of books do you read? What are your favourite writers...?

Best Wishes,

Pantea

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:07:00 +0000

Hi!
I'm Pantea Armanfar (i'm a girl!), I'm exactly 13 year, 8 months and 29 days old. and I'm really glad to take part in this nice program...

This is really hard to start! Because i don't know who i am writing to...I am now having holidays because of our new year (haha!), I am really excited about it..I'm studying In the third year of guidance high school, and next year, I'm going to arrive to a real high school and i feel so old when i think about it!

In school, we have so many subjects...hmm let me see...math, physics, Arabic (we study arabic as a language), earth science, arts (which i really like), history, english (my favourite one) and much more. I really like everything about art...i love taking photographs and i do it as my hobby which i really enjoy, but because i lent my camera to my aunt, it doesn't work anymore...!

I also love writing, i really live with it. I sometimes write poems...which are really awful. One of the things i REALLY do enjoy is reading. aw love it so much that i can't describe...imagine...drinking tea in a cold day and reading a book, and no school! This is really enjoyable for me.

Waiting for you...
Pantea

Welcome

noreply@blogger.com (Clifford) — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:31:00 +0000

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