Sunday, November 27, 2005

Hola Spain (a Weekend in Spain)


Last week me and an Iranian and an Italian Guy wetn to Spain for a weekend.

we get there at almost 9:30. and the first difference between Switzerland and Spain appeared. The bus from airport to the city of Alicante was 20min late. In witzerland there are timetables and the busses are almost ontime, maybe 1 min late sometimes.
Thanks God, we had our Italian friend who could understand some words of spanish, cause in spain u can rarely find someone who can speak english. The other main difference is that the the lunch is being served from 1:30 PM till 5:30, and dinner almost from 10PM on. The first day, saturday,was sunny and warm. we went to the beach and played volleyball. The temp was more than 20 and there were some people taking sun bath.
Interesting point is that on saturday night there was a game between Real Madrid and Barcelona and many people in Alicante
were watching the game in bars. well, we joined them as well. Great Game.
well spanish people live at weekend nights, and you can many people in the streets at 5 AM! Well this is their life style.
Sunday was not so warm, so we visited an old castle called "Castillo" in Spanish, which I have put the pic here. Anyway Adios Spain.
Funny is that after experiencing that weather we came back to Switzerland and two days later we had the first snowfall in Bern.

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

How is my life going?

"How is your life going?", a guy asked me yesterday.
the answer was: Much better than the same time of the last year.
you may ask whay? I'll tell you.

At the same time of the last year, I was in the training part of the military service in Jey military camp in Tehran. Our commander was a 21 years old boy!!!! you know why he was our commander? Because he was there 4 months before us!! *** FUNNY HUH?***
This boy had a associate degree (2 years of university study), and you can imagine how jealous he was about most of us, who had engineering and master degrees. But the power was in his hands. We were eating low quality food, having a lot of military exercise during the day, having very short time of sleep (because we had to guard the armory sometimes) and we were not allowed to go out of the camp for a week.
In other words we were injailed weekly. you can check out a picture from that time at the end of this weblog.
But now, I am in Switzerland doing a Ph.D, getting a good money, and enjoying the time. Also, instead of going to Javadnia mountains for shooting, I can go to Alpine mountain ranges here(Check Alpine mountains Picture below) and have some fun. . .

As a conclusion my life's condition has been ever progressing so far. If it goes on in this way, I may be Iran's president 25 years later. NO KIDDING :-)