Thursday, July 23, 2009

My Best Journey


I am going to talk about my best journey I have ever had- Mecca. At first, I had a strange feeling, at the same time I was really happy since I had been able to go to Mecca. Although I did go to the journey, I feel I did not deserve it spiritually.
When I reached Masjed-Al-Haram, first I closed my eyes then opened them and saw kabba. It was so fantastic. I couldn't imagine that I was in front of God`s house. The feeling was unprecedented.
After that, I started doing rituals of Hajj while looking at Kabba simultaneously. When I finished them all, I just felt that God had forgiven all my sins.

The Purpose of Hajj

I want to elaborate on the main purpose this journey. I think the primary aim is to cut off affinity from every thing except for Allah in order to strengthening the alliance with him until one reaches Allah and the essence of worship.
Once a person reaches the level of perfection and the stage of worship, he/she returns to guide the creation of Allah to him.

English Institutes

I tend to compare the educational systems of three major English institutes in Iran which are: ILI, Kish and Language National Institute. I have the experience of studying in all of them and in my opinion; none of them alone meets the needs of an English learner.
ILI has a grammar-based system while Kish Institute has a conversation-based system. In Language National Institute, there two kinds of systems. After passing 7 terms, one must select one way of two choices: the conversation-based or grammar-based system. The number of terms in each one are so following: ILI, 18 terms; Kish Institute, 26; Language National Institute, 15.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

a Rather Unpleasant Day

As usual, I woke up at 5:30 and said my morning prayers. Then I went to the park near our home and did some exercises for about 30 minutes. I bought a loaf of fresh bread and came back home. My mother had prepared breakfast before I reached home. I had a full breakfast, and then I was ready to go to ILI (Iran Language Institute).As always, I was so happy that I was going to ILI. I put on my headphones and I left home. The street was very crowded because a car accident had happened. That caused me to arrive late. Reaching ILI, I rushed into the class but unfortunately the deed was done - I got a "very late" mark by the teacher which almost equals "absent". After I sat down, my teacher called my name and I was really shocked because the teacher had asked me questions last session and I didn't expect him to question me again. I hadn't been able to study the new lesson since I was busy studying for university exams. Then I stood up in front of the class and read the passage. I did the reading really well, but sadly I couldn't summarize the passage in a proper way. My teacher asked me some questions about the passage and I answered them successfully. What happened was not acceptable to me; therefore I decided to be ready under any circumstances.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Journey to Qamsar (Rose Water Festival )

Finally I decided to write some paraghraphs about my journey. At the beginning I had decided to write about my journey to Mecca but after coming back from there suddenly I traveled to my grandfather`s house which is located in Qamsar(Ghamsar).
By going there, I wanted to achieve two of my goals. The first one was visiting my relatives and the other one and of course the more important one was visiting rose water festival which is held there in spring every year.
My grandpa has a different and interesting job. He distills rose flower and some especial kind of plants such as Mint, Thyme, Salix capraea and ...
Qamsar was crowded and I could see a lot of people and tourists. As I am an English student, I went to some of them whose language was English and stroked up a conversation.
Although the weather was hot, it was so pleasant, because Qamsar abounds in trees and the atmosphere is replete with scent of flowers.
It`s necessary to mention that this journey was a new experience, a good memory and a good time for me. I recommend you to visit Qamsar especialy in spring. I`m sure you would have a good time there.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Mecca


I am truly excited because I am going to Mecca on coming Monday.
I have an excellent feeling! Believe me,unprecedented!
This journey is one of the best. It is said that whenever someone looks at Kaaba three desires of them will be definitely fulfilled.
I intend to obtain many things from this journey.
I hope that you go to the journey soon as well.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Syria

Three years ago, I was really thrilled when my uncle who lived in Syria invited me to go there. My uncle used to work in Iran Embassy in Syria. I was really happy and since I didn't have my passport. It took me a while to get one and finally I got one and I went to Syria. I was both afraid and excited because it was my first time going on a trip all alone by myself. At Mehrabad Airport I found out that I had to stay at the airport about 6 hours because of delay. During this 6 hours delay I met a French man, and we talked in english about different subjects specially the world cup 2006. As it had been arranged, when I got to Syria Airport, my uncle's friend picked me up and we went to my uncle's house. I was supposed to stay there for three weeks and the second week we were planning to go to Lebanon. I was having a wonderful time during the first ten days of my trip, but unfortunately the night before going to Lebanon, my uncle came home from his office and said that we all had to get ready to go back to Iran and it was at the Airport that I heard the sad news of my grandmother's death, naturally I got very sad but that's life.