October 13, 2012
RETURN to my blog, sorry about the 3 year absence

Dear Readers of my blog,
Last night I went to see the movie ARGO, about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.  It inspired me to return to my blog writing.  Seeing the scenes in the movie, as the "film crew" tried to drive through the bazaar in Teheran, reminded me of my family and I driving our Volkswagon station wagon only a year before that, after escaping war torn Afghanistan, and driving into Iran.  Foreigners were not very welcomed, and even if we were Swedish, our nationality was not written on our foreheads, only on our passports.  It was a frightening time driving through the land.  Yet my parents tried to still teach us the Persian culture as we entered the land, and we visited magnificent mosques and persian ruins and palaces.  I don't think I realized as an eleven year old how dangerous of a place we were in.  I have realized this as I have grown up, and now looking back, after seeing ARGO the movie.
Since I wrote in 2009, my principal Mr. Eberhart of Ahlman Academy has passed away.  It has been almost a year now.   Mr. and Mrs. Eberhart did incredible good things.  They helped sponser their Afghan neighbors, and provided for them during their first time in America, after escaping Afghanistan.
Since I wrote in 2009, my own life has been an interesting journey, and I will update for awhile daily.
Good night,
from thetravelsofann