Christmas didn’t really feature much here, although we put up our tree from mid December until 6 January 2008. The children were meant to be in school on Christmas day and New Year’s day, but Athena persuaded her other four classmates not to turn up on Christmas. Then, when children in England went back to school, it started to snow.
Tehran has been under the snow since Thursday before last, and school has been closed too, which felt like a belated New Year holiday, only enforced and unplanned. This has had an impact on my work, which is home-based, but thankfully, schools have re-opened today.
My news on the professional front: I am quite busy, and may soon be busier still with interesting things. I am doing freelance translation for a government publishing company where a friend of mine works, and who have just given me a teenage novel to translate from Persian to English. The publishers think that this novel stands a chance of doing well at an international competition.
Another friend of mine, a Clinical Psychologist, has proposed that we prepare a series of ten English workshops for Clinical Psychologists. If it proves successful , we might repeat the same pattern with different content for different groups. On the whole, and despite the negative aspects of life in Tehran (traffic, pollution and overcrowding mainly), things are much bettter than I hoped, for me at least (Diet Coke is widely available too.)
I’d love to update the blog more often, but the dial-up connection is so slow that I get fed up with it. Today luck was on my side, but, to be fair, I woke up before everyone else, before the server gets overwhelmed.