Negar & Nima

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Reunion time


On Saturday night, I met up with two friends from the past.
The girl in pink, Stacey, was one of my girls when I was serving as a camp counsellor at Sylvan Lake Baha'i School over 9 years ago, in Alberta. I was shocked to see her all grown up now! And the other beautiful girl is my dearest friend Jamal who I handn't seen in 3.5 years. Jamal is getting married to a wonderful guy from Ottawa in December. Congradulations Joubes (old nick name... don't ask... hehe) !!!

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Happy Birthday mom!!



I decided to sing to my mom a little tune that I sing for my students when it's their birthday... I wonder why she feels like she wants to escape!

"Mandana has waited a whole long year to light her birthday candle... and so we sing and sit in a ring... for Mandana is ___ today!"

Monday, October 09, 2006

Updates!




The last six weeks have been quite busy. Nima has changed jobs and is now fortunately working at an automotive engineering company (Magna... for those of you who are interested) just near our house. He is thrilled that he is finally working in his own field. I also started working as a Montessori teacher at a school in downtown Toronto. I have 26 children... needless to say very intense. I will hopefully post some pictures of my classroom soon.

One other very exciting news is that Nima and I just bought our first house. It is not built yet but they say it will be ready by August 2007... einshahllah! I think my parents are more sad than happy that we will be leaving them soon... even though we'll only be 20 minutes away... hehe :) It is a townhouse in a community called Newmarket (45 mins north of Toronto, 20 minutes north of Richmond Hill, which is where we are currently). Newmarket, unlike Richmond Hill, does not have many Baha'is ... so we think it'll be nice to move into a smaller community that probably needs as much support as possible.

In the last few weeks, one of our good friends Naysan went to serve at the Baha'i World Centre for 18 months (picture 1). Hope you're doing well Nayse! We also had a lovely visit from Melissa who is also currently serving in Haifa (picture 2). We showed her the lake that is right near my parents' house. And the last picture is with one of my good high school friends Sameer who I hadn't seen in 4 or 5 years.

These pictures were taken with my new sony ericsson walkman phone, which has a 2 mega pixel camera. Ever since we came to Canada last August, I've been bugging Nima to get us a phone... and as a surprise this is what he got for my first day of work... http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_w810-1402.php
Thanks my love!