Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Panj shanbe 01 Farvardin 1387, Bob Shaw wrote: > Yo, Mark: > > The Persian New Year is called (if you speak English...) Noh Rooz. > Simply means, "New Year". > > Back in the day (mid 60's) as a young Marine I attended the (then) U.S. > Army Language School in Monterey, CA. Now it's gentrified and call the > Defense Language Institute, West Coast. > > One of the greatest years of my life; a single Marine Corporal living > in Monterey for 48 weeks among other young service personnel and the > odd Spook from CIA/DIA/NSA/Dept. of State etc. in one of the most > beautiful regions in North America. > > Learning Farsi (Persian) from Iranian ex-pats during the day and > drinking and eating out almost every night with other guys learning > Russian, Chinese, Czech, you name it. And racing over to Carmel at > lunch, down to Big Sur or up to San Francisco on the weekends. Amazing > bunch of folks. > > The Persian history, traditions and culture was fascinating, the range > of backgrounds of the instructors from a Bakhtiari (nomadic tribe) to > elitist academics and the Persian food was superb. > > So yeah; happy Noh Rooz, dude! > Happy new year to you too. Best regards Ali