Journal #20

One of the unacceptable things in my culture is to not eat someone's cooking. It is impolite to enter the door before older people and aslo women. So you should know that when you are going to enter somewhere first of all old women, second women, third old men, forth men and at last children should enter. Children never can say bad words in front of parents and old people. Also it's not common to talk about sex in front of people. Children usually talk about these things aside with their parents. When someone buy a new house, You should go, get a gift and visit him/her. In american culture, it's not acceptable to yell at someone or in public. I remember once we were having dinner and my cousin that was born in United States made fun of grandmother and I was shocked because it's against persian culture to insult or make fun of an elder person. Also always when you see an elder person, you should say hello to respect, but americans don't care much about these things.

Journal #19

My favorite activity in my leisure time is listening to music. In weekends I usually prefer to do something special and fun like going to beach or partying with my friends. Sometimes that I don't have anything to do I watch TV. I also love to talk with my friends; I had tons of friends in my country, so I can't be always on the phone with them because it's so expensive, and it causes that I use internet for chatting so much. These days I don't have enough time to do all of my homeworks and things I should, because exams are coming up, so I don't have time for having fun.

I read Eric's and Kelly's for homework.

Journal # 18

I really had fun all week long. I went to parties,beach,restaurants,etc. So I think I've done all the things i wanted. But I was so interested to go to Disney Land in Anaheim but I couldn't because I didn't have free time for it. And I'm so sad now that weekend is almost over and I have to go to school 5 days of this week! College and ALP along each other make me exhausted.

Journal #17 - EMO

This post was supposed to be about our recent Persian celebration on last sunday (13 beh dar),but my uncle hasn't sent the pictures for me yet!
so I want to write some sentences about Emo. Emo is an abbreviation of Emotional. Emo is something close to Punk and Goth. in Emo phylosophy pain is an attractive and lovely stuff. Emo is now one of the most popular controversial things for kids around the world. Emo is popular just because of its fashion style. in my country teenagers and teens attract to Emo because of its fashion not for its culture. in Emo culture happiness is a sin. Emo instruct kids to be sad and cut themselves and talk about suicide. Emo kids also read and write dark poems. they put their hair into their faces and draw strange things. they also use bloody pictures on their rooms. some websites say to emo kids to not be happy. here in United states where number two cause of death is suicide, I think parents should know abput these things and attend where their children are going. Anyway we shouldn't look at emo just as a fashion style, Emo is a path of life, a dark one...