I haven't written here for a long long time.. I have two exams tomorrow and yet this is the day i have to write! this term has been by far the hardest term. There are so many things i haven't had time for. I miss my piano so badly that listening to the pieces i used to play almost brings me into tears. My taar is right next to me but i haven't been kind to it lately. I miss my TO home, family and friends and of course the city. there are so many of my friends (including the ones in Iran!) i want to talk you. you can feel so isolated if you're doing labs all day and then spend all your time in the library catching up..

for some reason i'm not even stressed. i'm not done studying for either subject, yet i'm so relaxed. it must be the music. it was so beautiful today. the 2 hours of sitting under the sun, lying on the grass, and not so much worrying about exams, helped me regain so much energy and happiness! I cannot wait for the summer to come.. i hope our trip to New York works out, or maybe a trip to Vancouver.. i just love day dreaming. dreaming about going to Europe made me so excited that now I just want to keep on dreaming.afterall, without dreams and hope, you cannot go on.. the act of dreaming and trying to acheive it gives you so much energy and will that it is merely a sufficient reason to justify itself, even if you never reach it.
aah i should go back to cramming..
Anthropology is actually interesting if you don't have to memorize so much..here's one interesting fact. The Nayar caste in india don't have marriages as defined in most cultures. The "bride" lives in a large household with her family, where she is visited by her numerous "visiting husbands" who come at night and leave the following day. The husbands are not responsible for her children since they wouldn't know who the father is! so it's the bride's family (usually brother) that supports her children, since he is probably a visiting husband himself with no responsibility!