Busy Bee

Buzz.

I'm on eight straight working days and counting!

On Thursday and Friday LC Tehran ran it's Induction Session for our 27 new members. It was a blast - we have some fantastic new members - really high quality. It was full on, lots of faci'ing, lots of organising etc - just the usual running around, but it felt great.

Yesterday was a public holiday for Eid al-Adha, or Eid e Gorban as they call it here. Iran really does Eids differently to other muslim countries. It's just not something that's really celebrated, as far as I can see. Persians call the New Year (March 21) Eid.

I think there's still a lot of bitterness about the Arab influence on Iran, everything from the alphabet, to some words, to Islam - all of it was brought (or imposed?) on the Persians, and they haven't forgotten.

/tangent.

Yes, so I spent yesterday at the boss' place, having a 'team day'. We did a good lot of work, mostly sharing our plans for the coming months, identifying our strengths and weaknesses, and reflecting on the past 5 months of our term. It was really good for us, we needed it.

So I'm back in the office today, then another weekend (which I also plan to work), then zoom off to Turkey for ATEMCO. Re-entry visa is in process, cheap bus tickets are being investigated, all in all we're looking good :)