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BoP #6 - Kyrgyz summer pastures

Tajik Event in Berlin

Tajik dancing girls, ursprünglich hochgeladen von mneumann80

Last Wednesday I attended an event organized by the Deutsche Tajikische Gesellschaft in Berlin where clothes for girls or women were presented and traditional dances were shown. The man surrounded by the beautiful tajik girls wearing beatiful clothes is the tajik embassador.

Learning Farsi and Tajiki

Farsi and Tajiki books

Since a few months I am learning Farsi, recently I also started to learn Tajiki, which is very similar except that it is using the Cyrillic script, which is more common to use west europeans due to the similarity to Greek letters. From my experience the Arabic script is not all that hard to learn as one might think at first.

For german-speaking beginners wanting to learn Farsi I can really recommend the book Persisch für Anfänger. To learn Tajiki this is a good textbook. There are no Tajiki textbooks in German!

Farsi exercises

Exhibition by Mana Neyestani

Several impressive cartoons by Mana Neyestani were shown last Friday (11th June 2010) here at University of Karlsruhe. See the video reportage below.

Manifestation in Strasbourg

An impression from the manifestation in Strasbourg.

Liberté pour l'Iran

Best of Pictures #5 - Manhattan

Best of Pictures #4 - "Pirat"

Best of Pictures #3 - Boys in Arslanbob

Best of Pictures #2 - View from Empire State Building

Best of Pictures #1 - Tree over Amman

Moved to Karlsruhe

This is my room in my students residence here in Karlsruhe.

Help Tajik Children

http://www.tadschikistan-projekt.de/

Member of the German-Tajik Association

Since last week I am a member of the Deutsch-Tajikische Gesellschaft e.V. which helps to improve cultural relationships between german and tajik people.

Living in a Buddhist Monastry

Something I'd like to do in the future is to stay a few weeks in a Buddhist Monastry like in Kopan Monastry or Dip Tse Chok Ling. This would for sure be a great experience to get back to the basics of yourself without all the materialism and unnecessary complexity of our world.

Clearing out my Library

Over the last years just too many books have accumulated in my library so that I finally decided to sell the good ones on Amazon, the less good ones via momox. I don't know what I should do with those books that I cannot sell. Maybe I'll give them to the local library. In any way it feels good to get rid of old stuff that is of no use to me anymore.