So, I once again, is yes again a little past time since the entry. I'll try just the last few weeks to arrange in my head, but succeeds only moderate degree. Well, maybe comes with writing. Zunächstmal the biggest change is that I now live alone first time, for the first time in my life as I noticed the other day. Einar is back in Germany, powering on the loose, Britt traveled the country a little before the tents completely stops and looks only sporadically a look.
The salon has unexpected qualities
Party on 10.1. we celebrated here with us and Einars Michels birthday. After the New Year's Eve debacle, there were the organizers and residents of certain fears, which proved true not. The party was roaring and exhilarating at the same time, the most badass was probably the unexpected presence of women, with a count sometime before midnight we came to a ratio of 19:5, yeah! Fears of angry neighbors or bribery horny moral guardians were fortunately unfounded, everything went smoothly, except that my great box for the road has gotten a little something, as any expert you drink on the workbench has emptied. there Oh, photos of this event and other beautiful things in kaioo enshallah's then soon.
Going South
... ... it was then just over a week again. To the persistent gray Tehran mud cold to escape once more we decided to Simon, Claudia, Agnes and I to go on there, where at least Simon and I were recently stopped, ie when touring the Persian Gulf, and the coast of the Indian Ocean. Actually, I wanted somewhere else, then to Turkey, his went there, but rumors of temperatures around 20 degrees then let me desist. Well, I'm going now, not too much time with city name Who bomb before anyone say what, but we have traveled and primarily on two islands named Hormuz and Qeshm. of oil from the Gulf is delivered throughout the world - first time to Hormuz, the island is - surprise - on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a large part - Hobbygeostrategen Write a number to provide. Well, Hormuz is definitely the Burner, the people are there just on Auschillen. And probably have seen in years no more foreigners, but apart from a few kiddies them is sometimes not care. As it chills would rather sit on the beach or just come around just anywhere, surrounded by the many goats, the more harsh , Smell, but apparently also enjoy civil rights. A few people were just about to fish, but that was also addressed deliberately casual.
Well, since we were only a few hours, then we are set on our main objective in Qeshm. The Lonely Planet calls this poor man's island of Kish, the attentive reader may recall yet, on the island I was sometime in December again. Once there, the whole place was actually quite solid NEN first impression, but then gabs problems on housing, for inexplicable reasons, was just all full. Our knowledgeable, local taxi driver was able to bring light into darkness, the hotels were all because of the Iranian New Year in seven weeks sold out. This relationship opened up to us not at first, but with time was clear: the whole psycho Iranians go seven weeks in front of the New Year after Qeshm to stock up there with gifts. To later demand towards the way we learned that there really is nothing to buy special, only there are the fake Chinese stuff supposedly a little cheaper. So you could then always people who woke with eight sacks, boxes and suitcases full of gifts tip somehow associations to this unspeakable "good home" poster from the NPD.
Well, after several failures, we were carted to a widow, in whose house we lived then, they went for the three days next door to her mother. And so we got even a glimpse into such a family living in southern Iran: The woman who Fateme, is widowed at 21 and had at the time already had three children. As a widow, and then also with three daughters, she has there really no chance of re-marry. The oldest daughter is married to 17, and has one child, the next is fifteen, engaged to be married in two years, her six-year-older cousin. This is of course very, very bad, but who can at least not outwardly say that they would interfere with that. You probably know nothing else and found ourselves unmarried twentysomethings probably as strange how we do.
Well, otherwise Qeshm dusty broken, and interspersed with crumbling small town. Was interesting and was fun, but Iran is already rather advanced. For one day, we went just always hitchhiking, often toured in the back of pick-ups on the island and have a little looking around and even found a lonely place to bathe.
"Justice is the most important needs of mankind" (government poster in Tehran)
it, then once a mighty leap to policy issues, it is precisely this concerns me very much. Somehow this is all very surreal. I'm sitting here in my room, read a lot about Value criticism and queer studies, and what happens around me otherwise. This year, dozens of people have been executed, some of them in a notorious prison, maybe five miles away from me. If I would not do on the Internet on American and German sides over knowledge, I had no idea of it. The only thing I really directly mirbekomme these birds, are sagging because of the women of their clothes and this is compared to executions, of course, nothing. A few weeks ago there was a student demo, which I've also learned only later on the web. 30 people are sitting now in jail, some have their families have no idea where they are and how they are doing. A law student has died, probably as a result of torture, was buried as quickly as possible without notifying the family and who could then collect the death certificate. The following quotation from a speech given at the demo I would not hide from you:
"Today shows of fascism in the guise of religion. We feel the boots of fascists on our throats. But the rulers are wrong. It will not find it possible to break our resistance. "
The problem is that the resistance in width and has long been broken since the mid-80s when, after the revolution to pass in the different groups involved gradually were cleared of the Khomeini clique using mass murder out of his way. Since then the price to be paid for actual resistance must be at least outlined. I'm in Germany so much of the Iranian civil society read by NGOs, which would operate secretly subversive work. Perhaps they are there, but I do not see clear, I'm not here, of course, fully inside, but most people have of the organizations that I call them, have never heard of. Here there is mainly resignation and internal exile, or even real. I stand helpless before some degree the question of how to change here for something, so for the better, it is even worse, so here is constantly under Evidence provided.
elections are soon, so far, 2,000 reformist candidates were excluded. In some cases mullahs - who are a heterogeneous group and not all fascist, as suggested by the term "Mullastaat" - was not approved because they were un-Islamic. On the question of how one could be irreligious priest was told: In this country, no distinction between clergy and non-clergy made. If that's not so sad, you could laugh uproariously. The spectrum, which is the election is a joke, you can choose either radical Islamist vulgar - that the current government - or the reformers, moderates, pragmatists, or whatever you call it. As well as buying a pig in a sack, for now, Mr Rafsanjani is also part of this alliance, one of the richest and most influential men in the country, which in the past also like to know times to profile by contract killings. And as much as I would want the people here a somewhat more moderate government, for example, not - prohibits one of the most important feminist magazine, because it draw a black picture of Iran, it must be recognized but also simple - as happened two weeks ago that the reformers "rules" of 1997-2005 and have failed. This system with its Islamic and Islamist dogma and its undemocratic power centers - Experts, Supreme Leader, Guardian Council, foundations, Basij, Pasdaran, ... - is not reformed, the brutality of the system can reduce the maximum degree. "Governed" and therefore in quotation marks, the elected representatives must constantly anregieren against these centers and to prevent them often.
Sounds gloomy, and it is. I would appreciate feedback if you guys interested in this political stuff, so you would rather read about how drunk I fall somewhere inside or how some people are hung?
