Hello It's Wednesday afternoon, which means the weekend has just begun and will in a few hours with a sit-ushered in the salon. Until that time but still have some time and I do not really what degree know what to do with it, I'll bring a couple of times here now, things at the language I've always pushed ahead of me or forgotten. But there's once again anticipate it to a short trip report.
"There's so the only here!" Wannabe tourism on the Caspian Sea
Last weekend, I moved with Paddy, and also a British friend of his to the Caspian Sea. Was not all that easy because I within one week, two copies of my Passes have messy, which could worsen in fact the most difficult erschleimte good relationship with the dreaded director of the institute well. But I'll open low profile and so far there's still no complaints.
Anyway, we were in Chalus and Rasht, two major cities on the western section of the Caspian Sea. In both places, it turned out relatively quickly that the city itself hergibt not much, so we went rumgetourt in the area and that has really paid off. At times I felt almost like home: village, greenery, not much going on, all flat, cows and rain.
The places that had to be visited were actually rather moderate, because crowded and disgusting artificial, but so what have the people here hold most of bock. Once we were driven by our taxi driver and owner in one person at a forest that was described by him with the words in the title referred to. Well, I was the first time in six months in a forest and I enjoyed it very much, but it was just then but just a normal forest, one finds so in Tornesch. Most tourists who travel to the Caspian Sea are holding an Arab or Tehran, may therefore not surprising that a little profanity and some rain forest are inflated to a big deal. And the beaches - if you want to call it that - are also quite catastrophic, simply trashed because only brutal. Middle East stop.
The natives and I recently
much to me, that there really is a whole lot of things that are very different from Germany, but which I perceive as a normal part already. Much of it is here I think has not been described, I will then make up time now, while it will go mainly to everyday behaviors. So, just randomly go on it:
People throw out their garbage wherever they go. So really all into the sea, others out at the feet or from the car. Ecologically, this is not really matter here anyway because nothing is recycled, it is testimony by an incredible ignorance of the many street cleaners who may sweep up the stuff then. Which are almost all Afghan or Central Asian origin and earn a little ridiculous, but even that will be naturally assumed here because it is the prevailing chauvinism of course, very consistent.
Just as a man, you will continually touched by other men, even if you do not know them. For some people one has really ever a hand to the body, a begrabbelt somehow meant nice. This is me at the start went really really on my nerves, but I've now largely used to it. Men who walk hand in hand one also sees the Often. Man (n) says goodbye to good friends also like to kiss cheeks by, also because I got used to. In Kerman but then it came to rape-like scenes, as I passed the entire male half of a large family a kiss - usually on the mouth.
Tehran is known to be quite overcrowded. Even worse is that most people here are slow walkers and Imwegrumsteher worst are couleur. Some people simply run in a zig-zag stagger or permanent. But worst of old women in chador when three of them go side by side, the sidewalk is tight and you dare not, of course, to the bump or something. The Iranians make
Smalltalk itself in terms of German housewives to chat about the weather, in the shade. Weather, traffic and family are the issues in that order. They say how bad the traffic was but now, as if / not even to know. " And it is also three times identical sets raises his head to find strange without it. The in-
Tarof being informally consolidated, to the ridiculous increase in (pseudo-) politeness is probably many a term that could also just write a book. One of the funniest resulting phenomena is that front doors are often clusters of people, because so the other must bide and consequently all else fails.
As a foreigner, directs you straight in the province of great attention. People who go by only one to ask, where does one without the answer then to comment in any way. I wonder what they use is the knowledge of the nationality of a passerby in coping with their lives? Well, probably they can chat with the neighbors at night when the weather is phenomenal skip and report instead of her encounter with the alien. Otherwise, bite Iranians who want to chat with one, often find brutally simple. Even unsubtle gestures, but now that you like too would have his quiet, then do not help, we hope to be simple, that is a bit dull.
That was once a naturally not nearly complete and a staggering list of very ugly, I will probably continue at some point.
"I think of the workers, I'm just shocked."
I move here, as in Germany, almost exclusively in circles of people who study or have the time did. Sure, you're the same age and has just more talking points, is still of course a pity, because you get only a small part of social reality made aware. I have over the months in the newspapers and read a lot of grad a few days I've thought about the subject workers (community) and trade unions on the Internet researching.
is with numbers and statistics that here always so ne thing because every Tom, Dick and Kuntz his own out there and possibly altered in a way he wants them, nevertheless: A / D work (in) earned, on average, probably as 200 euros a month . With two such salaries could be at least in the south of Tehran life was fair enough, but it gets difficult when inflation - as last year - twice as high as the wage increase. Especially for basic food and rent, there are some extreme price increases.
unemployment is probably so between 10 and 15 percent, but there is a high hidden unemployment, as many people earn in a job is not enough to live on. Unemployment benefits, pensions, insurance, etc. there is something for most or only in a ridiculous extent. A major problem is that wages are often paid late, in extreme cases, like time and a half years too late. Good thing the people working at least in Tehran very chillig is there are in the retail formats usually two or three people for a job that has to do in Germany, a man alone. I strongly doubt that the factories even so, I was not yet in any and knows it is not the end.
There is so pseudo-unions, which are completely under government control. It is but fought anyway, last year there were probably several hundred strikes, but they were not because of existing structures is very limited and mostly "wild". The union movement has exposed considerable repression, ranging up to executions. In recent years, there were major strikes by Tehran's bus drivers and bakers, who could achieve a certain degree of international attention. Unfortunately, little improvement could be enforced, instead, some activists still imprisoned.
A glaring example is a tire factory near Tehran, the people over there on strike and demonstrate because they wanted their wages paid. Subsequently, State riot and easily deployed by a thousand people have taken and held for two days in a place unknown to the families. Previously, firefighters were ordered to sprinkle (as yet) protesting workers with hot water. This was rejected, so are still some fire fighters detained.
And in all this one must remember always that the people have elected a president who has scored points with the promise that "the revenue from oil sales on the table of the common man to bring". This same man has now a few days ago in a speech the presence of an "economic mafia" identified and criticized what even (censored) out in the local papers for discussion. So there is a group of people, the other in what sounds like a criminal exploits and take care of their life a mess? Oops, and in capitalism? Can you even believe it. And then as president of the state, which guarantees the continued existence of that very system to give something of themselves, well, that would - again - funny if it were not so sad.
All this with Islam (ism) do nothing, that's just capitalism without protection laws or organization for those who make their work that the shop will run on. Not that I now Hartz4 or DGB regarded as steps towards the emancipation of mankind would, but here one would have to stop, unfortunately even be more happy about it.
So, well, now I have it once again not managed to write something on the national psyche, which I had planned. Another time. I fly by the way now at 15.6. back to Hamburg. See you then.
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