Navro'z and spontaneous lessons
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merchimerchYesterday Malika opa appeared in my apartment for a spontaneous lesson and brought one of her star students for a spontaneous interview. I wasn't even there when she arrived and came home from grocery shopping with a case of the runs, so I got to spend half the lesson time in the toilet. It was very embarrassing, but productive (well aside from the time spent in the toilet).
The interview was really fun - I love interview 2 people at once, you get to see and hear a dynamic that is completely missing in 1 on 1 interviews. It's also interesting with Malika opa, since she has the teacher-student dynamic with both the other student and me.
Navro'z (Islamic New Year) was interesting. I went to the celebrations in Babur Park which had a very international mood to them - lots of dance troups from the different ethnicities living in Uzbekistan (Korean, Russian, Polish, German, etc). Of course Uzbek dancers and musicians got top billing, but it was odd to me to see a supposedly Islamic holiday get celebrated as a kind of international day. Apparently we missed the biggest celebration of Navro'z which was at the Halqlar Do'stligi concert hall - there were lots of pop singers lip synching there, and booths, etc. I think every park had at least some kind of festive carnival like thing set up. There was one in the area near our house that R went to - it was quite chinzy he said, but enjoyed looking around.
The interview was really fun - I love interview 2 people at once, you get to see and hear a dynamic that is completely missing in 1 on 1 interviews. It's also interesting with Malika opa, since she has the teacher-student dynamic with both the other student and me.
Navro'z (Islamic New Year) was interesting. I went to the celebrations in Babur Park which had a very international mood to them - lots of dance troups from the different ethnicities living in Uzbekistan (Korean, Russian, Polish, German, etc). Of course Uzbek dancers and musicians got top billing, but it was odd to me to see a supposedly Islamic holiday get celebrated as a kind of international day. Apparently we missed the biggest celebration of Navro'z which was at the Halqlar Do'stligi concert hall - there were lots of pop singers lip synching there, and booths, etc. I think every park had at least some kind of festive carnival like thing set up. There was one in the area near our house that R went to - it was quite chinzy he said, but enjoyed looking around.
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Date: 2005-03-30 07:32 pm (UTC)More can be read about it here (http://members.tripod.com/%7Ekhorasan/Miscellaneous/Nowruz.htm).
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Date: 2005-03-31 04:15 am (UTC)Everyone I know has told me it was "Islamic New Year," and I take this to mean that even if that isn't how it was treated historically, and Arab Muslims don't practice it, it is certainly being expereinced as such here.