#alburz

Hello lovely folks! Here I am on a rainy Friday in Tehran tending to my blogging duties. I’m forsaking you not, so forsake me not! The world is going coocoo

Let’s dive in. I didn’t make any new year resolutions for 2017 but with Norooz (the Persian new year) looming oh so close, I do feel the pull of “shaking the house” tradition of spring cleaning and clearing and creating closures for loose ends.  A “house” can have many literal and figurative meanings (not just our abode but our mind, our spirit, our thoughts, our relationships and all the places we store things and memories dear to us) and for me the strongest pull of organizing and cleaning up the clutter is to share long overdue stories and photos of my second epic visit to sojourn in Iran here with you. I am determined to pull this off and to avoid perfectionist traps that lead to paralysis, I’ll forego a clever or thematic structure of postings and stick to a loosey goosey photo essay format and start at the top of my iPhone album with whatever lies in wait for us there (never mind the season or relevance) and start sharing and purging away. Thus, it so happens that we commence with a photo-story of my encounter with Alborz High School.

The street sign for the high school is also called “Alborz”

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Alborz is the name of a glorious mountain range in Iran and it is also the name of one of the oldest and most illustrious high schools in Tehran. I wasn’t very familiar with Alborz High School, but in the course of Zeerak Media (the digital company I told you in an earlier post that started here in Tehran) working on a crowdfunding project on behalf of some Alborz alumni, I got to visit the school and get quite familiar with its past and current story and history.  I can’t possibly articulate the full account here, it’ll be too long and tedious, and there are many things that I’d love to articulate that for one reason or another must remain unsaid. Let’s let the pictures tell a thousand words.

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Speaking of pictures, the team and crew of the prominent Iranian documentary filmmakers Mehrdad Oskoyee shot a poignant film about Alborz High School and I got to witness a bit part of it on one of my visits.

This is a snapshot of 2 adorable boys leaving the gymnasium.