1- The classes are colorful. You see students in various colors; I mean different color in hairs, clothes, skins, eyes and even wristbands and necklaces. It's not comparable to any class in Iran, as most of them are packed with black scarfs and black clothes. I now can feel the lack of energy and joy in Iranian colorless classes.
2- Budapest is really beautiful. The city is like a live museum.
3- The day before yesterday there was a gay parade here in Budapest. I could not join the parade because the police had blocked all the streets. Well, as it's just 5 days that I have left Iran, I quickly remembered the streets of Tehran. So when the police started coming towards the crowd I started running! I thought that maybe they were going to harm us! But everybody- Yes! Everybody! - was standing still! So I decreased my speed, stopped and looked at the crowd strangely. I realized that the police were not there to harm, but to protect!
4- Today we went to an archivium which actually belongs to CEU. It holds documents of human rights violations in Eastern Europe like mass graves, genocides, etc. It was not that much shocking for me because the same things are now happening in my country in front of the eyes of living people.
5- Most of the students here are from Eastern Europe so they have many things to share like related histories and experiences. As a result, they can understand each other much better than I do. Maybe SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), which I was accepted there as well, was a better choice for me. But I did not have that much money to afford.
6- So far I know that in gender studies we have students from US, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Ethiopia, Hungary, Serbia, Poland, Bosnia, Azerbaijan, Israel, and some more. We are approximately 40 students from more than 20 countries.
That's it for today.
