Two weeks ago I went to a boy’s summer camp as a volunteer to help them. Actually one of my friends, Jake, has been going there for three years and this year he also brought me to there. I was there for two days, it was fun. Camp was beside a lake near the Red Deer river in the south west of Sunder.
During the time which I was there a lot of things reminded me a chapter of a book which I read about three years ago. The book’s name is Funny in Farsi, it is been written by a woman who has spend her childhood in USA as an emigrant. She has an incredible story telling ability and a very funny sense of hummers in her writings. Those make Firoozeh Dumas’s books really interesting and amusing. I am wondering that weather her books are also interesting for people not from her home country or it is just wonderful for readers familiar with that culture. I will be really happy if somebody help me with that, although I am going to ask my “foreign”friends to read it.
Anyway, being in the camp and remembering a chapter of her book about her awful experience in the summer camp made me to read that book for the second time, this time in the original language. I really enjoy it, sometimes which I am sad, and coincidentally in these weeks I almost always am, it cheers me up. Every night when I start reading, at the beginning I think that I am not in its mood, but after 10 minuets I found myself laughing loudly!!!
I will write a full post about both of her books, Funny in Farsi and Laughing without an accent when I read them. Meanwhile take a look at her website and watch this interview:
