Mehmooni zananeh at Nastarin's ...Feb.09.2013

Nastarin, my adorable pretty friend, photo: Shahrzad, FEB.09.2013

I thank you Nastarin to be Nastarin and such a wonderful friend, wife, mother, daughter, artist, naturally pleasant, fun and wise! 

I enjoyed your Mehmoony zananeh a lot, your home is a real home, like your self...

We missed Massoud, Anita, Ali and Daniel...and all those who were not at mehmooni...even though the men are not allowed to be there because it was a Women party!...the exception was Rayan who was the happiest little man among all these lovely ladies... It was the first women party out of country that I had been participating and it was lots of fun! 

I arrived late and I could just have our cute happy Rayan sometimes in my arms who seemed comfortable with me, I enjoyed holding him and dancing with him. His grand-ma brought him to his bed because he was robbing his eyes (too bad I missed taking pictures of happy mother and son, grand-mas and grand-son! 

It reminded me when I was a kid in Hamadan, my mom and friends had women parties and had always lots of fun! I was the only little girl who was invited to their parties and as their entertainer! I knew how to imitate Foroozan, the famous Iranian female actress who danced and pretended singing (it was Ahdieh who was singing instead of her), Katyoon and a few other singers and actors. Sometimes, they sand some sexy songs and said some sexy jokes, sometimes they made jokes about their husbands...asking me to put my hands on my ears! (I read my books without that much interest in what they were saying!). 

Last, night I realized that I was a part of the elder generation now and for sure, the younger ones present at the party had the same reactions as I had when I was their ages.

We enjoyed watching the great balady dancers, Bita and her young beautiful friends. No way to see anybody dancing better than the adorable young mother Bita who was teaching balady and did her own choreographies before she gets married and becomes a happy young mother. Bita is so full of life and energy of dance. 

Nastarin was pushed to danse ballady, too and
actually she did very well. Our singers, dancers and joke-tellers were great. I understand that women had fun when they are together, there is not so much of need to drink because women had all they need and are so communicative. Food was great as usual, Nastarin is a great cook and hostess, so 'nous nous sommes régalées!'. Delicious, merciiiiii! The party was fun because there were a few ladies who were entertaining...they were looking for a singer...and no one wanted to sing. I was thinking that I did not mind to sing because I was there and I am not the kind of person who can just seat down and do nothing.One of the ladies looked at me and said,'Shahrzad can sing'. I asked her,'how do you know'. She was very smart and said,'the way you are sitting down is the way a singer sits down!'. I laughed and said,'Ok, I will sing but I will sing a French song!'. One of the most wonderful thing was that we had a young amazing pianist among the ladies who know how to play some persian songs and so we sang together and enjoyed. I thought we could do a choir! The smart lady came and sat down besides me with the book of songs and was trying to encourage me to sing some of the persian songs. I loved the way she was trying to encourage me! I wanted since a few year find a possibiity to sing some of the tranditional persian songs. And among the ladies, we had the complementaries. Another smart lady came and sat besides me, she know all the songs and told me that she did not have a good voice (which is not generally true because the voice can be worked on)and with her I could sing most of the songs because she had the words and the melody and I just added my voice and vibrations on her voice and enjoyed having her besides. Afsaneh who was playing DAF is quite knowlegable about the songs and our pianist was her adorable sweet young sister in law whom I really enjoyed because she is herself, intelligent and deep!

Photo:Shahrzad, FEB.02.2013

And, it was a great pleasure to see you all amazing ladies and share singing, dancing, joking communicating, being in present...cheers, Shahrzad