Journal entry #10

[Maria Eugenia Riande]

The presenatations I got to see today were very interesting because they reflect all the effect put in through the semester. It was very interesting to learn about other cultures. I have to say I loved the turkish food. I also found very interesting teh presentation on the tea because its such a different concept of what we are used to, how much work they put in to sell tea around 16 hours a day and they just earn around 7 US dollars. Also the fact that people live in such conditions is very sad. What I found msot interesting about doing this presentation was that in my personal experience I learned words in persian that I would have never learned before even as I was learning the language. The terms like Parseh or the mythological figure of Jamshid including the Iranian New year word, "Nowruz". I really enjoyed the presentation about the hamam because it reminded me alo about the roman baths, being a center of social and political gatherings.