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ashiyan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:24:26 +0000

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ashiyan — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:08:20 +0000

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Summer 2009 in NYC

ashiyan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:59:18 +0000

IM spending the summer this year volunteering for 3 months at the Bahai International Community offices at the UN in New York doing IT projects!

Back to work

ashiyan — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:51:45 +0000

Back to work at OUP this week and doing BIHE teaching. Will have a week off from OUP at the beginning of June to do ‘People and Security’ assignment. Also, working out summer plans as i write!

Pas lectures

ashiyan — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:49:04 +0000

People and security lectures all this week!

ashiyan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:34:28 +0000

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Long time no blog

ashiyan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:44:28 +0000

Its been almost a year since my last blog. Naw Ruz is coming up again. Im still working for BIHE as an online tefl-tutor part-time. But my main day job is as a freelance multimedia tester at Oxford University Press. Im still studying part-time towards the MSC Software Engineering at Oxford too. I recently went on pilgrimage for 9 days to Haifa, Isreal and had an awesome experience. You can see the photos on facebook (if youre my friend there). Thats all for now – Happy Naw Ruz 2009AD/166BE!

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ashiyan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:42:26 +0000

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Happy Bahai New Year! and update!

ashiyan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:04:36 +0000

March 21st was bahai New Year and i was in Haifa, Israel at the Bahai World Centre that day. So, Happy Bahai New Year (Naw Ruz) everyone! Since my last blog i have started studying again, leaving my TEFL diploma for a while and now studying a MSC in Software Engineering at Oxford University, UK. I visited family in USA in November and December last year, attended a young peoples forum in Czech republic and UK National bahai Festival in Warwick University, UK. I thoroughly recommend checking out www.myspace.com/dawnbreakercollective

Also, i am still working as a TEFL tut0r with BIHE and have started a part-time weekend job at EF capers Bistro in Oxford.

So, as i mentioned i was at the Bahai World centre, Haifa for a brief visit up to and including Bahai New Year, and been on 2 Bahai teaching projects in Oxford and Coventry the past month or so. Now back to studying for the MSC, writing my assignment, working weekends in the Bistro and waiting for the next BIHE semester to start on 21st April.

Sorry its been so long since ive written! – Ash

Exciting new BIHE job and TEFL diploma

ashiyan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:42:49 +0000

My new contract, working 25 hours per week, for the Bahai Institute for Higher Education, started on Oct 1st. Im teaching English as a foreign language, fulltime, to Bahai students in Iran(these students are denied the right to higher education by the Iranian government). All the teaching is done online, which in my case means marking assignments submitted to the BIHE moodle platform. I also meet the students through skype and its a real privelege to meet these hardworking and inspiring students. At the same time, im trying to get started on a TEFL(teaching english as a foreign language) Diploma, which basically involves up to 2 years of fulltime study by distance with Trinity College, London. In addition, im looking for an extra parttime job, maybe 15 hours a week or so to pay off overdraft and students loans (‘pay the bills’ as my Dad,whose house ive been living in for the past 10 months, puts it). Chinese studies is on theback-burner at the mo.