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Spring break has come at last. I'm up in Forest Grove, spent the afternoon taking pictures of ducks (I know, right?) and spent the evening kicking it with my brother and sister-in-law. It's been a whirlwind of a week as far as my Spring Breaks go. Usually I'm stuck in Corvallis working, while my roommates are paragliding over the ocean in Jamaica, or something like that. I guess spending an afternoon stalking certain water foul isn't the most exciting thing I've done, but it was extremely satisfying for some reason.

I also spent time with Google Translate and some Iranan blogs.  A friend of mine had once told me to get to know a country, read it's blogs. After hearing about Iran again in the news, I realized I knew absolutely nothing about the country. So I checked out some blogs. Some were pretty anti-establishment such as The Rotten Gods, and some were educational, The Land of Persia, and some were pretty normal Adventures of Mr. Behi (these are ones I found in English). Overall, I saw a country with certainly more pressing issues than ours, but in general, people lived a similar life. In one blog, a college student was venting his frustration that he hadn't got his essay's done yet. I can relate.