Similar experience

While I was reading this book “Funny In Farsi”, I missed my father who is in India. I also had a similar experience like Firoozeh’s uncle when he came in the United States. When I came here, I started eating cans, frozen, and microwave food and trying all the different nationalities of foods without being worried about gaining weight because in India I eat home made food, and sometimes Chinese food. After few months I noticed my Indian dresses were tight on me and I never went back to my original weight. The chapter “A nose by any other name,” is totally like my own experience. I remember my parents always wanted to give me nose plastic surgery because my nose was ugly, but my father only has enough money to educate and support his four children, not for my nose. When I grew up I told my father one day I am going to have plastic surgery. In Indian culture people look at the face with perfect a nose. Even when my mom wants me to pierce my nose as Indian girls do I didn’t wanted to because then it would showed how ugly my nose is. When I came here and got married with my ugly nose, I told my husband I wanted to get fix my nose. He didn’t agree with that and said you have a beautiful nose and you didn’t need any surgery. After reading this, I learned that however God made me, I am happy with that. I also experienced filling a form to get an army t-shirt and later I received calls to join in army. The book activities were fun and I felt like I was in school. It took a lot of creativity to make those posters, like gathering pictures to post on it. I learned a lot about the author and her love about her family. Now I am waiting for her next book to read.