Charshanbeh soori
last night one of my labmates and I with her husband and their friends went to Sunny brook park for making fire and sing the traditional fire song;)..this was my first time that I was involved in making the fire in Canada;)we met two other guys who were starting the fire and we helped them with the recycled newspapers that my labmates and I brought from our lab as well as the methyl alcohol that we took to start up the fire;)!!it was pretty fast the way the whole thing started but the nicest thing of all was the time that it started to snow..snow on fire it's the most beautiful thing you can imagine..its the contrast between the natures of these two phenomena that makes it magnificiant...it was very cold but fire flames were making it really hot:)convection!!later I heard that it was -13C..anyways it was great ...some people would stop their cars and they would come down and said hi and jumped over it...we wanted to get some potatoes to bake it on the fire last night but forgot about it!!it would have been delicious..may be next year...the decipline was wonderful...since this year Police of Toronto knew about it before hand it was very very organized..I enjoyed it alot...they gave each car green papers at the entrance to the park on the saftey and what to do and not to do and then there were designated areas for fires and each part police would come and give out permits for fire making. Also there was a truck full of cutted woods that would provide fuel for each designated area!!can you beilieve it!!it was soooo organized..I loved it...and at the end you could call the fire trucks to come and put it out...the police were in their cars, on bike and on horse...the ones on horse were the funny ones..the horses are sooooooo big if I stand near them I wouldn't exceed the legs!!!anyways they had signals at the back of the horse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!for signaling wher they were walking!!it was so funny I have seen it before but everytime I see it, it makes me laugh again..I heard they bet, if the horse can jump over one of the big fires and the horse won the bet;)...this Charshanbe soori was great...I got to meet new people....and after that we went to eat some kebab ofcourse;)...really really good...I hope this coming year is as good and fun as charshanbe soori was:)