Last night Mohammad's cousins and I went to a nice coffee shop where I had a lovely milkshake and cheese sandwich. The sandwich said it was ham, but apparently ham in Iran is actually made from beef (non pork ham?? So strange!).
This morning Madar-joon, Mohammad's aunt, Mohammad's grandma, and I went out around the city. We went to Imam Zadi mosque which is solo beautiful inside! The walls and ceilings are all mirrors and it just looks solo beautiful! The lady in the mosque asked me to wear a chador and then complemented me on how beautiful I look in a chador. We found a man who spoke some English and he described to me what was unique about this mosque. He was so excited to learn that I am from America and he kept apologizing for his broken English.
Next stop was another less ornate but much more crowded mosque. This mosque was full of women and girls! It was so crowded that it was difficult to walk around. Inside two girls were brave enough to begin speaking with me in English and they were so excited! A real American here in their city! They asked questions like: "Can you wear hijab in America?" "Do you like Iran?" "What do Americans think of Persians?"
We also visited a little shop where I bumped into a Swede on vacation and a couple from Portugal! I was super excited to see tourists and practically ran toward them smiling and shouting loudly in English. Both were so happy to meet another foreigner too!!! All three spoke English very well and it was so nice to have some conversations in English. The Portuguese couple were extremely friendly and wanted a photo with me, so I called over madar-joon and we took some pictures. They were a little overly excited for the opportunity to take photos of women in chador... they even took pictures of madar-joon driving her car in chador! How surprising to see two other blonds in Yazd on the same day!
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This morning Madar-joon, Mohammad's aunt, Mohammad's grandma, and I went out around the city. We went to Imam Zadi mosque which is solo beautiful inside! The walls and ceilings are all mirrors and it just looks solo beautiful! The lady in the mosque asked me to wear a chador and then complemented me on how beautiful I look in a chador. We found a man who spoke some English and he described to me what was unique about this mosque. He was so excited to learn that I am from America and he kept apologizing for his broken English.
Next stop was another less ornate but much more crowded mosque. This mosque was full of women and girls! It was so crowded that it was difficult to walk around. Inside two girls were brave enough to begin speaking with me in English and they were so excited! A real American here in their city! They asked questions like: "Can you wear hijab in America?" "Do you like Iran?" "What do Americans think of Persians?"
We also visited a little shop where I bumped into a Swede on vacation and a couple from Portugal! I was super excited to see tourists and practically ran toward them smiling and shouting loudly in English. Both were so happy to meet another foreigner too!!! All three spoke English very well and it was so nice to have some conversations in English. The Portuguese couple were extremely friendly and wanted a photo with me, so I called over madar-joon and we took some pictures. They were a little overly excited for the opportunity to take photos of women in chador... they even took pictures of madar-joon driving her car in chador! How surprising to see two other blonds in Yazd on the same day!
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Me in a borrowed chador inside the mirrored mosque
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The walls of the mosque
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as you can see, there are mirror tiles everywhere
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I admit, I am still an under-cover mullah photographer
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Me and my sweet cousin's precious daughter at the fancy coffee shop
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Madar-joon and me with the Portuguese tourists
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