In this episode, Omid Khanian offers insight into Nowruz, the Persian New year, and what it means to him and his family. If you have two minutes, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, and subscribe so you get all of our new episodes. 

 

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Hi my name is Omid Khanian I am a junior at University high school in today's episode I am going to talk about Norooz. Norooz happened this year on March 20th 2022 @ 8:33am and when you here like an persian clarinet its is norooz you will hear it in The radio in 670 Am KIRN radio in your car. Mostly nooroz is a persian new year and it is the first day of spring to. My favorite moment about norooz is That me and my family we go to a persian restaurant which this year we went In Darya Restaurant near Uni and there were alot of people celebrating norooz and saying. EID SHOMO MOBARAK. Which means Happy New Year, Happy Norooz. And also my other favorite moment about norooz is that unfortunately my Grandmother wasn’t here for the 2nd time for norooz cause unfortunately she passed away on Febuary 17th 2021 at 11:18pm and whenever it is norooz i go to her house and she will greet me and give me hugs and kisses saying to me HAPPY NOROOZ OMID JOON and she will do the Persian Kell like LELELELELELE and also she will give me $20, or $50 dollar bill (which that is called Eide) and she will put Persian music. Before when my grandmother got cancer yep she got cancer in 2018 of may. Every norooz she will invite us and put some persian music cause she had CDs and a 2000’s cd player and when the cd player is playing she will sing in her head. So that was my favorite moment about norooz. There will be a table and it is called haft-sin. If you don’t know what a haft-sin is it is like there is a mirror with a green that looks like a grass that is long. And there is candles. And also a fish bowl and there is fish inside the fish bowl.On the 7th day of the norooz on March 26th, there is going to be a norooz festival in Persian square in Westwood it is near UCLA and also it is near to my Place and i live like 4 miles from there to my house. And they have the haft-sin and Persian Music, Dancing and all the stores were open and also you can get Persian CDs there is a store called music box and you could get CDs. The CDs that i get is Andy Madadian cause that is my favorite Persian singer and the very first album from him was Platinum it was released in 2004. And also there is a Persian ice cream called Bastani Soltani it is like a Pistacio ice cream and a white rice lavender ice cream it is soo good you have to try it. You all should come Next sunday on the 26th of March come to westwood blvd and ohio Ave for the norooz festival. Hopefully one day in uni we all could celebrate norooz all together and put some persian songs/ norooz songs etc. I recommend going on spoify and type persian music / nooroz popular music and also you should listen to Andy Norooz on Spotify.The last thing that we do in norooz is that we eat Persian Food Like Koobideh Kabob, White rice, fish, chicken kabob. And best restaurant to go in Raffi Place in Glendale Cause they have the best juicy Kabob and it is so tasty.Thank You So much for listening to this podcast.