My mom, you could say was an immigrant moving from Baku to Rasht, and my Grandpa from dad side immigrated from Georgia (gorjestan). Never seen any of my grand dads.  Only saw my blond grandmother from my mom's side. 

We are 6 kids.  3 white (I mean whilte; blue/green eyes and light hair); and 3 Indian looking (LOL  . ).  Two of my sibilings (older sisters) moved to USA in 1972.  And then I joined them in holloween of 1977 at age 15. 

My father, somewhat chapi (I say somewhat because he was pro West and admired their advancement in medicine, and industry), ... he worked his ass off to send all the 6 kids abroad.  He finally settled and retired in Sweden.  

I went to school in Rasht Elementry School: Mehr Aayeen, Middle School: Keyvan, and 1 year of high school: Shahpoor; and 3 years of high school in Louisville, Ky: Thomas Jefferson High School. 

Played soccer in school in Iran and and in the US. Tried out as a kicker for High School football team. Was not easy to put a ball that does not look like a ball 30 meters into the uprights. 

Love Iran and Love America. 

Did my ancestory.com and also 23 & me.  81% Caucasion, 10% Anatolian, and yes 9% Eastern Europe Jew.  My parents and grandparents were all born muslim. I have no idea where that jewish percentage comes from. 

There were no signs of jewish in my kids 23 & me testing. So could be an anomaly.

 

That pretty much wraps me up. 

I had a very interesting childhood as far as traveling and seeing the world. My parents were the first among relatives to get a college degree. My dad worked for the bank and my mom taught geology 6 tabiei in high school. they put me in Andisheh (Don Bosco) school. Same school where Firouz Naderi went and i was also classmate with Omid Kordestani the google guy (here in college as well). Don Bosco was a catholic priests school but 80% of the students were muslims but we had many Armenians, Jews and Assyrians as well. The school academically was average (nothing like Alborz) but we spent half a day studying variety of subjects in English. My young parents wanted to see the world so they took me everywhere with them. My uncle was a student in West Germany before I was even born so we would go to Germany every summer instead of shomal but we did not have enough money. I have traveled to Germany as a child three times on a bus (TBT), train & private car or a combination of the three. We would send a small amount of money ahead of time so that my uncle could buy a beat up VW which was often broke down and I remember vividly being towed all over place. Small VW could not carry 3 of us and the luggage comfortably so we had stuff on barband I used to sit on top of a suitcase inside the car. I don't think there is a country in Europe that I have not seen including Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and East Germany. Later in life I really appreciated that my parents did all that even though on the surface it seemed stupid and not economically wise. Any way good times during childhood 

I am not sure may be before this. Here is the original version with Shohreh & Farrokhzad in Iran