My name is Robert and I started this blog for a good reason, I am a father of three kids and three wife's (2X wife's)plus a long trip from middle east to USA.
I was always hopping that I could do something with my life, but as I grew and got older it became more apparent to write about my life plus my long journey to USA. I was 13 and my father had just past away, that was very hard on our family, as a young boy I started working in a boutique and the shop was owned by my best friends father, as far as work I tried a lot of jobs and the most interesting part is that I liked to take photos and liked it a lot. As the years past and my mom struggle to work and support me and my two sisters we decided to leave to country for a better life in USA, the plan was to leave Iran with bus through bazargan route to Turkey get a visa for east Germany (DDR) then) to Berlin(West Germany). As we pass through Turkey with the bus right after the border we were pulled over by Turkish police officers then questioned if we are Armenians(I am Christian Orthodox Gregorian. "OK" lets go back and see what year this was happening, 1979, 31 years ago when I was 13.
In 1984-85 my mother purchased the bus tickets and we were off to Turkey.
After getting to Turkey we were first in Ankara then Istanbul which my mom had a friend who owned a hotel which we stayed for almost 9 months, the European side was amazing we went out almost every night to dance and party, at nights on the way back to the hotel in the taxi cab we would get pulled over and were questioned by the police, it was a great experience knowing we could get arrested any second just because we are Armenians. OK lets go back and get to know the Armenians, 1915 Armenian genocide by Ottoman Empire , that was the main reason they didn't like Armenians.
Anyways, after staying for 9 months we were told that we can get a visa to East Berlin by a friend who knew a person that worked in the East Germany embassy, After waiting for 2 days an we were told d paying over 100,000 lira we were granted a 30 hour visa and the next day bought the tickets.
Continue tomorrow November 4, 2010
Anyways, after staying for 9 months we were told that we can get a visa to East Berlin by a friend who knew a person that worked in the East Germany embassy, After waiting for 2 days an we were told d paying over 100,000 lira we were granted a 30 hour visa and the next day bought the tickets.
Continue tomorrow November 4, 2010
