Gode Nyheder på Persisk

“In Iran it is tradition to stay in the village you grow up and take care of your parents when they get older, so it affects me that I have moved away. 

Mojdeh means good news. 

I am originally from Iran and came to Denmark to finish my p.h.d. 

I was happy, but because I wanted to continue to work in the field that I do, some politics back in Iran came in the way of the science I was pursuing when working in dentistry.

As a dentist it is important to understand the physical pains of your patient in order to help them.

If they for example experience a lot of headaches, you need to understand where its coming from.

In my work I get to help people with their pain, and I have the power to reduce it. I love that I get to help people. 

After moving to Denmark, I was very homesick. Back in Kermal, the city in Iran where I grew up, was my parents and my family. 

I have always thought of myself as a strong person, so I said to myself that I could not be sad. But you can never replace your parents. I missed the city, the streets, the people.

I think moving to Denmark with my husband was an unconcious decision to experience a new life. My Husband and I met in Iran, we are from the same village, and he lived 10 years in Malaysia but came back to Kermal afterwards.

But finally, we decided it was time to try something new and we are happy with the decision.

When taking my final exam in oral medicine, I experienced a lot of anxiety. I was studying so many hours and couldn’t sleep.

I also had many nightmares about the exam, even after I had passed it. Gradually it got better though without me having to do anything about it. 

I just became a mother and the best thing about it is to be able to give another person a life and raise them with the insights you have. 

Later tonight, we are traveling to Hamburg and then back to Iran to visit family.

The thing I am most looking forward to is to see my parents and sit in my childhood home and eat my mother’s good food.

I have been lucky in this life that the challenges I have faced are not as bad as many others.”