Dancing on the Bus

I took a trip on my own from Tehran to the Caspian Sea. It is an all day trip by bus. I purposely did not take a tour bus so that I would not have a "giude". I was the only non-Iranian on the bus and so had lots of polite looks and stares. Once the bus got rolling, out of the city, they cranked up the cappy tape player with dance music. Everyone got up one at a time to the front of the bus to introduce themselves. I went last, introduced myself all in Farsi. I made instant friends with everyone. For the rest of the trip we all danced in the middle of the bus, boys and girls all. Every time the bus rolled in to a city, they all sat back down and the women covered their hair back up.