a lot has happened i suppose in the past week. i was in the hospital because i was dehydrated, had an IV stuck in me and got all better. on friday, the group left for artsakh. it's about an eight hour ride. we stoped in gandzassar on the way there, and some other place, as well as shushi on the way back. i have to say artsakh is very beautiful. the mountains are so so so high, you feel like you can touch the moon. at night if you listen closely you can hear dogs barking from afar, they sound like wolves and it was very nice. the moon shines so brightly, i've never seen that before. it was also ara's birthday, and we celebrated with cake and champagne, and a drinking night and a huge pillow fight at the hotel nairi (we were pretty much the only ones there, and yes that is what it was called!).
we got back yesterday and went to a latino night at a hotel, i wish i knew they had a pool because people were dancing and swimming. i haven't been swimming yet, and i don't have a tan at all except for on my feet, and you can see the line of my flip-flops. ew. i barely went into the tv station last week, i don't really care to at all. i just have to go in to give the der hair his questions.. setta leaves on wednesday. :(
i had a bit of a breakdown yesterday. i think there have been too many ups and downs since i got here, and certain people in the group are so... such despicable people that i just don't see why i'd even talk to them at all at this point.
i'm going to be staying in france for two weeks i think. marie-eve is most likely not coming back to montreal ever. she's starting a life there for herself, and i am so happy for her. so i want to see her since i don't know when i'll see her next.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
one rohypnol on the rocks, please!
this week-end we went to ashtarak, oshakan, garni and geghard. we mainly just saw khatchkar's and visited churches. if there's one thing about armenia i love it's the suburbs/country. that makes it worthwhile. random people i meet keep asking me about what i think of yerevan and i feel very "meh" about it so far. but the countryside is breathtaking, and the people are something else. yesterday we got to talk to the organizers about what we think of the program. it took a while... i think we got through to them.
i've been getting a little bit more alone time, clearing my head out. it has done me good.
also, my plans have changed, again (i think - nothing is set in stone, ever). i might be going to georgia for a few days with some birthright people around the time i was supposed to leave yerevan. and i still plan on going to paris for a few days. i have no news from marie-eve for now since she's digging on an island so that, too, is still up in the air.
sinon... for once i'm not thinking too far ahead. i'm not even thinking at all of when i'll be coming back to montreal, i'm just letting things flow and that's kind of new for me. even thinking just a few weeks ahead instead of months is a big improvement. it's almost as though i've forgotten what's at home, what i'll have when i get back (including comms and all that jazz that i am so excited for), and it's not even because i've got so much here. it just feels better. jess, you should join me, fuck the mortgages and babies, we can do without, we should just think as far as the desert and balls of string and cut-offs.
pa, why not go out into the suburbs? van, thanks for taking care of bitch!
i've been getting a little bit more alone time, clearing my head out. it has done me good.
also, my plans have changed, again (i think - nothing is set in stone, ever). i might be going to georgia for a few days with some birthright people around the time i was supposed to leave yerevan. and i still plan on going to paris for a few days. i have no news from marie-eve for now since she's digging on an island so that, too, is still up in the air.
sinon... for once i'm not thinking too far ahead. i'm not even thinking at all of when i'll be coming back to montreal, i'm just letting things flow and that's kind of new for me. even thinking just a few weeks ahead instead of months is a big improvement. it's almost as though i've forgotten what's at home, what i'll have when i get back (including comms and all that jazz that i am so excited for), and it's not even because i've got so much here. it just feels better. jess, you should join me, fuck the mortgages and babies, we can do without, we should just think as far as the desert and balls of string and cut-offs.
pa, why not go out into the suburbs? van, thanks for taking care of bitch!
Friday, July 4, 2008
manuscript book
i should probably mention that there is a high chance i will not come back to montreal on the date i was supposed to. marie-eve is going to be in europe until the sixteenth of august, and i leave yerevan on the third to go to prague, and i might take a train/bus/cheap flight from there to someplace in france, where she is.
speaking of france, i have just et maria, who is basically neighbours with alec (my uncle). she is armenian-lebanese, living in the 11th arrondissement in paris. she is part of the armenia birthright program, which is similar to AGBU's Yerevan Summer Internship Program. The difference though is that they look for their own volunteer work, and they don't stay in one house. they stay with native armenians or rent an appartment, and they have a possibility to be reimbursed for their ticket or something, i think. also they don't have a fucking curfew, and their schedule is not as packed as ours, they can go off to gumri or kharabagh or wherever, whenever they want. i've met a few of the birthright volunteers through the women's ressource center. tonight we are all meeting up for a dance or something... kind of like high school, if you think of it.
papi, i read your e-mail about vartavants and vartavar, you're so funny. khentalen maradz eyi, penav nouyn pane che. but thanks for the reminder about vartavants :)
speaking of france, i have just et maria, who is basically neighbours with alec (my uncle). she is armenian-lebanese, living in the 11th arrondissement in paris. she is part of the armenia birthright program, which is similar to AGBU's Yerevan Summer Internship Program. The difference though is that they look for their own volunteer work, and they don't stay in one house. they stay with native armenians or rent an appartment, and they have a possibility to be reimbursed for their ticket or something, i think. also they don't have a fucking curfew, and their schedule is not as packed as ours, they can go off to gumri or kharabagh or wherever, whenever they want. i've met a few of the birthright volunteers through the women's ressource center. tonight we are all meeting up for a dance or something... kind of like high school, if you think of it.
papi, i read your e-mail about vartavants and vartavar, you're so funny. khentalen maradz eyi, penav nouyn pane che. but thanks for the reminder about vartavants :)
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