I woke up in a panic this morning. Five days left before I leave Stepanavan. Two of those days will be spent doing a camp in a village near here, so in truth, we’re talking three short days here before I cram everything I own, and something things Peace Corps owns, into a taxi and [...]
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thank you; your gift is a rabbit-eared family
Posted in armenia, culture, friends, holiday, landfamily, milestones, moving, my town, peace corps volunteers, tagged armenia, community, easter, easter in armenia, friends, herbs bread, into the wild, jingyalov hats, kids, leaving, living abroad, milestones, nardi, peace corps, peace corps armenia, peace corps volunteers, personal, photography, travel, volunteering on July 6, 2011 | 9 Comments »
another new year in armenia
Posted in armenia, food, friends, holiday, milestones, my town, peace corps volunteers, toasts, tradition, winter, tagged friends, holiday, life, living abroad, new year, new years, personal, small towns, snow, tradition, travel, weather, winter, winter wonderland on January 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
On the last night of 2009 I was sitting with my best Peace Corps friend, Zoë, talking late into the evening about New Year’s resolutions. We almost missed the New Year, and with moments to spare we ran outside with pots and pans to ring in the new year with a metallic clamor. This year [...]
i’ve landed home
Posted in armenia, friends, holiday, peace corps volunteers, travel, tagged armenia, christmas, new friends, roadtrip on December 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Shnor havor Amenor yev Surb Tsnude! Happy New Year! It’s been a couple of weeks, I know. But I have a good excuse. I have had arguably the best collection of days yet in Armenia. They were not the typical, wonderful Peace Corps lot though they did include visits with Americans and Armenians and cross-cultural [...]
yeah, i got things
Posted in animals, friends, holiday, my town, winter, tagged all i want for christmas, christmas, facial hair, horses, khash, kimya dawson, knitting, mariah carey, peace corps, peace corps volunteers, strange animal sightings, the moth, traditions, wind, windy day on December 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The blog world is all on fire with roasting chestnuts and yuletide wreathing and holiday crayoning, etc. Here in Armenia, the Peace Corps volunteers are all huddled in their houses around PC issued heaters, wearing night caps (or drinking them) and watching the Christmas movies they may or may not have remembered to bring with [...]
shnor havor
Posted in armenia, autumn, first day of school, holiday, landfamily, milestones, peace corps volunteers, tradition, tagged armenia, autumn, congratulations, family, first bell, first day of school, holidays, school on September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today is the first day of September. Remembering this, I woke up early, ate a bowl of cornflakes and went with camera in hand to congratulate my Armenian landsister on her first day of school. I had missed her and goofily said, “Shnor havor,” to my landdad as a consolation for missing his daughter’s departure. [...]
you know those times i’m talking about
Posted in holiday, spring chicken, summer, travel, tagged bad days, explosions, fourth of july, friends, July 4th, keanu reeves, mice, murphy's law, puppy, puppy care, whales on July 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
You know those times when everything seems to go wrong. It’s not just a day, but whole weeks at a time. Those sections of the year where things happen one-after-another, like you miss a flight and pay an of-course-highly-unfair price for a new ticket then you return home to find a mouse has eaten through [...]
sunny-side up
Posted in armenia, friends, holiday, landfamily, my town, peace corps volunteers, tagged difficulties, food, friends, mood, shelley duvall on June 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Eeeek…. that last post, geez what a downer. On the fair side: I really do feel like there’s a some ringing bell, some kind of constant droning reminder of things I find difficult about being a Peace Corps volunteer. On the other side: Self, lighten up already. Between the last post and now I have: [...]
iranian, mexican, tegan and sara in the city
Posted in armenian artists, food, holiday, music, yerevan on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written before about how much I love Yerevan sometimes. I was just in Yerevan again and experienced some old and new favorite things: Old: 1. Even though it has only been open a couple of months, and even though I don’t even live in this city, the fact that I’ve eaten at Yerevan’s Taco [...]
These are the most interesting photos I’ve taken so far. In a nearby village where our World Vision office does some work, they celebrated Military Day. Two schools formed teams of high form students and battled in games that included pull-ups, demonstrations of First-Aid knowledge, and gun reassembly. The day was fantastic actually, culminating in [...]
2009makers
Posted in armenia, friends, holiday, home, india, panama, peace corps volunteers, reading, slum, tradition, travel on January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tell me you forgot that I said I’d post a bunch of lists about the decade and the year and resolutions, etc. I still may post some of them, but a bunch of lists are not really on the way. However, what is on the way, in just a few sentences actually, is a list [...]
