I like to clarify the talk about protesting in Armenia. Raffi is absolutely right, if we were talking in that context. I have seen students protest for not getting their stipends, several times and in thousands... Like Raffi also mentioned, students protested against ArmenTel. But what I ment by a protest was something different that this. I was talking about people taking a stand, like Raffi said, "refuse to pay". Send petitions to the govenment...Taking action, rather than only organizing protest walks in the city... Of course we can't even compare this to what happened in the Karabakh protests! Unfortunatly, as I believe, people here lack the ability to organize such protests... I do not see the poeple here stopping to pay the phone bill once it is pay per minute. I also talked with my colleagues at work about this, and their reaction helped me form this idea about how they are thinking.
Weekend Kef
A couple of days ago, Gor called me, asking me if I had plans for the weekend. I could tell that he was thinking of getting out of town. Gor organized a trip to gobeir before, 2 cars and 10 of us. So if it was what I was thinking... it would be the thing I needed, I thought. Saturday morning, the 5 of us in the car, heading towards Vanadzor, Gor's home town. I so wanted to meet his family, and it seemed that soon I'd meet them. In Vanadzor we were supposed to meet a bunch of friends, and head to a school for a basketball game. While looking for the school, we met 2 Americans, who were in Vanadzor for 3 weeks already... We offered them to join us for the game, and to my surprise, they were heading for a basketball game themselves! We played basketball for about 2 hours of so.. it was great. Then went for some drinks and by 6 PM we were ready for shopping. That's right, shopping for our khorovatz (barbecue.) We got everything we needed, went to Gor's place to meet with his parents and have some stuff we were missing for the perfect khorovatz. The rest of the guys joined us in another car. We were heading towards a nearby village, where one of Gor's friends had a summer house... After a 10 minute drive we were there. The weather was chill. We lit the fire, and started preparing the salad, and the meat for the khorovatz. In a couple of hours the 9 of us were drinking and eating...
To be continued...
Weekend Kef
A couple of days ago, Gor called me, asking me if I had plans for the weekend. I could tell that he was thinking of getting out of town. Gor organized a trip to gobeir before, 2 cars and 10 of us. So if it was what I was thinking... it would be the thing I needed, I thought. Saturday morning, the 5 of us in the car, heading towards Vanadzor, Gor's home town. I so wanted to meet his family, and it seemed that soon I'd meet them. In Vanadzor we were supposed to meet a bunch of friends, and head to a school for a basketball game. While looking for the school, we met 2 Americans, who were in Vanadzor for 3 weeks already... We offered them to join us for the game, and to my surprise, they were heading for a basketball game themselves! We played basketball for about 2 hours of so.. it was great. Then went for some drinks and by 6 PM we were ready for shopping. That's right, shopping for our khorovatz (barbecue.) We got everything we needed, went to Gor's place to meet with his parents and have some stuff we were missing for the perfect khorovatz. The rest of the guys joined us in another car. We were heading towards a nearby village, where one of Gor's friends had a summer house... After a 10 minute drive we were there. The weather was chill. We lit the fire, and started preparing the salad, and the meat for the khorovatz. In a couple of hours the 9 of us were drinking and eating...
To be continued...
posted by Ashod at 1:39 PM
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