I am organizing Health Walk 2001, to raise awareness for Breast Cancer. I guess I have never quite explained what I do here in Yerevan, have I? I help run a Mammography Center, the only diagnostic center in Armenia which deals with Breast Cancer. Since 1997 we have checked more than 25,000 women. Mrs. Rita Balian opened the center and is very dedicated to its success. Breast Cancer rates in Armenia are alarming. We are still trying to raise awareness and this walk is done every October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month here in Armenia.

My friends all seem surprised that we have health walks here! Why not? It's funny the questions I get. "Wow, you guys go to movies?" Well of course we do! We also have cotton candy, amusement parks and Jour Ashkhar, (Waterworld aka Raging Waters). We have night clubs which play house music, and we have bars that serve tequilla shots. We have a Chinese Restaurant, a Mexican Restaurant and if we leave it up to Ara Manoogian we may even open a Sushi Restaurant here in Yerevan. The only thing that I have not come across is those Oxygen Bars that I hear have opened on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, and I thank God for that.

Back to Health Walk 2001, I am working hard on getting the International Community here involved in our walk and it is amazing how many people I have met and how many wonderful people are out here doing wonderful things for our country. Today I went to go pitch our health walk to an International Women's Society at their monthly luncheon and met with a few non-Armenian women living and working here. I found a few gung-ho women willing to participate. We will be walking from our center (Plani Gloukh) to Opera Square where there will be a cultural perfomance by children in honor of their mothers. I will ask Raffi to help me post pictures of the walk (October 13).

So where are all my fellow loggers? What are you all up to?