I'm here to dilute the number of American spiurkahay on the log.....so here goes.......half Armenian, half northern-irish and I live in England, studying for a masters in Electronic Engineering at Cambridge University. Having read the logs for a few months, I'm now understanding how hard it is to write them!

I've just spent my second summer in Hayastan working for two months and having an amazing time out there meeting lots of fantastic people and enjoying the life and surroundings. I actually went on one of Raffi and Ashod's adventures into the Lori outback, and an illegal excursion into Georgia.......spectacular scenary, really hospitable villagers and really amusing!

Prior to this recent summer, I had been to Hayastan once for five weeks the previous summer and had travelled extensively around most of it, including a most memorable trip to Artsakh with a short-arse (actually, I think they all are...) egyptian Armenian, Razmig, who won't be reading this anyway! Having no knowledge of the language I spent some time at the AUA (American University of Armenia) learning the basics, and am now supposedly quite funny to listen to and even funnier to look at as I'm half Armenian but look very very English...

I'm going to try and get Raffi to post some of my photos of Hayastan this past summer.