AÑO NUEVO, ¿VIDA NUEVA?

(New Year, New Life?)

So...it´s 2002. As a number we call this year as CAPICUA year (Palindrome year) It is said that the palindrome years are the lucky ones. What´s new, is that this will be the last palindrome year of our lives.(next Capicúa year will be the year 2112...faaar away!)
Today i asked to an armenian guy the typical "Inch ga, chi ga?" (What´s new?) and he cleverly answered me "Inch ga? Kogh! , Inch chi ga? Tram...Well, in fact Argentina cried a lot. But now started to clean up their tears to look around to start a new era. We had five different president on the last fiveteen days!. One Argentinian Peso is no longer equal to One US Dollar. Something is changing. We have the opportunite as a country to make a huge jump or to sunk forever.
On the other Tserk (hand), the Diario Armenia´s (Armenia TERT) birthday has been celebrated. 70 years of journalism in the diaspora. It is the main Tert in Argentina and maybe in whole South America. (There other Terts and Magazines in Buenos Aires, leave it for another Log) If you want to visit or if you can read in spanish you can try this adress http://www.diarioarmenia.com.ar
In a slow way the armenian clubs start to receive people. The Club of San Isidro on the north area of Buenos Aires is smaller but charmer to pass a great day playing soccer or eating a nice Shish Kebab. The other club, is the huge Club of HOMENETMEN in Ramos Mejía a bit far on the West of Buenos Aires. It´s the biggest armenian club but it is in a crisis as all the armenian institutions. There is a lack of people everywhere at the kaghut.
I want to tell you something about the sunny sundays on the clubs. I think is related to the picnic old style of passing the day and the Anatolian celebrations of our grand parents. I read this verse of the panasdeghdzuhi Helene Pilibosian of Watertown, US.: "The smoke from shish kebab cooking floats toward the dancers, as a graceful as a soloist". Then i tought about the mystical smell of shish kebab cooking. That smell means JOY, HAPPINESS, CELEBRATION, it is s total symbol of the Anatolian and Cilician Armenian celebration and a symbol of the whole Diaspora. The smell of shish kebab it doesn´t mean a vigil it means that the day is sunny, that our muscles are ready to dance or run behind a soccer ball or just that for at least that moment our raped armenia is being recreated. So start cooking... ;-)
Hey! i forget to tell you...Last week at night i was staring at the LONELY PLANET programme of the channel people and arts. That TV programme is about a guy called IAN WRIGHT that travel everywhere around the world. I put to record the programe because it was about Armenia and Georgia. The Armenian part was short but they told to whole South America about the Dzidzernagapert and the Armenian Genocide.
O.K. (0 killed), i saw the news that the armenian employment is growing, good for that! I hope the number of population will grow soon as well.
On the next log i´ll tell you about one of the new methods to catch the armenian young to become nearer to Armenia has the community here: the Woodstockian.

SALUDOS AMIGOS. A big hug to my partner-loggers in this site and to my diasporan fellows at Erevan (Raffí, Zabel, Mousalertsi Hajian and Lena)