"Congratulations on your April the 7th, " I am getting good at this. Yesterday I used it twice. April 7th being motherhood and beauty day. Even women and girls congratulate each other. Armenia is the only country, that I know of, that celebrates Mother's/women's day for a whole month from March the 8th to April the 7th.

On this happy occasion we invaded S. & K.'s house, gave flowers to S. and (in exchange) borrowed videos. One of the two/or three things we miss, English movies (the first being our families, dah). Unlike North America, in Armenia you don't need a cable subscription for watching good movies. There's a free TV channel, Cinemax, that shows Hollywood and Russian movies but only in Russian. English movies are dabbed; and when it's good dabbing (Arnold and Sandra speaking only Russian) we turn it off, but when it's very bad dabbing we watch it (we hear Arnold saying 'Sandra' in English and translator's voice repeating it in Russian 'Sandra'). It's hilarious and frustrating. The best movies are the ones that have English subtitles (for deaf).