This morning I uploaded a new page, and for that matter a new kind of page, detailing the hike from Odzun to Horomayri to Kobayr. I hope to make at least a few if not many more of these available online so that people coming to Armenia will have more options than to just sit in a car all day being taken from place to place, and even giving them freedom from needing a guide at all for that matter. If you are coming to Armenia soon and want to do some nice hikes, try this one out for starters, and maybe by the time you get here I will have more online...
Yesterday was hectic as usual. I was doing some volunteer work preparing texts for foreign travel agents being given a free tour of Armenia, in order to promote it. I also made some progress on a potential business project I am working on, and bought a set of very nice satellite maps of Armenia. I did not have the cash on me to buy them and told the woman I was too lazy to go get it from home... so she ended up sending her nephew with me, saying that she was going to buy him an ice-cream anyways, so he may as well earn it. Well I had just stopped unsuccessfully at 3 ice-cream stands looking for a Melody ice-cream sandwhich which I was craving, and told her I would get him the ice-cream myself.
So we headed off and soon ran into an ice-cream stand that had my melody bar, and this (I'm guessing) 12yo kid goes for an ice-cream cup that comes with a toy. I wolf down my ice-cream and inconspiciously hold onto the wrapper then toss it into a bin we come across. He takes note and asks me if I held onto it just to find a bin, saying that they don't do that in Armenia. I explained that in America we don't have women who sweep the streets, and that even in Armenia I don't like to throw things on the street because until the next morning when they sweep it looks quite ugly. He decided to hold onto his wrapper till the next trash can too. Then this kid asks me if I think the girls here are attractive! I don't think I was checking out girls in that way at his age, at least not with adults around. He told me about his house which is being torn down to make space for the new blvd, and about his friends. He has tons of friends, but only 2 or 3 best friends. He told me he likes the Armenian saying, "Clothes are best new, and friends are best old". (old refers to how long you have had them, not their age)
Yesterday was hectic as usual. I was doing some volunteer work preparing texts for foreign travel agents being given a free tour of Armenia, in order to promote it. I also made some progress on a potential business project I am working on, and bought a set of very nice satellite maps of Armenia. I did not have the cash on me to buy them and told the woman I was too lazy to go get it from home... so she ended up sending her nephew with me, saying that she was going to buy him an ice-cream anyways, so he may as well earn it. Well I had just stopped unsuccessfully at 3 ice-cream stands looking for a Melody ice-cream sandwhich which I was craving, and told her I would get him the ice-cream myself.
So we headed off and soon ran into an ice-cream stand that had my melody bar, and this (I'm guessing) 12yo kid goes for an ice-cream cup that comes with a toy. I wolf down my ice-cream and inconspiciously hold onto the wrapper then toss it into a bin we come across. He takes note and asks me if I held onto it just to find a bin, saying that they don't do that in Armenia. I explained that in America we don't have women who sweep the streets, and that even in Armenia I don't like to throw things on the street because until the next morning when they sweep it looks quite ugly. He decided to hold onto his wrapper till the next trash can too. Then this kid asks me if I think the girls here are attractive! I don't think I was checking out girls in that way at his age, at least not with adults around. He told me about his house which is being torn down to make space for the new blvd, and about his friends. He has tons of friends, but only 2 or 3 best friends. He told me he likes the Armenian saying, "Clothes are best new, and friends are best old". (old refers to how long you have had them, not their age)
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