Not too much exciting going on. Lots of new faces in town, many of which I am yet to meet. The AYF summer interns arrived this weekend, and the new AVC volunteers who are here for at least a year arrived a week ago and they are an energetic bright batch. I guess we don't discuss weather too much when it is consistently nice, but it has been great shorts weather for weeks now and sadly, most of the grass in Yerevan has dried out or is almost dry. Although spring is over in Yerevan, the higher elevations are still in the middle of it, and hopefully I will still be able to get some good trips in this summer.

I have started working at an Armenian crafts project which I will tell you all more about in the future, but it is going well and is a great project.

Saturday night was the annual (I guess) international DJ festival, which was held in Republic Square. It was really fun just watching the crowds, and once again I thought about how impossible this all seemed just 2 decades ago.

I have been trying to make sure my web site ranking remains high on the search engines so that people can find my site easily, and could use your help. If you have a website, please add a link to www.cilicia.com because then I get a better rank on google which counts how many web pages link to yours in order to decide how to rank your site. If you don't have a web site, but notice links page here or there that should include cilicia but don't then please let them know... even on non-Armenian sites which have relevant recipe, travel, font or other sections which could be enriched with links to an Armenian source. Thanks! Also if you start using the new message boards, it would be cool. They have been up for a few weeks now and work perfectly!