And what have I done for the past week? Precious little! Just been going to work, wandering aimlessly, spiking Madeline's coke with petrol (just kidding!!!!) and getting some stuff in order around the house. It seems like the summer is flying by, and people are pouring in and out, but I am not getting out of town enough. I am beginning to miss the days in '99 when I had a car and could just up and get out of town whenever I felt like it...
Zabel gets back from Boston in a few days and will be bringing lots of goodies as well. That is gonna be fantastic. I have some surprises for her too, so it is going to be a fun homecoming.
One quality of life improvement that I have really been enjoying this past week has been the screening of calls. I completely stopped answering my telephone, and let the answering machine get it even if I am home. It has been fantastic! So many phone calls you get in Armenia are wrong numbers, and incredibly, many times these people will ask who YOU are instead of telling you who they are looking for. Answering machines are still a novelty in Armenia, and therefore some of the messages you get are hilarious. People repeating "Alo?" again and again, or having a discussion with someone next to them about what this message could mean... it quite frankly surprises me since everyone here must have seen loads of movies with people waiting for the beep to leave a message, and then other people checking their messages. I don't know why, but in the past I always felt obligated to answer my phone... I have to thank Kristi for getting me past this.
I would also once again like to mention what a beautiful summer we are having. It hardly ever hits 100. This morning is nice and cool for instance. The night is falling much sooner already though and they have not finished one single side of one single block of sidewalk they have torn up. In fact they are tearing up new streets as well. Mashdots (Prospect) is the latest victim, and in fact they are widening the street as well at the expense of some of the green zone on the sides. It's too bad. I just hope that they finish all their work before winter because at this rate it is quite questionable. It is one thing to walk through unpaved dirt and mud in the summer fall, another altogether to walk through ice covered ground in the winter...
Zabel gets back from Boston in a few days and will be bringing lots of goodies as well. That is gonna be fantastic. I have some surprises for her too, so it is going to be a fun homecoming.
One quality of life improvement that I have really been enjoying this past week has been the screening of calls. I completely stopped answering my telephone, and let the answering machine get it even if I am home. It has been fantastic! So many phone calls you get in Armenia are wrong numbers, and incredibly, many times these people will ask who YOU are instead of telling you who they are looking for. Answering machines are still a novelty in Armenia, and therefore some of the messages you get are hilarious. People repeating "Alo?" again and again, or having a discussion with someone next to them about what this message could mean... it quite frankly surprises me since everyone here must have seen loads of movies with people waiting for the beep to leave a message, and then other people checking their messages. I don't know why, but in the past I always felt obligated to answer my phone... I have to thank Kristi for getting me past this.
I would also once again like to mention what a beautiful summer we are having. It hardly ever hits 100. This morning is nice and cool for instance. The night is falling much sooner already though and they have not finished one single side of one single block of sidewalk they have torn up. In fact they are tearing up new streets as well. Mashdots (Prospect) is the latest victim, and in fact they are widening the street as well at the expense of some of the green zone on the sides. It's too bad. I just hope that they finish all their work before winter because at this rate it is quite questionable. It is one thing to walk through unpaved dirt and mud in the summer fall, another altogether to walk through ice covered ground in the winter...
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