What have I done for the past week? Well Taleen the Aussie girl left after spending 3 months in Hayastan, the Aussies who were staying with me have left and my cousin Nadine who was visiting from Rome has left. You can all imagine the farewells that we�ve been having for all those who have left, including our dear Arsineh.

So I�m free for a week until another cousin arrives from Toronto on Friday and 2 more in September. So many new arrivals too, just this week I met 2 guys half Armenian who are visiting. One�s from Boston and is visiting for 3 weeks and the other is from Mexico who will be studying Armenian for the next 5 months. Neither can speak Armenian but are so willing to learn, it�s great. The Mexican tells me there are 500 Armenians in his country.

Also the second lot of the Volunteers have arrived and are going through their training session including Rhoda from the UK and my distant relative from London.

I went to water world today to cool off., mind you there won�t be too many more weekends before the cool weather starts. I know that I�ll be spending another winter here so I�m making the most of it while it lasts. All for now and oh I start my job on Monday!