So much has happened in the past week, I cannot remember all the events. Let�s see I spent Friday night with a couple of friends for a quiet dinner, which was really nice for a change. Saturday was wasted on trying to fix things in the apartment such as the fridge, trying to get a handyman to do a couple of things around the flat. It is so difficult to mind a reliable handyman, he turns up an hour late, then he goes to buy some of the material required for the job, turns up 2 hours later reeking of alcohol and the job cannot be done since the driller isn�t working.
After wasting the whole day, I decided to attend the soccer match between Armenia and Ukraine. What an atmosphere the stadium was in the last 20 minutes where our cheering (I think) produced 2 goals bringing the final score line to 2-2. The friends I went with had their faces painted and the flags and a dhol so we were a loud bunch and we later celebrated our good fortune with Kilikia beer.
Sunday was fantastic, we couldn�t have asked for better weather. We (Arthur, Madlene, Carlos and I) started off with breakfast, then headed off to Garni and Geghard. Madlene and Arthur�s summer house in Garni is great with a beautiful garden. We stacked up bags and bags full of fresh fruit to bring back to Yerevan, handpicked off the trees. We hurried back to attend a concert given by Andy, an Iranian Armenian and I�m told that bus loads have come to watch the concert from Iran since live music is forbidden. It would have been a very special event for those people. As for me well it was first and last time experience.
Today I attended a speech given by Francesco Frangialli president of WTO (World Tourism Organization). Once he finished his speech and his offsider was going to commence the powerpoint presentation in Russian, a person in the audience (I won�t mention any names but the person is an influential person) spoke up as to why the presentation was in Russian? Thank God for that person sticking to their guns saying that they thought they were in Armenia and why couldn�t the presentation be in Armenian? The presenter says that Russian is one of the 4 languages recognized by WTO? Can you believe it? How about English mate since this is a tourism talk?
Anyway it all went well after much discussion and to end his presentation he showed 3 websites for tourism, one of them being none other than the famous Cilicia site!!
Ok so as soon as the handyman is done with his job here while I�m typing this, I will go and visit my cousins who arrived from Toronto this morning. Sorry this log is repeating Madlene�s.
After wasting the whole day, I decided to attend the soccer match between Armenia and Ukraine. What an atmosphere the stadium was in the last 20 minutes where our cheering (I think) produced 2 goals bringing the final score line to 2-2. The friends I went with had their faces painted and the flags and a dhol so we were a loud bunch and we later celebrated our good fortune with Kilikia beer.
Sunday was fantastic, we couldn�t have asked for better weather. We (Arthur, Madlene, Carlos and I) started off with breakfast, then headed off to Garni and Geghard. Madlene and Arthur�s summer house in Garni is great with a beautiful garden. We stacked up bags and bags full of fresh fruit to bring back to Yerevan, handpicked off the trees. We hurried back to attend a concert given by Andy, an Iranian Armenian and I�m told that bus loads have come to watch the concert from Iran since live music is forbidden. It would have been a very special event for those people. As for me well it was first and last time experience.
Today I attended a speech given by Francesco Frangialli president of WTO (World Tourism Organization). Once he finished his speech and his offsider was going to commence the powerpoint presentation in Russian, a person in the audience (I won�t mention any names but the person is an influential person) spoke up as to why the presentation was in Russian? Thank God for that person sticking to their guns saying that they thought they were in Armenia and why couldn�t the presentation be in Armenian? The presenter says that Russian is one of the 4 languages recognized by WTO? Can you believe it? How about English mate since this is a tourism talk?
Anyway it all went well after much discussion and to end his presentation he showed 3 websites for tourism, one of them being none other than the famous Cilicia site!!
Ok so as soon as the handyman is done with his job here while I�m typing this, I will go and visit my cousins who arrived from Toronto this morning. Sorry this log is repeating Madlene�s.
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