it is cold... i just remembered how cold it gets here in yerevan. ouch.
sorry i have not logged, i have major internet problems at home and at work.
i have so many things to say that i think i will number them so i do not forget.
1. DENTISTRY IN ARMENIA: do it... i am amazed. I have had toothaches for a long time now and have not been to a dentist since I lived in New York well over a year ago. I was avoiding dentistry here and thought it would be similar to the doctor's visits i have had and was scared... just thinking I will wait till I get back to Los Angeles. I mentioned my tooth hurts to Uncle Varooj and he referred me to a dentist. I told him that I would wait till I got to LA and he started to scream. He said that dentistry was amazing here... just as advanced, if not more. then i started to notice that tourists were coming here and having dental work done. was this for real? so i made an appointment to go see Uncle Varooj's dentist and thought I would get a cleaning and x-rays and see what happens. IT WAS AMAZING. she is just as good if not better than any dentist i have been to in the states. good news is that it is cheap and it is professional and i recommend it to anyone... find out prices... you may be able to get your teeth worked on in armenia, pay for your airfare and hotel and still save tons of money. the bad news is that i have a few cavities. i just had two filled yesterday and i get to go back for one more tomorrow. it was just as it is in the states... first she numbed my gum with bubble-gum gel and then i did not feel the needle and i got a filling that looks like my tooth exactly and a few hours later when all my numbness was gone... i felt great. the difference was that for two fillings i paid 40 dollars (this is unheard of in the states) GO ARMENIA! if you need a referral, my dentist was superb.
2. i know this is a beaten subject but yesterday you could see every single rock of ararat. it was amazing. locals that usually tell me... you look at ararat... we have seen it all our lives were FLOORED. i was floored. i am still to this day amazed that this historic mountain is part of my everyday life and inspires me everyday... it has not become old for me... it is still soo amazing everytime i look at it.
3. last night arthur and i really wanted to go to a play but it was already 8 pm and most of the theatres are closed (because of the amazing generocity of mr. kerkorian)_and so we missed all the shows that are left. so we settled on a movie instead. of course we do not have a choice of what movie we want to see because there is only one playing a night in english. we went to kino nairi and it was maverick... i wasn't too excited but we had no choice. we ended up getting tickets and watching ... maverick. i have to admit mel gibson is a cutie and is enjoyable even when the movie is a bit of a ... disaster. there were four of us in the entire theatre... they were professors at aua and were from bali... and so it was amazing to find that one of them spoke malay and we asked him to translate the words that arthur uses in his new song which has a sound byte of a malay woman speaking. he promised to email us after he heard the song and walked away with arthur's cd... i am curious to find out what i am wording in our new music video.
4. arthur's new exercise plan is going great. he goes to yerevan's gorge everyday for a few hours for some natural exercising. yesterday i decided to go with him. although his workout suffered because i can do nothing but walk at a fast pace while i complain... but he said it was fun having me in his morning setting. the place was amazing... the nature was soo beautiful. we walked by a train station that used to house young soviet's called pioneers. it had become an abandoned building with a kiddy train that seemed forever parked. we walked around the river and i saw all the exercising crew doing their best to stay in shape. since it is not a gym people were using anything to stay fit. i actually saw a guy running laps with an old tire strapped around his waist by a rope... he was running and the old tire was dragging behind him... it must work because he sure looked great. boxers were boxing the air, arthur was doing situps and counting and i was enioying this open air, no equipment gym full of people who are creative and inventive.
5. today i will do some fall cleaning here at the office before the cold sets in.. and people become much slower.
sorry i have not logged, i have major internet problems at home and at work.
i have so many things to say that i think i will number them so i do not forget.
1. DENTISTRY IN ARMENIA: do it... i am amazed. I have had toothaches for a long time now and have not been to a dentist since I lived in New York well over a year ago. I was avoiding dentistry here and thought it would be similar to the doctor's visits i have had and was scared... just thinking I will wait till I get back to Los Angeles. I mentioned my tooth hurts to Uncle Varooj and he referred me to a dentist. I told him that I would wait till I got to LA and he started to scream. He said that dentistry was amazing here... just as advanced, if not more. then i started to notice that tourists were coming here and having dental work done. was this for real? so i made an appointment to go see Uncle Varooj's dentist and thought I would get a cleaning and x-rays and see what happens. IT WAS AMAZING. she is just as good if not better than any dentist i have been to in the states. good news is that it is cheap and it is professional and i recommend it to anyone... find out prices... you may be able to get your teeth worked on in armenia, pay for your airfare and hotel and still save tons of money. the bad news is that i have a few cavities. i just had two filled yesterday and i get to go back for one more tomorrow. it was just as it is in the states... first she numbed my gum with bubble-gum gel and then i did not feel the needle and i got a filling that looks like my tooth exactly and a few hours later when all my numbness was gone... i felt great. the difference was that for two fillings i paid 40 dollars (this is unheard of in the states) GO ARMENIA! if you need a referral, my dentist was superb.
2. i know this is a beaten subject but yesterday you could see every single rock of ararat. it was amazing. locals that usually tell me... you look at ararat... we have seen it all our lives were FLOORED. i was floored. i am still to this day amazed that this historic mountain is part of my everyday life and inspires me everyday... it has not become old for me... it is still soo amazing everytime i look at it.
3. last night arthur and i really wanted to go to a play but it was already 8 pm and most of the theatres are closed (because of the amazing generocity of mr. kerkorian)_and so we missed all the shows that are left. so we settled on a movie instead. of course we do not have a choice of what movie we want to see because there is only one playing a night in english. we went to kino nairi and it was maverick... i wasn't too excited but we had no choice. we ended up getting tickets and watching ... maverick. i have to admit mel gibson is a cutie and is enjoyable even when the movie is a bit of a ... disaster. there were four of us in the entire theatre... they were professors at aua and were from bali... and so it was amazing to find that one of them spoke malay and we asked him to translate the words that arthur uses in his new song which has a sound byte of a malay woman speaking. he promised to email us after he heard the song and walked away with arthur's cd... i am curious to find out what i am wording in our new music video.
4. arthur's new exercise plan is going great. he goes to yerevan's gorge everyday for a few hours for some natural exercising. yesterday i decided to go with him. although his workout suffered because i can do nothing but walk at a fast pace while i complain... but he said it was fun having me in his morning setting. the place was amazing... the nature was soo beautiful. we walked by a train station that used to house young soviet's called pioneers. it had become an abandoned building with a kiddy train that seemed forever parked. we walked around the river and i saw all the exercising crew doing their best to stay in shape. since it is not a gym people were using anything to stay fit. i actually saw a guy running laps with an old tire strapped around his waist by a rope... he was running and the old tire was dragging behind him... it must work because he sure looked great. boxers were boxing the air, arthur was doing situps and counting and i was enioying this open air, no equipment gym full of people who are creative and inventive.
5. today i will do some fall cleaning here at the office before the cold sets in.. and people become much slower.
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