After a relaxing breakfast with friends, I went home to rest since Sunday is my only day off. So while I was in bed with a headache, my friend called me from yet another Demirchian march and told me there were thousands of people rallying and he was amongst them taking pictures. I just couldn�t get out of bed and knew that I was missing out on a great experience

But opportunity came knocking again, when I met my girlfriend in the afternoon. We saw the crowd coming up Nalbandian Street and after running into another friend who was also taking pictures, we ran up to my girlfriend�s house to have a better view. To say the least it was amazing, somehow the crowd saw us on the balcony and we were cheering them on while they were chanting De mir chian, De mir chian, it was actually more like egging them on to chant and raise their voices. The march was peaceful as they turned onto Sayat Nova and the car that was in the lead (an old Soviet car) with some blokes on top of it, broke down and had to be pushed, it was rather quite funny.

I just kept hoping that the camera crew wouldn�t point up to see what the crowd was looking at and didn�t particularly want to see my face on TV. I have to keep a low key since I�ll be an OSCE observer for round 2 elections the following week, yes the British Embassy called me again and this time I accepted. So after a briefing next Monday for a few hours, I�ll be off on Wednesday to observe. Ah this was democracy in the making, it was a good day. My only hope is that these marches or rallies don�t turn into violence.