Yesterday we went to the African-American film week at Kino Moskva. As Madlene has mentioned the film of the day was �The Ghosts of Mississippi�. It�s a nice film; however I will not go on and tell the story. I will just talk about my opinion that why we had this type of film week sponsored by US Embassy to Armenia. First of all I am against to the whole idea, in Armenia we don�t have this specific type of problem and people rather not be introduced to such things because it might cause the opposite effect. I had a similar argument with my American English Composition teacher while studying in Cyprus. The whole teaching was based on racial discrimination and segregations, we had to write papers and read articles etc for a semester. It really got too annoying because the students, aggravated from the subject, might have easily taken the unwanted direction.
As usual the good prevailed and it was funny reminder for me to see the commercially happy faces at the end.
After the film we were in the main lobby when a young man fell from the stairs and lost his consciousness. I have tried to show first medical assistance by getting water, lifting his legs that the blood would flow to his head and rubbing his finger joints. Others were slapping his face and holding his tongue that he wouldn�t swallow it. He came back to his senses few times but switched back to unconscious. I realized that the people around has absolutely no basic medical readiness and my suggestion is that instead of learning military drills and that how to shoot other humans, it�s better to learn how to save lives. The medical help that came after our call was in total shambles, the paramedic instead of giving the first assistance on the spot, even after learning that the ill tumbled down from the stairs, ordered the people to take the body to the nearest sofa. I hope that he had no broken bones and especially his spine hasn�t been damaged, otherwise the carrying and the soft sofa would have intensified the possible injury.
Another issue is the identification of the injured, I am totally against the practice of identifying people as mere numbers, however it�s good to have some kind of ID that in such cases the person could be identified and the close relatives informed.
Today is a cold sunny day. I will probably stay at home and continue my work on one of my projects. I was at the housing material supply bazaar yesterday browsing, talking to and bargaining with various kinds of people. I am going to do this in weekly bases. It�s an important part of the life here to interact with people coming from different paths of life.
Ara, I just remembered, I have seen an ad for Antifreez for concrete (� Betoni Antifreeze�) on one of the shop windows, and it reminded me your log about your driveway. I am not sure about the product specifications but I can check it out.