Canadian Armenians have invaded Yerevan.
A large number of Canadian Armenian doctors and pharmacists have helped organize and participated in the Young Medics conference that was held in Yerevan over the past weekend. I bumped into many of these people from the medical field on the streets of Yerevan, to and from the trip to Shushi where we had all attended the open air concert of the National Chamber Orchestra and last night at a folk dance show. The dance group called Garni was from Montreal. They had over 30 dancers on stage headed by my former dance choreographer, Ludvig Bulghadarian, who was also a long time dancer of the Armenian National Dance Ensemble during the Soviet years. During this same event, I met up with 20 some kids from all over Canada who had arrived with a group called CYMA (Canadian Youth Mission Armenia) as well as 4 students from SAMA (Student Association for Medical Assistance) They were all from McGill University, Montreal.
Of course we have family members who are in town as well and another group of young adults arriving from Montreal with the AGBU Scouts to work on a development project in an orphanage.
I guess the saying goes �if you can�t go to Canada, let Canada come to you!�
What a summer this has turned out to be.
On another note, I was in Ayroum All day with the LCO group who are working with the locals to build a solar fruit dryer complex that will provide some 20 villagers with employment. They seemed to be having the time of their lives. I arrived at dinner time. After which, some of the volunteers went out to play ball with the kids who were waiting in front of the house, others were practicing their musical instruments while some others had climbed the fruit trees in the back yard to have fresh yummy �toot� (mulberries). By the way, this has got to be my favorite fruit of this season. I think I emptied an entire tree of its toot. Don�t worry they said, there�s more where that came from. Lucky them for spending an entire month in that pure environment!
A large number of Canadian Armenian doctors and pharmacists have helped organize and participated in the Young Medics conference that was held in Yerevan over the past weekend. I bumped into many of these people from the medical field on the streets of Yerevan, to and from the trip to Shushi where we had all attended the open air concert of the National Chamber Orchestra and last night at a folk dance show. The dance group called Garni was from Montreal. They had over 30 dancers on stage headed by my former dance choreographer, Ludvig Bulghadarian, who was also a long time dancer of the Armenian National Dance Ensemble during the Soviet years. During this same event, I met up with 20 some kids from all over Canada who had arrived with a group called CYMA (Canadian Youth Mission Armenia) as well as 4 students from SAMA (Student Association for Medical Assistance) They were all from McGill University, Montreal.
Of course we have family members who are in town as well and another group of young adults arriving from Montreal with the AGBU Scouts to work on a development project in an orphanage.
I guess the saying goes �if you can�t go to Canada, let Canada come to you!�
What a summer this has turned out to be.
On another note, I was in Ayroum All day with the LCO group who are working with the locals to build a solar fruit dryer complex that will provide some 20 villagers with employment. They seemed to be having the time of their lives. I arrived at dinner time. After which, some of the volunteers went out to play ball with the kids who were waiting in front of the house, others were practicing their musical instruments while some others had climbed the fruit trees in the back yard to have fresh yummy �toot� (mulberries). By the way, this has got to be my favorite fruit of this season. I think I emptied an entire tree of its toot. Don�t worry they said, there�s more where that came from. Lucky them for spending an entire month in that pure environment!
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