I have spent most of the past week in Yerevan, it was very relaxed, just doing some errands, spending time with my boyfriend. We usually ended up at Lolik, a small eating place between Moskovyan and Prospekt that has become the hangout of part of the Middle-Eastern Diaspora Armenians living in Yerevan. I handed in my application for a visa at OVIR, for which I needed three tries and every time the OVIR-people told me I needed to bring a different paper or fill in a different form (or fill it in in Armenian instead of English....). The fourth time I got angry and that seemed to help. ;-) Some people are surprised I managed to hand in my application without giving money to speed things up a bit...

There has been a sudden and major change in my New Year's plans. My (Lebanese-Armenian) boyfriend is going to Lebanon for three months and I decided to join him for a month or so. We're leaving early Friday morning and will arrive in Beirut the same day about midday. So instead of in Armenia, I will be celebrating New Year in Lebanon.