19 days...
For the past couple of weeks I've wanted to come and blog about all that's happening, but this whole google vs. blogger thing messed me up, because I forgot not only my username, but my password too when I switched... lol I know.. pathetic! :) But I finally had time to sit down and fix it...
So in 19 days I'll be on way to Armenia, one way ticket in hand. Actually, I recommend others try this too, as it felt GREAT to pay less than $800 for a ticket to Armenia (for once!). hehe No really though, for the past few weeks I've been trying very hard to tie up all my loose ends, get things in order, pack and head out!
The more time I spend going through my room, the garage.. and yes, my trunk -- the more I realize how much STUFF I have! I've packed, unpacked and repacked several times already. I find it difficult to decide what I definitely need, maybe would need, and could do without. Finally I started taping up the boxes as I was done packing, so that I wouldn't open them up again! lol As I stood back and saw my 3 boxes of clothes, 2 boxes of books and teaching materials, and 2 boxes of random things I'll need for the house (including some of my grandma's crochet "ojeed" stuff), I couldn't help to think I might be overdoing it... I don't know. I could probably eliminate most of the clothes, but since I have NO idea what kind of job I'll find, I don't know which "genre" of clothes is more necessary. So ya... pretty much everything is coming. :)
During this time, the reaction I receive from people when they find out I'm moving to Armenia is kind of disappointing. Although I am happy that people are concerned for my well-being, it's just not nice to keep hearing the same thing--- that I'm making a mistake, there is no future there, I don't know what it's like to live there-it won't be like my short trips, no one will be able to succeed there with the current circumstances, etc. etc. etc. I'm sure a good number of people on the repat page have all heard this too.
What is great, however.. is the FEW people (and I mean FEWWWWWWW) who are supportive and who believe that our place is truly in our homeland, even if it means we won't have water from 7am to 7pm. ;) When I think about it, sure it's frustrating to not be able to flush your toilet, wash your face, etc., --and really, not everyone can handle it. But people like Raffi K. wouldn't be in Armenia, if the other reasons for living there didn't "trump" water, toilets and bad driving.
Well, back to packing and cleaning...
TSUH! :)~
So in 19 days I'll be on way to Armenia, one way ticket in hand. Actually, I recommend others try this too, as it felt GREAT to pay less than $800 for a ticket to Armenia (for once!). hehe No really though, for the past few weeks I've been trying very hard to tie up all my loose ends, get things in order, pack and head out!
The more time I spend going through my room, the garage.. and yes, my trunk -- the more I realize how much STUFF I have! I've packed, unpacked and repacked several times already. I find it difficult to decide what I definitely need, maybe would need, and could do without. Finally I started taping up the boxes as I was done packing, so that I wouldn't open them up again! lol As I stood back and saw my 3 boxes of clothes, 2 boxes of books and teaching materials, and 2 boxes of random things I'll need for the house (including some of my grandma's crochet "ojeed" stuff), I couldn't help to think I might be overdoing it... I don't know. I could probably eliminate most of the clothes, but since I have NO idea what kind of job I'll find, I don't know which "genre" of clothes is more necessary. So ya... pretty much everything is coming. :)
During this time, the reaction I receive from people when they find out I'm moving to Armenia is kind of disappointing. Although I am happy that people are concerned for my well-being, it's just not nice to keep hearing the same thing--- that I'm making a mistake, there is no future there, I don't know what it's like to live there-it won't be like my short trips, no one will be able to succeed there with the current circumstances, etc. etc. etc. I'm sure a good number of people on the repat page have all heard this too.
What is great, however.. is the FEW people (and I mean FEWWWWWWW) who are supportive and who believe that our place is truly in our homeland, even if it means we won't have water from 7am to 7pm. ;) When I think about it, sure it's frustrating to not be able to flush your toilet, wash your face, etc., --and really, not everyone can handle it. But people like Raffi K. wouldn't be in Armenia, if the other reasons for living there didn't "trump" water, toilets and bad driving.
Well, back to packing and cleaning...
TSUH! :)~
posted by shooosh at 2:48 AM
5 Comments:
Ms. Shooshig, I'm not sure you remember me (I was in Nairy's -- Lara/Vana's sister's -- graduating class at an Armenian school. I'm suer you know what I'm talking about.)
Nevermind those nouveau-riche Armenian pessimists from Los Angeles who think that helping or supporting Armenia amounts to donating fifty dollars a year in the telethon and visiting once a decade, if at all. The kind who can name you every city and town in Lebanon, Syria, Russia or, dare I say it, Turkey, yet the only city in Armenia they might know is Yerevan. It's a shame.
I say go for it. Maybe you'll start a trend. Maybe the antsnaser Armenians of L.A. will learn that their homeland is not somewhere in the Bekaa Valley or downtown Aleppo. Maybe they'll learn that they are not Lebanese-Armenians, Syrian-Armenians or Turkish-Armenians (the very definition of an oxymoron) -- they are Armenians and their country is Armenia with Yerevan as its capital.
Anonymous, you are totally right!! I hate it when people say they're Lebanese Armenian, Persian Armenian, etc.... etc.... Do people even understand what that translates to? That means they are half Lebanese/Persian and the other half Armenian. I think the correct term Armenian outside of Armenia should just use Armenian Born in Lebanon/Iran/Iraq/Syria etc.... etc...
As for you Shoosh, you are going to be one of the pioneers to move to Armenia. I think it's fabulous that you are leaving Robotic America and moving back to the motherland. By people making such flabbergasting comments about moving back, all they're doing is turning their back on Armenia. Why not contribute to making Armenia a great place to live or move to.
Soon, I hope, I will be making that transition of moving to Armenia......
I must say, I almost never get that negative response anymore. Things have changed, quality of life is about many things (not just water, which eventually will be fixed), and a lot of people see this.
I can't think of many people in LA who know better than you what they'd be experiencing here if they moved, so these closed minded folk just need another 5 years before they can see retrospectively what is going on...
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Good luck Miss, yev lriv HATCHO ! :o)
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