The page is working again in Internet Explorer – sorry about that 🙂
This past week was spent with my new host family and at my new site in Noyemberian, which is in the northeast part of Armenia. I am working at a business NGO, Yerevak, who is very progressive and has a lot of great ideas. Some projects I might be working on include…
- Getting the town wireless internet (strange, I know…)
- Websites for several NGOs (non-profits)
- English and computer trainings/resource centers/school clubs
- Frisbee and basketball teams
While I’m looking forward to that, there’s been a couple of cool things we’ve been up to. A week ago we visited several monestaries near my site, Hoghpat and Shabat. Both are about 1,200 years old, and very amazing. I have posted several pictures, including those below…
Shabat:
Hoghbat:
The other big adventure was my taxi ride to Noyemberian. Our “taxi” consisted of a 55 year old man, an ’84 Honda Civic hatchback, and windy mountain roads. Lets just say I should have prepared my last will and testament, as he drove on the wrong side of the road half the time (reminded me of London) and past buses on blind curves. All was well, though, until we took a turn so fast that our rear-view mirror fell off. So we through it out the window and went on our way. Shat lav man, shat lav.
For those that are interested, here is our big group pic as well, from our first day in Yerevan:
And a shoutout to my sitemate Alex’s friend, Mary Beth. Berev!
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3 Responses:
July 23rd, 2006 at 6:31 am
Hey Kyle. I hope you are having lots of fun and not having lots of trouble getting adjusted and learning the language. I’m so jealous of the cheap bottles of vodka. Please investigate how much it would cost to ship me a crate. I love your pics, they are so beautiful!!! One problem tho, today internet explorer wouldn’t open your page, I could read the first paragraph, but not scroll down and see the pics… IE kept closing and sending error reports. So I downloaded firefox to view your page. No idea what’s wrong with that, hope your blog doesn’t have a virus. Love, Josie
July 28th, 2006 at 5:13 am
Thanks for the shoutout Kyle! (and tell alex I said hi 🙂 Good luck in Armenia and I’ll continue to stalk your blog…